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 Benny Hinn is under scrutiny as his ministry faces unpaid debts to a marketing firm and a court-ordered freeze on its bank account. (Photo courtesy of Facebook)

A judge in Texas has frozen a Benny Hinn Ministries bank account until the prosperity preacher pays a debt of nearly $160,000 to an Austin-based marketing firm.

Hinn’s television ministry, World Healing Center Church, Inc., ignored invoices for eight different direct-mail fundraising projects between January and May 2025, according to the lawsuit filed in August. The unpaid bills came out to about $146,000. Interest charged for delinquent payment added more than $7,000, Tarrant County court documents show.

PrintMailPro, a 22-year-old company with about 150 employees, would like to get paid.

Judge John P. Chupp issued a writ of garnishment on March 16, ordering Frost Bank, which operates 200 branches across Texas, not to release any funds to Benny Hinn Ministries. Bank representatives are scheduled to give the court a financial report on Hinn’s account this month.

Benny Hinn Ministries did not respond to a request for comment. Hinn, however, has spoken on television of financial problems facing the ministry.

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Benny Hinn. (Photo courtesy of bennyhinn.org)

“Every ministry goes through trials. Ours is going through a trial right now,” he said in a video broadcast last year. “We cannot slow down and we cannot stop preaching because of money.”

Hinn reminded his viewers of the prosperity doctrine that God’s blessings, including material wealth, are “triggered” by demonstrations of faith. “You have to sow seed to see it work,” he said. 

Hinn’s ministry encourages regular viewers to become partners, giving at least $30 per month. People who give more than $10,000 per year get “exclusive texting access,” special in-person meetings and other perks.

Questions about financial health

Benny Hinn Ministries does not publicly disclose financial information, but its frozen bank account was first reported by the Trinity Foundation, a televangelism watchdog ministry.

Foundation president Pete Evans believes Hinn has long hidden serious financial struggles.

“The prosperity gospel is not working for Hinn,” Evans wrote in 2021. “Hinn’s ministry has been reduced to a shell of its former self.”

The Israeli-born televangelist, whose full name is Toufik Benedictus Hinn, has been broadcasting healing services since the late 1980s. After being on the air for roughly a decade, World Healing employed about 400 people. But by the 2020s, ministry staff had been paired down to about two dozen, according to the Trinity Foundation.Benny Hinn Ministries, based out of World Healing Center Church in Grapevine, Texas, is facing financial scrutiny and a court-ordered account freeze. (Photo courtesy of Facebook)

Hinn was at one time not only the most famous televangelist but, according to a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation documentary, “possibly the richest.” An estranged nephew who’s now an Arizona pastor, Costi Hinn, has described traveling with Hinn as “a whirlwind tour of luxury,” with custom suits, private jets and royal suites around the globe.

Lawsuits coast to coast

But a trail of lawsuits, with records in state and federal courts in New York, California, and Texas, shows the ministry has routinely failed to pay marketing firms. 

In 2009, Benny Hinn Ministries got into a dispute with The Cross Agency, an advertising firm that purchased television airtime for Hinn. According to court documents, the agency claimed it was owed about $910,000.

Benny Hinn Ministries countersued, alleging The Cross had misused its funds and failed to account for about $795,000 in earned credit, which was supposed to be applied to outstanding media buys.

The case was settled out of court in 2014. The terms of the settlement are not public.

By that time, however, Benny Hinn Ministries was embroiled in a conflict with another firm.

Mail America Communications, a direct mail company, claimed that Benny Hinn Ministries had defaulted on payment obligations. According to the federal lawsuit, the television ministry owed the company about $5.6 million and agreed to make $103,537 monthly payments, starting in May 2012, but then missed the June payment. And it kept missing [payments] after that. 

Benny Hinn Ministries negotiated a forbearance arrangement a few years later but then failed to make a promised lump sum payment of $260,000, according to the lawsuit.

The ministry’s attorney tried to get the case dismissed, arguing a statute of limitations [applied] and Mail America had waited too long to sue. Some payments had been made but not properly recorded, he said, though he didn’t provide any evidence of that, court records show.

Another case in California

While that was going on in a New York court room, another case played out in California.

InfoCision, a company that operates call centers for telethon fundraisers, sued Benny Hinn Ministries in 2014. InfoCision claimed that the organization had failed to “timely make required payments” on a debt of roughly $674,000, plus approximately $29,000 in interest and nearly $5,000 in late fees. 

The case was settled before the end of the year. The television ministry worked out a plan to make weekly payments of $11,000 for about 10 months and then increase payments to $21,000. The $1.8 million in “principle, accrued interest, outstanding charges, costs, and fees” would be paid off by the end of 2016.On Aug. 2, 2025, Benny Hinn preaches at the Southwest Believers Convention in Fort Worth, Texas. (Video screengrab)

Mail America’s federal case, however, dragged on until 2021. The judge ruled that there was “no genuine dispute of any material fact” and Benny Hinn Ministries hadn’t presented adequate evidence to defend itself. The court ordered Benny Hinn Ministries to pay about $3 million plus interest and legal fees.

Just a few years later, Hinn ran into trouble with the direct-mail marketing company in Austin.

At an October 2025 pastor’s conference in Ghana, two months after PrintMailPro filed its suit in Texas, Hinn encouraged ministers to learn to ignore criticism.

“Everything we do for the Lord matters in eternity,” Hinn said. “When you know you’re called, nothing (here) matters. In other words, you don’t worry about what people say about you. Or what they think about you. Because you know you’re called.”

Daniel Silliman is senior reporter/editor at The Roys Report. He began his two decades in journalism covering crime in Atlanta and has since led major investigations into abuse and misconduct in Christian contexts. Daniel and his wife live in Johnson City, Tennessee.

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