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Mar 8, 2019 · Pastor David Chadwick of Forest Hill Church in Charlotte, N.C. | Photo: Instagram After nearly 40 years at the helm of the Forest Hill Church in Charlotte, North Carolina, which he built from a 180-member congregation into a 4,000-member, six-campus ministry, Pastor David Chadwick has resigned.
Mar 7, 2019 · Chadwick, 69, said in an exclusive interview with the Observer on Wednesday that he isn’t retiring but instead “re-firing.”. He is leaving Forest Hill on his own terms, he said, and has decided that he wants to get himself fired up about some other things. Running Forest Hill — a non-denominational mega-church which Chadwick said has a ...
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CHARLOTTE NEWS TALK. Join The David Chadwick Show on WBT every Sunday at 8am. David has been a pastor in Charlotte for almost 40 years. He is presently the pastor of Moments of Hope Church. The focus of this church is to give hope in God to people both locally and globally. He has been hosting The David Chadwick Show on WBT for over 20 years.
David Chadwick graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill with a degree in Communications. While there, he played basketball under legendary coach Dean Smith and was a part of the 1969 Final Four team. He also holds a graduate degree in Counseling from the University of Florida as well as both a Master of Divinity and Doctorate of Ministry from Columbia ...
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Chadwick said that’s not true. He said he did want to address his flaws, meet his accusers face-to-face, and fix whatever was broken. He provided the Observer a copy of a Feb. 19 letter he wrote to one of the council members. The letter read in part: “I’m feeling pain and even shame knowing I gave such grave offense to the very people Marilynn (Cha...
Chadwick never preached again at Forest Hill after Feb. 3, although he didn’t announce his resignation until early March. Then he left the church quickly, with little explanation, no celebration, no succession plan and no farewell sermon. During the weeks that this drama was playing out, two members of the 12-person Council of Elders — one of them ...
Chadwick wouldn’t sign. He said he still felt the call to preach in Charlotte. And so less than two months after submitting his resignation, Chadwick and an army of volunteers started a new church. It meets at Alexander Graham Middle School on Sunday mornings — about three miles from Forest Hill’s main campus. “Moments of Hope Church” opened on Pal...
Instead of Forest Hill’s staff of 150, Chadwick’s new church has a staff of one – himself. Moments of Hope Church holds its services inside a gymnasium, which is familiar ground for the pastor. The 6-foot-8 Chadwick played basketball for Dean Smith at North Carolina in the early 1970s. Chadwick admired Smith’s leadership style so much that he event...
Emmrich said he didn’t want to describe any specific examples of an unhealthy workplace culture at Forest Hill because it might reveal Chadwick’s accusers. Chadwick, though, detailed one instance that council members raised during a tense three-hour meeting with him in early February. In 2017, Chadwick said he had learned that 30 percent of his sta...
There were other issues at stake, too, regarding church direction. Forest Hill’s six campuses each have a “campus pastor,” who is in charge of that specific site and preaches once a month. The other three Sundays usually featured Chadwick preaching from the main campus with the sermon being shown on video at the other locations. Although Chadwick s...
Chadwick isn’t the first well-known pastor to split messily with the church that he guided to prominence. But his quick departure left a number of Forest Hill congregants shaken. Forest Hill member Mindy Hinson has taken her two sons to the church for more than a decade. “We have spent every Christmas Eve for the last 11 years at Forest Hill Church...
Chadwick said that while he still hopes for a reconciliation with Forest Hill and any people he hurt, he just wants to “move on,” adding that he “holds no animosity” toward his former employer. “Really, I’m living out what I’ve had to counsel people in all my years when they go through a life crisis,” Chadwick said. “I’ve said, ‘Well, you’ve got tw...
During his first Easter Sunday remarks at his new church, Chadwick said of Forest Hill: “I will always love that church. You don’t spend 40 years of your life in a place without loving it. I pray for blessings for that beautiful body of Christ. But today is a new day. It’s a new beginning! A new church is being birthed.” Then Chadwick preached a 25...
Aug 26, 2021 · The Rebound Podcast with Matt Doherty: Steven Serio. Pastor David Chadwick built the mega Forest Hill Church in Charlotte, NC. After 39 years he was suddenly forced to resign in a very public manner. David rebounded to start the Moments of Hope Church (MOHC) in Charlotte. Along with a radio ministry on WBT, he has written eight books.
