Transformation Church Amasses Over 100 Noise Complaints, Making Life Hell For Area Residents
Transformation Church has earned the ire of area residents frustrated over the constant noise from the controversial property, with some complaining that living next to the heavenly abode has been a hellish nightmare.
In 2020, after the church moved to its new building, it quickly acquired 32 noise complaints from local residents. Under pressure and with threats of being shut down, the church released the following statement:
Transformation Church and Bixby City Officials are currently working together towards an amicable resolution to this matter. Our hope is that both parties will soon come to an agreement that will allow the church to continue to worship while lessening any perceived impact on the neighborhood and community in which we live, work, and worship. We want to continue to be good neighbors while carrying on the vision of our church that is to see lives transformed in Christ. We are excited to be in Bixby, and look forward to resolving this matter.
Three years later, they have been anything but a good neighbor and have not been shut down, amassing an estimated 150 noise complaints, according to KTulsa, who reports:
Jeremy Price has a thick stack of business cards from Bixby police officers, each one of which represents a call responding to a noise complaint about Transformation Church.
“There’s at least 80 tickets at $200 a ticket, and I’m one person. He’s got a stack, they’ve got a stack,” he said. ($16,000 from him alone)
Since 2020, say area residents, quality of life has taken a significant blow.
“It’s unbelievable. I’ll be in the shower and literally, I can feel my sternum thumping,” said Karl Schultze.
“They’re practicing at full volume and they do this anywhere from 7 in the morning to 11 at night. At it’s sometimes four days a week, some days five days a week, and it’s very random,” said Price.
While noise reduction improvements have reportedly been made inside the building they apparently haven’t solved the problem.
“I would say that what that’s done is bring down the ability for us to maybe hear the voices, the higher end treble, the spectrum of sound, but the bass, it hasn’t affected it at all,” said Price.
“Pictures on my shelves will vibrate in my living room,” said Schultze.
As for the city, residents say police officers dutifully take reports and issue citations but that hasn’t made a difference either.“Nothing changes, they don’t turn it down, they don’t change their behavior,” said Price.
Transformation Church is led by pastor Michael Todd, known for crowd surfing during his church’s worship service and spending a lot of money. In the last three years, he’s given away $3,500,000 in houses, cash, and cars, spent $65,000 to buy 168 pairs of shoes, gave $600,000 in “reparations,” and purchased $66,000,000 in real estate.
He’s also known for preaching some good old-fashioned Modalism, giving the world perhaps the grossest illustration in church after he snorted and then hocked a loogie full of spit and snot into his hand and rubbed it in another man’s face. He recently had a service where ballet dancers with bare butts danced around the stage and, in a recent sermon, offered a muddled, confused, contradictory, and seeming apology for what God’s word says about homosexuality.
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