Recently Hinn is asking for money to help his minsitry more than any other time before.Lats night he had Steve Munsey (July 18 2003) on asking people to give 77$ under the guideline of the Spirit giving back one hundredfold to everyone.

“On June 3, 1999, Mr. Hinn made the surprise announcement that he was relocating his ministry based in Orlando, Fla., to Dallas-Fort Worth because the area offered better accessibility and more opportunities for expansion.” (“What happened to Hinn's promised healing center?” By Steve McGonigle / The Dallas Morning News 6/23/2002).

Hinn said: “...most of the ministry's 387 employees would be offered the opportunity to move to Texas, while the 50 people on the church staff would stay as long as the church remained open in Orlando.” The Orlando Sentinel reported a month later on July 7, 1999, “Only 80 of the 387 employees at Benny Hinn's World Outreach Center will be offered new jobs” (www.fakefaithhealers.com).

Clint Black then took over the Orlando based church. This began a series of new ventures for the Hinn ministry “At the time, Mr. Hinn was under heavy scrutiny from news media in Florida because of a former ministry security chief's financial corruption allegations against Mr. Hinn. No charges were brought against anyone in that case.”(ibid)

Also a drug overdose had occurred inside his organization and “According to Orange County sheriff's records, at the time of his death, Delgado was under suspicion for the heroin-related death of Sydney Williams. Williams, who at one time took care of Hinn's son, Joshua, and later drove a truck for the ministry, died Nov. 15, 1997 at his Florida home after injecting himself with a massive dose of heroin. Delgado was being investigated in the death because Williams appeared to have been drugged following a visit to Delgado's home.”

Officials at Hinn's ministry stressed that they had begun random drug testing of employees as a result of the deaths. It declined any knowledge of drug use by Delgado and Williams and issued a statement that, “Benny Hinn Ministries has given many people the opportunity for employment who have rebuilt broken lives through Biblical principles, healing and a new way of life.” Church spokesman David Brokaw told the newspaper, “We will not tolerate and will not condone illegal drug use by employees of the ministry. When we find out about it we will act immediately” (reported by the Quarterly Personal Freedom Outreach, 1999).

What is perplexing is that one can look at the videos of Delgado and see that he is on some kind of drug, its hard to believe this would not be noticed by those close to him in Hinn’s organization.

He proposed a $30 million shrine to faith healing and solicited donations to pay for it. The ground breaking for that healing center in Dallas Texas was to begin Jan. 3rd 2000. Hinn said God gave him the vision of building a healing center 20 years earlier, but he began to discuss this project openly, soliciting donations as he began his move to Texas. The healing center was to be a memorial to faith healers such as Kathryn Kuhlman and Aimee Semple McPherson, A.A Allen, Jack Coe, Lester Sumerall and Oral Roberts who is still alive. The facility was to be a place of healing mostly for the supporters of his ministry and also would be a place “where the sick can come and be healed without Benny Hinn having to be there”
Hinn would decorate it with “healing gardens, with healing statues of biblical healing saints from the Old Testament. Its going to have a healing fountain an eternal healing fire, its going to have places where people can come to and be prayed for in a healing cathedral and chapels in it.”… “people can come 24 hours a day and be prayed for, so no one will have to wait for a crusade” (Aug. 24, 1999). Even though Rod Parsley told Hinn it will be easy to build “because it is prophetically in the timetable of God, it is the fullness of time, a woman cannot get that baby out until its time.” This baby has had a lot more than 9 months to be birthed.

“By August 1999, Cirrus Group, a Dallas real estate developer working for Mr. Hinn, signed a contract to purchase an undeveloped 8.2-acre lot along State Highway 114, about a mile northwest of Texas Stadium.”
It “is appraised for tax purposes at $1.5 million. Dan Allred, whose company manages the property, said Cirrus put up $40,000 to 50,000 in earnest money to hold the property for 60 days.”
“Gary Miller, a chief building plans examiner for the city of Irving, said he discussed building code issues with two architects working for Cirrus on the healing center during a meeting Aug. 19, 1999.
His office remained in contact with Cirrus until mid-September, he said, but never received an application for a building permit. After the 60 days expired, Cirrus forfeited the earnest money, Mr. Allred said.
“I don't know what happened,” Mr. Miller said. (“What happened to Hinn's promised healing center?” By Steve McGonigle / The Dallas Morning News 6/23/2002).

“The popular preacher said he needed to raise $30 million to build this park. He said he needed to raise $5 million by the end of the year, donor cards were distributed with preprinted amounts starting at $1,500. The remaining $25 million was to be raised over two years.”(ibid)

The donors would gladly contribute to this spectacular project. $1,500 and you will be reminisced at the Eternal Flame of Healing. $2,000 and your name will be on the rocks in the Healing Stream. $4,000 to $8,000and your name will be engraved on the Fountain of Healings. $15,000 and your name will be on the walls of the Healing Gardens. $30,000 will put your name in the Hall of Faith. $150,000 will put your name on the cornerstone of the People's Cathedral. 3 years later his followers are without the Healing Gardens, statues and waters.

