{"id":26655,"date":"2011-06-11T00:01:35","date_gmt":"2011-06-11T00:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/lowcountry_south_carolina_pastor_awarded_3-3m\/"},"modified":"2011-06-11T00:01:35","modified_gmt":"2011-06-11T00:01:35","slug":"lowcountry_south_carolina_pastor_awarded_3-3m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=26655","title":{"rendered":"(Local Paper) Lowcountry South Carolina pastor awarded $3.3M"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Horry County judge recently awarded Krystal Renee Thornhill, pastor at Charity African Methodist Episcopal Church in Huger, a judgment of more than $3.3 million in the case. The trouble now is finding the man who took her money six years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Thornhill met Theodore Collins at an annual church seminar in Myrtle Beach in 2005, where Collins presented a program called &#8220;Trust Your Church,&#8221; which encouraged people to invest with his Trust Management Associates&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Collins told Thornhill that the $99,000 she invested would accrue 35 percent returns annually and that she would receive $3,500 every 40 days, according to court filings. Bank records show that Thornhill&#8217;s money and another investor&#8217;s $1 million instead went into an account used to fund purchases such as airline and hotel reservations, meals at chain restaurants and furniture.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/news\/2011\/jun\/08\/local-pastor-awarded-33m\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Horry County judge recently awarded Krystal Renee Thornhill, pastor at Charity African Methodist Episcopal Church in Huger, a judgment of more than $3.3 million in the case. The trouble now is finding the man who took her money six<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=26655\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,39,54,168,114,435,184,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-south-carolina","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-law-legal-issues","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}