Overview
- Video from Perfecting Church’s Oct. 19 Day of Giving shows Winans telling member Roberta McCoy her $1,235 offering was short of his request for “$1,000 plus $1,000,” then saying, “That ain’t what I asked you to do.”
- McCoy told WXYZ she was not rebuked and said the pastor had instructed donors to line up by amount; she added that Winans apologized to her personally after the service.
- Winans told the station he was calling donors up by increments to keep lines orderly and to avoid long waits for elderly members, characterizing his remarks as a correction to preserve order.
- The clip continues to draw heavy criticism across social media, while some public figures, including Darrell Scott, have defended Winans and argued the moment was taken out of context.
- The fundraising push is tied to Perfecting Church’s long-running building project at 7 Mile and Woodward, which faced delays and a 2023 settlement with Detroit, and there has been no widely circulated formal statement from the church addressing the broader public.