Hinn gave a computer-generated tour of the park to a crowd of 17,000 at Reunion Arena on Oct. 29, 1999 in the Reunion Arena, donor cards with preprinted amounts that started at $1,500 were distributed. A live groundbreaking presentation via the Internet was to take place the next day, but it rained. The ministry posted this message on the website: Due to weather conditions, the Groundbreaking had to be postponed. Please watch this website for announcements with the new day and time for the live Internet Broadcast of this event, a later date that never came.

“The first sign of a change in plans came from Mr. Brokaw, the spokesman. He told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, in a story published Nov. 19, 1999, that the healing center would not be built in Irving because the ministry's donors wanted a larger parcel of land.”
Nothing was said publicly about the failed project until Feb. 22, 2000, when Paul Crouch asked on his television program for a status report. “Right after our great crusade there [in Dallas], the builders came to me and said that the area we were in has forbidden us, will not allow me to build a place for a church where our partners can come,” Mr. Hinn said.

Hinn's “World Healing Center” never materialized even though he claimed to have the word of the Lord on this, Even Rod Parsley a personal friend prophesied it would be the easiest thing he has done.

“Despite previous statements by Mr. Hinn and spokesman David Brokaw that the healing center was put on hold because some donors or unnamed Las Colinas interests opposed it, the ministry said in its written response that the decision to delay the project was divinely inspired”

The conclusion: “Pastor Hinn felt God had revealed to him in prayer back in February 2000 that the timing was not right for the construction of the healing center portion of the development project in Texas, and he should wait,” the ministry wrote.

But this is all after it was stalled because of the various other

His ministry has not issue a public accounting of how much money he raised or how it was spent. Those looking into this matter have been told by the ministry that “All funds were used for their designated purpose, or, at the donor's instruction, either returned to the donor or used for an equally important ministry activity consistent with its charitable and religious purpose” (“What happened to Hinn's promised healing center?” By Steve McGonigle / The Dallas Morning News 6/23/2002).

“Ole Anthony, the president of Trinity Foundation, a Dallas-based religious watchdog group, said the healing center project struck him from the beginning as “a fund-raising gimmick” (Dateline).

“In April 2000, Cirrus Group purchased 6.9 acres along State Highway 121 in Grapevine. Mr. Hinn's ministry began operating the following July in a 58,000-square-foot building Cirrus constructed.

“Mr. Hinn, on his television show, asked supporters in October 2001 to provide $7 million to pay for the office building on top of the $2 million that already had been spent. He previously asked them for $1 million to buy office furniture.” (“What happened to Hinn's promised healing center?” By Steve McGonigle / The Dallas Morning News 6/23/2002).

In a 1997 television interview, Mr. Hinn maintained that he did not become a preacher to enrich himself. “I don't believe it's right to use your ministry to make money,” he told his interviewer Larry King. “But I do believe [in] making sure your needs are met, and someone like me has needs.”

Over the years, Mr. Hinn has made contradictory statements about his wealth. At times, he has said he barely scrapes by, living on royalties from books he has written. At others, he has acknowledged earning at upwards to 1 million a year. “Hinn won’t specify how his ministry’s money is spent, except to say he doesn’t personally benefit from any of it”(Dateline).

In his 1997 Honolulu Crusade Hinn made a point about his finances “I have a board of directors. None of whom are my family members, who decide my salary, without my knowledge or permission to be in the board meeting when it's decided.” He then brought one of the board members up to assure the people that what they do is on the up and up. (Benny Hinn's Honolulu Miracle Crusade, Blaisdell Center Friday Night, February 28, 1997).

Hinn's organizations revenue has steadily been increasing, from $35 million in 1996 to $50 million in 1997 to a estimated $60 million in donations for 1998. As of 2001-2002 its total ministry revenue now exceeds well over $100 million a year. No one really knows the exact amount.

Bob McKeown of Dateline asked Paul Nelson of ECFA: “Is there any way to know how much Benny Hinn makes? Whether he’s personally benefiting or not, and where the money goes?”
Paul Nelson of ECFA: “There really isn’t, and that’s why an organization like ECFA has been formed.”
It was number of years ago on the CNN Impact that John Camp mentioned a voluntary Watchdog Organization, established by the Reverend Billy Graham. It’s called the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability and it monitors 850 religious based groups. Benny Hinn said he was considering joining it. (reported on CNN Impact). That was then--he still has not joined nor would they approve in what he does as Paul Nelson made this point perfectly clear.

Hinn’s high lifestyle and his efforts to keep it secret seems to contradict the kind of financial sacrifice he asks of his followers. Yet his cliché “If I had to have a big financial miracle, I would not give a dollar. I would give a big sacrificial seed, believing God for the harvest.” Continues to work for the loyal devotees who believe in his miracles. Hinn can ask “If God would speak to you, even giving $10,000, $50,000, or maybe even a $100,000” (CNN Impact) and they give this amount “some of them pledged or gave more than $100,000 apiece last year (Dateline).

