Shucking Oysters: Lord Help Us
By Alex Allen
“So many people have asked me over the last week why we would go to a place like Canada. My answer is simple: We are called to worship in the places needing the greatest breakthrough. God is sending us and now is the time for us to bring revival north to Canada! May God move this weekend and awaken a nation that DESPERATELY needs revival!” – Sean Feucht
Sean Feucht, the 41-year-old far-right US Christian singer-songwriter and preacher, is trying to spread his gospel across Canada with his “Let Us Worship: Revive in ’25 Tour.” The tour, however, has not been without controversy. Feucht, among other things, is a passionate supporter of Donald Trump and shares the same “Christian” values on abortion, gender, and the LGBTQIA2-S community.
While Feucht has said he believes in Black Lives Matter, he has publicly called the movement “shady” and a “fraud,” and that “we can’t let our God-given empathy get hijacked by a dark movement with hidden agendas.” Last year, Feucht referred to Pride Month as a time to discover “which people, businesses, influencers, corporations and ministries have sold their soul to a demonic agenda seeking to destroy our culture and pervert our children.”
Feucht’s divine family kingdom encompasses: Burn 24-7, a worship and prayer movement; Light A Candle, a missions and compassion “movement bringing light, hope, healing, and tangible love to the hardest, darkest, and most isolated places of the earth;” Hold the Line, “a movement seeking to engage the church and young people to inform, educate, and inspire the next generation of leaders to stand for what is right in the governmental arena;” and Let Us Worship, a movement across America (and Canada) gathering believers to worship and pray boldly for revival.
Halifax, Charlottetown, Quebec City, Moncton, Gatineau and Vaughn all cancelled Feucht’s shows due to concerns over public safety. Yet, that did not stop organizers finding other locations: a farmer’s field outside Halifax and a Spanish evangelical church in Montreal (the city later levied a $2,500 fine against the church for not having the required permit). Meanwhile, Saskatoon is on the fence and Edmonton is reviewing their application. West Kelowna and what was to be the finale August 24 in Abbotsford, have now been cancelled.
In less than 10 years since signing a music recording deal with Bethel Music, a multi-million-dollar nonprofit Christian music label, Feucht, with flowing Robert Plant locks, is perhaps the greatest success story to come out of the Bethel machine when it comes to, not only his rise to stardom, but also the way he has transformed himself into a money machine.
Married to his high school sweetheart, Kate, with four children: Keturah, Malachi, Ezra, and Zion, Feucht’s “lifelong quest and dream is to witness a generation of burning hearts arise across the nations of the world with renewed faith, vision, and sacrificial pursuit of the Presence of God.” Shawn Schwaller noted, “as it turns out, working for God, in Sean Feucht’s world, means making a lot of cash and becoming a real estate tycoon.” It’s the prosperity gospel. Forget about faith. If you have lots of money, then God has blessed you, and if God has blessed you, then you are living a Godly life.
Feucht “personally” owns over 10 properties in California, Montana and Pennsylvania. Three are worth more than $4 million. One in Redding, has a deluxe two-story man-cave outbuilding filled with thousands of dollars’ worth of trophy game animals Feucht has killed around the world. The other seven properties in Pennsylvania, operate as rentals and are estimated at over $5 million. He also owns two Airbnb cabins – both double the going rate – in Bigfork, Montana, one renting at $750 a night and the other $600 a night.
Sean Feucht Ministries Inc., the “business,” owns properties in California and DC that are classified as tax-exempt “parsonages.” One on Capitol Hill known as “Camp Elah,” was purchased for $1 million in 2022 and another in San Juan Capistrano, California was purchased for over $3 million in 2024.
Like so many right-wing Christian organizations, money and godliness soon become corrupt. Last month, five of Feucht’s employees called for an independent investigation into their boss’s financial indiscretions. They allege that he has continually underpaid staff, and diverted donations to his own properties. They also claim he has “longstanding patterns of manipulation, exaggeration, control, lying, gas lighting, and spiritual and emotional abuse.” Feucht apparently regularly used business credit cards for personal expenses, diverted donations to his accounts, and even used ministry funds to rent his cabin in Montana for a ministry board meeting. Sound familiar?
Back in Canada, BC Conservative politicians are questioning civic actions. Chilliwack North MLA Heather Maahs said the cancellation of the show in Abbotsford raises “serious concerns” around freedom of expression. She said that expressing perspectives based on faith, even if unpopular for some, does not constitute hate speech. Langley-Abbotsford MLA Harman Bhangu wrote in a letter to the mayor and council, calling their “public safety” justification “troubling.” His sentiments were shared by the very questionable OneBC party, MLAs Dallas Brodie and Tara Armstrong, who launched a petition calling for the permit to be reinstated, with Armstrong sharing that “Christianity is not a crime.”
Federal Conservatives have also chimed in, with MP Jamil Jivani sending a motion to the House of Commons heritage committee to study freedom to worship in Canada. Some civil liberties legal advocacy groups have said they are preparing actions to back Feucht over the cancellations.
James Turk, Director of the Centre for Free Expression at Toronto Metropolitan University, perhaps said it best: “The price of democracy is we’re always exposed to divergent views, some of which we love, some of which we hate.” Whether we need salvation or not, Feucht will continue building his wealth, all made possible through mindless donations, myriad tax loopholes, and, of course, good old Christian values. Hallelujah.
