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Gwen Lara, weight-reduction plan proponent and church founder, apparently died Saturday when a small airplane crashed right into a Tennessee lake quickly after takeoff. Her husband, actor Joe Lara, and 5 different folks have been on the airplane, USA Today studies. A witness noticed the airplane hit the water, and officers mentioned the search had grow to be a restoration effort by Sunday. “We are now not … in search of dwell victims at this level,” mentioned Fire Rescue Capt. Joshua Sanders. The small airplane had taken off from Smyrna, about 3 miles from Percy Priest Lake, and was headed to Palm Beach, Fla. Lara’s daughter Elizabeth Shamblin Hannah, whose husband was on the flight, texted church households Saturday saying, the airplane “needed to go down for a managed, fast touchdown … God is in management.”
Lara, who based Remnant Fellowship Church in Brentwood in 1999 primarily based on “faith-based weight reduction,” drew large consideration for her pronouncements. She mentioned youngsters ought to obey their mother and father and wives ought to obey their husbands. Church members ought to obey church leaders, Lara mentioned, per the Tennessean. Being obese indicated greed and gluttony, and she or he mentioned genetic components do not have an effect on weight reduction. Lara, 66, was criticized for feedback about skinny Jews imprisoned in focus camps. Churches world wide used her e book, The Weigh Down Diet, and movies regardless of criticism that the church was a cult. Joe Lara, 58, appeared for a short while within the Nineteen Nineties within the title position of the TV collection, “Tarzan: The Epic Adventures.” The different passengers have been all church leaders. (Read extra plane crash tales.)
