Gwen Shamblin’s Net Worth, Biography, Age, And Cause Of Death

Gwen Shamblins Net Worth
Gwen Shamblins Net Worth

Gwen Shamblin Lara was an American author. She is the founder of The Weigh Down Workshop and the Remnant Fellowship Church in Brentwood. Gwen Shamblin’s net worth is estimated to be $5 million before her death.

Full NameGwen Shamblin Lara
BornFebruary 18, 1955
Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.
Age66 year old
DiedMay 29, 2021 (aged 66)
Percy Priest Lake, Tennessee, U.S.
OccupationAuthor, Dietitian, Church leader
EducationUniversity of Tennessee
Memphis State University
GenreSelf-help, non-fiction, Christian literature
SpouseDavid Shamblin​​(m. 1978; div. 2018)​
Joe Lara​​(m. 2018; died 2021)​
Children2
Net Worth$5 million

Gwen Shamblin Lara’s Biography

Gwen Shamblin was born on February 18, 1955, in Memphis, Tennessee, the U.S. Just as said earlier, she was an American author, the founder of the Christian diet program known as The Weigh Down Workshop, and the founder of the Remnant Fellowship. Her program, in a combination with her religion and career

Her effort in spraying the church landed it be found in about a thousand churches that include the US, the UK, and Canada. 

Before the establishment of the  Remnant church. She attended the Church of Christ. She is an undergraduate in dietetics, food, and nutrition at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. and was fathered by a doctor. 

Though there is not much information regarding her parents, 

Gwen Shamblin Lara’s Career And Ministry 

After bagging her undergraduate degree in dietetics and during her master’s in food and nutrition. Gwen then started her career as a weight control consultant in 1980.

She chose the phylogeny that genetic, metabolism, and behavioral modification have no real facts to hold on to in the aspect of explaining why some people are thin and others are fat. She had also struggled with weight in college.

The founder of the weigh-down workshop, As it is described as a weight-loss program, a program without food restrictions, that is, eat whenever you want, no exercise regimen, calorie-counting, and bringing the idealogy of one using their faith to lose weight. She does this while running her master’s at Memphis State University.

While she continued to run the program, it began to spread around and was first held at a small gathering in Memphis, Tennessee. With only a retail and non-religious setting.

She fully brought her program into her religion in the 1990s with Bellevue Baptist Church near Memphis, where an estimated 250,000 people attended the program.

Gwen Shamblin is the Author of best-selling books, which sold over a million copies. Title the weight loss diet down diet.

What then after this was how she went further in lecturing those that came across her teaching and passing information in the Washington Post that reads, “The Food Rule: I teach people to transfer their love for food to a love for God.

Once you stop obsessing on the food, you will be able to stop right in the middle of that candle bar,” she said and added, “If you focus your attention on God and pray instead of being magnetically pulled by the refrigerator, it is amazing how free you will be.” 

She prioritized in that book transforming one’s test/love for food to the love of God, and they only met to take a portion of food when needed, not depending on it all the time. 

How Gwen Founded The Remnant Fellowship Church 

Seeing that her program had begun to spread wider, she decided to cut off from the Church of Christ because it did not accept women’s leadership. 

and established her church, Remnant Fellowship Church in Franklin, a building that was completed in 2004 on 40 acres Lara purchased in Brentwood, Tennessee. 

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Shambling’s Other Appearances

In order not to overstrain you, we will drop a few out of the many channels and magazines where she appeared during her program as in her lifetime. This includes being featured in  BBC’s 20/20, A Current Affair, The View, and Dateline (Australia). as well as in such magazines as Family Circle, Good Housekeeping, Woman’s Day, and many newspaper articles.

He was featured on The Today Show, CNN’s Larry King Live, DaySide, and The Early Show. Participants from the Weigh Down Workshop were featured on the cover of Good Housekeeping, in the  Home Journal, in People Magazine, First Magazine, Quick and Simple, and in numerous newspaper articles.

In 2007, The Tyra Banks Show devoted an hour-long program to Gwen, the Weigh Down Diet, the Remnant Fellowship, and participants from the weigh-down program. 

Nevertheless, she also features on television programs like We Tiv, Secret Life of Women, and CBS, which is the Insider in 2009. And in late 2011, she started producing an internet show titled “You Can Overcome. and finally aired her five-part HBO miniseries entitled The Way Down God, Greed, and the Cult of Gwen Shamblin in 2001.

Gwen Shamblin Lara And The Remnant Fellowship Church 

Before her death in 2021, her program had gained much promotion around the world and was thought by many to have different beliefs and manners of eating. 

