GEORGIA — Pastor Creflo Dollar wants to show the world “the power of a mega-church.” He took up a $234,000 offering from World Changers Church International members to clear all the debt held by the family of Greg McDowell, the man gunned down by former church employee, Floyd Palmer, while leading a prayer service in the church.

“In my book, he’s a hero,” Dollar told his congregation of the 39-year old husband and father. “If those bullets hadn’t been turned on him, there would’ve been more people that would’ve died.”

L-R: (Victim) GREGORY MCDOWELL and (Shooter) FLOYD PALMER