First Family Church (FFC) was a Baptist megachurch located in Overland Park in southern Johnson County, Kansas, on 51 acres (210,000 m2) in the southwestern portion of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area of the United States.
Every month First Family Church members prepared meals for homeless shelters in the Kansas City metro area.
Gifts were taken to a battered women's shelter, and Bibles and blankets were taken to those in need during the winter months.
[7] September 22, 2004, The Lawrence Journal World reported that First Family Church Pastor Jerry Johnston and the Reverend Jerry Falwell urged Christian leaders in Kansas to mobilize their congregations for upcoming elections.
[8] In March 2007, The Kansas City Star ran a front-page investigative series of articles on financial concerns at First Family Church and that hundreds of members had left the church in recent years due to concerns about financial responsibility.
[1] Additional reporting was done referencing that all of Jerry Johnston's children and his mother worked on staff with him.
[11] "Bott said the newspaper report raised some serious questions that could be easily answered if the church joined the ECFA" and that the ministry refused to join the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability (ECFA) pursuant to the radio networks standards.
In July 2007, a follow-up article was printed in The Kansas City Star citing additional allegations, including the misuse of a $50,000 contribution to Jerry Johnston Ministries that was allegedly diverted to a personal account of the Johnstons'.
[16] Part of the bank's filing mentioned the church had a payroll of $915,000 a year, with over $600,000 of that going to the Johnston family.