Sean Feucht / Burn 24-7 / Let Us Worship

Sean Feucht emerged from Bethel Church Redding's worship-leader pipeline in the early 2000s and founded Burn 24-7 in 2003 as a 24-hour worship-and-prayer ministry modelled on the IHOP Kansas City template (Mike Bickle, separately profiled). Through the 2010s Burn 24-7 expanded to 250+ regional 'burn furnaces' globally, generating substantial donation revenue. Feucht became a more explicitly political figure during the 2020 COVID period: the Let Us Worship tour staged outdoor worship rallies in Portland, Seattle, Minneapolis, and dozens of other cities in explicit defiance of public-health gathering restrictions, framing the rallies as 'religious liberty' protests against 'tyranny'. Feucht attended the January 6 2021 events at the US Capitol (he denies entering the building); he ran in the 2022 California gubernatorial primary, finishing 12th out of 26 candidates. The same year he founded the Hold the Line PAC for explicit Christian-nationalist political organising.

The 2023 ProPublica investigation by Andrea Suozzo and Andy Kroll ('A Worship Leader's Empire') used IRS 990 filings and county recorder-of-deed records to trace approximately $1.7M in real-estate purchases by Feucht and his immediate family that were not adequately disclosed in the Burn 24-7 nonprofit's filings — the canonical financial-extraction documentation in the entry. The Roys Report (Julie Roys), Religion News Service, and Christianity Today have all run substantial follow-up coverage. The Bethel-Redding-derived parasocial-guru patterns include 'signs and wonders' theology (gold dust on stage, glory clouds, healing claims) and a strong personal-loyalty framing of donors as 'partners' in the Feucht family's mission. The Light a Candle global tour (2024+) continues the model internationally.

The entry's CLCI 28 score reflects: documented financial-control patterns (the ProPublica nonprofit-real-estate findings), parasocial-guru architecture (paid donor partnership tiers, Patreon-style content access), and political-extremism organising (Hold the Line PAC + Jericho March / J6 attendance). The score is High but not Extreme because Feucht has no formal organised-membership structure — donors are not 'members' in the cult-of-organisation sense — and exit imposes no social cost beyond ceasing donations. The pattern is closer to a parasocial-guru economy than a high-control compound community.