Global Vision Bible Church's pending move from its warehouse facility in Lebanon will be delayed, Pastor Greg Locke announced in a July 23 social media post.
The future site will be in another part of Lebanon, but Locke didn't specify where.
Locke previously announced the Wilson County church would leave its warehouse facility at 1010 Maddox Simpson Parkway in eastern Lebanonwhere the church has met since Dec. 1, 2024. The pastor told his congregation that plans were for Sunday, July 26, to be the final service before the pending move.
But the congregation will meet where it has been for now.
"We will be at the warehouse this Sunday," Locke's announcement read. "It was going to be our final service there, but we will remain for another week or so
while continued renovations and preparation take place on our building in another part of Lebanon."
Locke also posted that the reason the address has not been publicly released is because, he says, people could attempt to sabotage movement or progress for the church.
Locke said further announcements about the final move will come as the church gets ready to move into the facility.
Cato Industrial is the property owner for the Maddox Simpson Parkway building. Cato Industrial and Global Vision reached an “amicable,” agreement to end the three-year lease early, Cato Industrial manager Cynthia Cato said.
Plans to move also appears to have started before federal investigators and local law enforcement went to search Locke’s home and another church location several weeks ago, which the pastor addressed during a July 12 church service.
Locke said the raid was part of a nearly two-year-long investigation into accusations of financial mismanagement in his leadership at Global Vision, which the pastor has described as unwarranted.
Global Vision previously met in western Wilson County at 2060 Old Lebanon Dirt Road where the church used a large white tent before the move to Maddox Simpson Parkway.
The move to Maddox Simpson Parkway came after the church did not close on a contract to buy the former Love's Way Church campus at 310 Coles Ferry Pike in Lebanon.
Locke has 2.2 million Facebook followers and has gained national attention for social media posts with outspoken right-wing political positions and a mass-deliverance ministry that includes casting out evil spirits and events like inviting people to burn items the church relates to the occult.
This article originally appeared on Nashville Tennessean: Pastor Greg Locke says church move delayed, new spot will remain in Lebanon
