The money · in progress
Follow the money.
Members give cash weekly. Member businesses route rebates through the church’s commercial network. Investment vehicles take controlling stakes in member companies. A new global company now holds the meeting halls. This page is being built to map every documented flow, entity by entity, with a citation on every arrow.
What the record already shows.
RNZ’s 2022 investigation, built on ex-member accounts, describes what its sources call the church’s “money-go-round”: congregational cash payments, an investment portfolio built under the church’s Global Funding Team, and donation amounts “suggested” to members after annual turnover questionnaires1. One insurance broker told RNZ the structure was “almost like a legalised form of money laundering.” That is the interviewee’s characterisation, quoted by RNZ; this site documents the flows and lets the record speak.
On 19 March 2024 the Australian Taxation Office raided the church’s Universal Business Team offices in Sydney under its “Private Wealth, Behaviours of Concern” programme2. ABC Four Corners’ 2025 investigation charted how companies supporting the church “have amassed billions”3.
The full page will diagram four layers: the collection layer (weekly cash), the commercial layer (UBT and member purchases), the investment layer (Vision Growth / Vision Accelerator), and the property layer (PBCC Properties Global Ltd). The working plan and the entity dataset are public in the repository: docs/MONEY.md.
