Exploring the success, leadership of Pastor Todd at Transformation Church

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TULSA, Okla. — Transformation Church continues to grow its portfolio, precocious buying astir $67 cardinal successful existent property successful Tulsa County.

The religion is led by Pastor Michael Todd who took the reigns astatine Transformation with his woman Natalie successful 2015.

Since taking over, Todd is present a New York Times Best-Selling writer and is asked to talk astatine churches and events each implicit the world.

"I started retired arsenic the dependable antheral for Greenwood Christian Center," Todd says.

"It was a religion that was started by a pioneered by Bishop Gary and Debbie McIntosh who felt aft what happened successful 1921 erstwhile they recovered retired astir the Race Massacre that they needed to bash something.”

Todd says McIntosh felt they needed to determination from southbound Tulsa to northbound Tulsa to "reverse the Massacre curse," resulting successful the Greenwood Christian Center successful 1999.

McIntosh handed the power of the religion implicit to Todd successful 2015.

"[McIntosh] virtually successful 2015, Feb. 1, him and his woman handed maine and my wife, Natalie and said 'You’ve stood by my broadside for the past 5 years and I’m going to basal by your side, and you’re expected to pb this,'" Todd says.

“We had little than 300 radical coming to our church, we are successful the hood of Tulsa, and cipher adjacent knew I was a pastor and astir of the radical who was determination was leaving.”

The religion bought the Spirit Bank Event Center successful Bixby for $10.5 cardinal successful 2015, transforming the sports arena into a worship center.

Since starting its services successful Bixby, the metropolis has issued hundreds of citations to the religion for sound complaints from surrounding neighbors.

“We person immoderate beauteous radical successful the vicinity down america that made immoderate complaints astir the noise, and we said, you cognize what, we privation to beryllium bully neighbors and truthful we person spent a ample fig of resources implicit this pandemic calling successful experts who are capable to soundproof and bring a level of dependable dampening to our arena," Todd says.

“It’s a large arena and truthful it’s taken a batch of clip and each of that is astir finished and arsenic soon arsenic each the particulate settles and we are capable to get clearance from the City of Bixby, you amended judge we are going to get successful present and person immoderate bully ol' church.”

The religion hasn't held in-person services since March 2020, but up to astir 24,000 radical astatine clip person tuned successful online for Todd's sermons.

In September, the religion bought the Unit Corporation Building successful westbound Tulsa to usage arsenic unit bureau space.

The Spirit Bank Event Center volition lone big religion services and a children's ministry.

"We don’t person immoderate large backers, we don’t person immoderate companies, we don’t person anything…this is simply a nonprofit, escaped volition but we person radical with a batch of religion that judge unsocial we tin bash immoderate chill things, but unneurotic we tin bash crazy, astonishing things.”

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