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What Happened To The Remnant Fellowship Church Cult After Gwen Shamblin Lara's Death?

The philosophy struck a chord with people. The Remnant Fellowship had around 1,500 members in 150 worldwide congregations when Gwen Shamblin Lara died, according to the Tennessean. The Remnant Fellowship's website says the church has 120 leaders who serve as deacons, shepherds, ministry leaders, and ministry assistants. Photographs on the church's website and its Instagram page have copious images of slender people, often in coordinated clothing with plastered on smiles.

In the months since the plane crash, Gwen's adult children, Elizabeth Shamblin Hannah and Michael Shamblin, took over top leadership of her church. Elizabeth has a penchant for writing certain words in all caps. On her webpage, she shares how much she and her family "LOVE" God and "LOVE to get on their knees and pray every morning and night," writing the church is "a place where God would get to rule, Leaders are PURE, and where Husbands are kind like Christ, women are submissive, and children obey their parents and find HAPPINESS in doing so ... A place where we could lay down our addictions and worldly desires and be FREE to love only God."

Michael says on his webpage that he and his wife's "lives have changed dramatically because of the Weigh Down/Remnant teachings, including both of us having lost weight and laid down addictions to substances, etc., as well as numerous internal/heart changes." He invites people to "check it out" to be "amazed by what God has done!"

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Abbie Anker

Update: 2024-05-22