Yet he told Impact News (March 16, 1997) when asked what his annual salary was, “Well, John, you knew that that would be private, but ah, I knew you would ask it. I can tell you this, if it wasn’t for my book royalties, I’d be in debt.”

“People ask me what I do with this money from my books, for example, from my royalty. I give much of that away … ministries, ah, charities, ah … what comes in through the ministry stays in the ministry.”(Larry King) How can one give away the money if it is going to keep them out of debt?

Then in Hawaii at the February 28, 1997 service at Blaisdell Center, Hinn made a complete reversal and discussed the distribution of his books saying, “Anything that sells, I don’t get a cent. All the books, all the tapes, I get nothing. I just get one cent. That’s it!”

Well how many books has he sold? His book, Good Morning, Holy Spirit, was on the bestseller list since its release in October, 1990, having sold approximately one-quarter million copies within the first few months. In pennies that would be how much? Do you think this made a difference in his lifestyle, especially since he gives it away? It is highly doubtful a famous figure like Hinn receives this little for his book when others receive much more. His ministry buys his books and then sells them at the crusades. As for his lifestyle, “Hinn explains that some of the perks he has enjoyed like custom-made suits and expensive cars have been paid for by his personal income, including the royalties from his many books”(Dateline). That’s hard to do if “All the books, all the tapes, I get nothing. I just get one cent. That’s it!”

“According to the Trinity Foundation, the biggest customer for pastor Benny’s books is pastor Benny’s own ministry. Trinity says the Hinn ministry buys thousands of the books for which Hinn apparently collects the royalties. The ministry then offers them for sale at crusades and on its Web site, and gives them away to donors.”(Dateline Dec.27, 2002) You may need to over this section on the contradictions Hinn has stated where his money comes from because it certainly does not add up. Paul Nelson of ECFA said this “wouldn’t be allowed if Hinn belonged to his organization” (Dateline).

With all this said Hinn also says “You know, whenever you see me hold my book up and say, “Go to the bookstore.” I reimburse the ministry for that. I'm very careful with that. When - when - when you see me on the air saying, “Go to the bookstore. Get my book.” They charge me for it. They bill me. They're not too nice to me. But that's just smart. You see. Anything that sells through the ministry I don't get a cent. All the books and all the tapes, you know, I get nothing. I just get one salary, that's it. But the news media and the world are a little crazy when they think we preachers are in this for the money” (Benny Hinn's Honolulu Miracle Crusade, Blaisdell Center Friday Night, February 28, 1997).

Certainly having two or three stories of how or where the money goes to does not help present any integrity in this area. Yet there are those like pastor Carlotta Moore “I’m pretty sure NBC’s man that owns NBC probably got his own jet and multimillion dollars,” “Probably got houses here, houses there, and this that and the other. And I believe that the preachers of the gospel, I believe they should live better than even NBC’s president.”

While a minister of the gospel should not be poor, I don’t believe there is any biblical justification to be living “the lifestyle of the rich and famous” (though Hinn is both rich and famous). We have examples, just look at the apostles and how they lived, they were right there in the trenches with the people, they did not have mansions on the hill overlooking the ocean and build “the apostle Peter evangelistic center” or “the Apostle Paul healing gardens.” So to compare a minister to a president of one of the alphabet channels is really not the issue. This comparing what is supposed to be spiritual with what the world does with its money, this is not where we should look for justification of this kind of luxurious living.

Carlotta Moore told Dateline “she sows a seed of $12,000 a year with pastor Benny, and that she expects to be financially rewarded.” How much does this pastor make to be able give this? this gives you an idea of how much his followers are giving.

Dateline reported from those who were inside the Hinn organization of numerous incidents of impropriety with handling sizeable funds. Dateline spoke to a former head usher who said he saw money being taken out of the collection buckets and put in pockets. He was offered one thousand dollars out of the bucket to ignore it, but refused. Several former employees who were interviewed stated that anyone who reported unusual things going on in the ministry was fired. It has become known that one of Hinn's former bodyguards was going to go public about his ministry. The guard was paid a tidy sum of $103,000.00 to be quiet.

“During the investigation, Licciardello secured sworn statements from nearly three dozen current and former church employees. Hinn's organization is insisting on the return of the transcribed copies of those testimonies, in addition to any written account of the conversations he had with Hinn and any documents detailing the personal lives of former employees which were compiled by the church.”

The Orlando newspaper reported that Hinn had “gone to court to block his former security chief from disclosing financial secrets that an adviser testified could destroy the television ministry.” Mario Licciardello found himself slapped with a federal court gag order to keep from making known information about the financial practices of Hinn's ministry. The newspaper reported that “Licciardello is demanding money to keep him from revealing what he knows about allegations of theft and corruption at Hinn's World Outreach Center” (reported by Personal Freedom Outreach 1999).