Creflo Dollar

==Career==
Dollar began developing World Changers Ministries Christian Center in 1986.<ref name=about /> He held the church's first worship service in the cafeteria of Kathleen Mitchell Elementary School in College Park, with eight people in attendance. He later renamed the ministry World Changers Church International (WCCI), and the congregation moved from the cafeteria to a dedicated chapel. Four services were held each Sunday, and Creflo added a weekly radio broadcast and the television show ''[[Changing Your World]]''.

On December 24, 1995, WCCI moved into its present location, the 8,500-seat facility known as the World Dome. The church has said that the nearly $20 million World Dome was built without any bank financing.<ref>[http://www.worldchangerschurchnewyork.org/bio_t.aspx "Dr.Creflo A. Dollar Biography." World Changers Church-New York. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 Jun 2010.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101204061941/http://worldchangerschurchnewyork.org/bio_t.aspx |date=December 4, 2010 }}</ref> {{as of|2007}}, the congregation reported having around 30,000 members, and $70 million in revenue (gross cash collections) for 2006.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/stories/2007/11/11/preachers11111.html |title=Figures released by megachurch |newspaper=[[The Atlanta Journal-Constitution]] |date=November 11, 2007 |access-date=November 17, 2007 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20071114115406/http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/stories/2007/11/11/preachers11111.html |archive-date=November 14, 2007 |url-status=dead  }}</ref>

In October 2012, Creflo Dollar Ministries leased [[Paradise Theater (Bronx, New York)|Loews Paradise Theater]] in [[The Bronx]] for a new church location in New York.<ref>{{cite news |first=Daniel| last=Beekman|title= Iconic Paradise Theater on Grand Concourse set to begin next act as megachurch of Creflo Dollar|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/bronx/world-changers-church-new-york-occupy-paradise-article-1.1211185|newspaper=The New York Times|date=December 2, 2012 |access-date=July 7, 2013}}</ref>

Dollar also speaks at conferences and writes about his [[Prosperity theology|gospel of wealth]] and his involvement in [[televangelism]].<ref name="NY2">{{cite news| first= Michael| last=Luo| title=Preaching a Gospel of Wealth in a Glittery Market, New York| url= https://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/15/nyregion/15prosperity.html|newspaper=The New York Times|date=January 15, 2006|access-date=September 7, 2010|url-access=limited}}</ref><ref name="NY">{{cite web| url= http://nypress.com/the-best-thing-about-evangelist-creflo-dollar-is-his-audience/|last=Lavallee|first=Andrew| website=New York Press|title=The Best Thing About Evangelist Creflo Dollar Is His Audience|date=August 14, 2001| access-date=December 10, 2014}}</ref>