Gwen Shamblin Lara then went beyond her program, and the church, claiming the responsibility of transferring people addicted to evil behavior to a better life.

That goes from being free from drug taking, cigarettes, overeating, and overspending as well as teaching people the biblical part of a man loving his wife as Christ is kind to the church, and a wife being submissive to her husband, and the emphasis on children obeying their parents. 

But her critics, and those once her adherents, claim that the teaching from the church has a different interpretation for her members. It was said to have influenced members’ finances live, marriages live, social lives, and relationships with others. 

And here are some comments from some family members of the congregants, including some of her rebellious members. 

“You know how to talk to your kids about the dangers of drinking and driving, the dangers of drug use, and how to have safe sex, but you never expect them to tell you not to join a cult.”Said Gein Winger, whose daughter joined the Remnant. 

I was in a very deep depression while at Remnant. Who am I going to talk to?” One of the members spoke on the aspect of the church’s teaching about food disorders and mental health issues among members. 

Gwen Shamblin Lara’s Accusation

Having impacted her members with her teaching, two parents among her members then took her teaching more severely against their child, which made them lose the kids. They believe in the perspective that a child must obey their parents. So to Joseph and Sonya Smith, according to police, claimed to have heard Shamblin admonishing the couple to see a harsh way to discipline their son Josef, who was eight years old. 

In the course of implementing this on their son, Joseph uses glue sticks, belts, and heated coat hangers. locking him in confined spaces for extended periods, and tying his hands with rope.

Mrs. Smith told police that she “normally” gave the children their whippings in increments of ten blows each and that Josef had gotten several of those whipping sessions on the day of his death. And while the investigation was still ongoing, the police also reported that the family had locked their child in the room facing the picture of Jesus on the ceiling for days and even weeks.

And sometimes during the beating, Josef would be held by an elder son to be beaten by the parent. While the parents continued to punish Josef in this manner, he died, as reported by the doctor, as a result of acute and chronic abuse by the parents. This took place on October 8, 2003. 

On hearing the whole report, members of the Remnant church led by Shamblin paid for Smith’s action. They were convicted in Georgia v. The couple, along with other members of the church, were sentenced to 30 years, which was declared by Cobb County Superior Court Judge James Bodiford. 

And by May 2021, an HBO max five-part docuseries titled The Way Down God, Greed, and the Cult of Gwen Shamblin explores some of the accusations made against her, and the church and the church in return have made a response to this RemnantFellowship.org website. 

but wasn’t able to fully face her defeat as an innocent before her death in 2021. 

Gwen Shamblin Lara Is Accused Of Hypocrisy

It is known that the American Author Gwen was married twice, and if followed by doctrine, she headers criticized she was criticized by the critics that called her a hypocrite for not being submissive to her husband David, and for her divorce from him as well. 

In doing this, some of those that spoke on this: 

Like Richard Morris, once a member said, “When she started her weigh-down workshop tracing back in the late 90s, her husband David was very much present in assisting her and was visible as well.” 

But as her project get more famous, David’s appearance became rare because he weight being physically described as overweight. Gwen had disclosed her plan of divorcing him to him earlier to her followers, she deeds and ending her 40-year marriage with him to marry Tarzan in Manhattan actor Joe Lara in 2018. 

Another said Helen Byrd said, “All of those days you have told people to suffer through their marriage, and then whenever the spirit hits you, you have had a change of heart. Now it is okay to get a divorce.” 

That was what she got from the public for divorcing her husband David.

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Gwen Shamblin Preaches Heresy

On August 10, 2000, Gwen spoke against the highly biblical Trinity. But she tried misleading her followers that the belief wasn’t biblical. 

This alone made her lose a lot of followers.  Her publisher, Thomson Nelson, dropped the publication of her upcoming write-up well as her name was removed from the women of faith website alongside her staff getting hatred from others. 

Gwen Shamblin Lara Networth

It has been reported that Gwen Shamblin Lara’s net worth is approximately 5 million dollars. This she got from her programs and books published at the time of her death.

How Joe Lara Met Gwen Shamblin Lara?

Following the divorce event of David and Gwen, Joe Lara gets to know her while working as a handyman in Tennessee. They had a short relationship, before tying the knot on August 18, 2018. The couple has a YouTube channel titled “Life with Joe and Gwen” where they give their followers the full details of their relationship. 

Gwen Personal Life

The author, Gwen, lived with her family in Ashlawn, a historic mansion in Brentwood, Tennessee, that was built in 1838. She was the wife of David Shamblin, with whom she had two children (1978), but later divorced him and got married to Joe Lara, she also had seven grandchildren and had authors titled Rise Above (2000) and Exodus Devotional (2002), which added to her books. 

Gwen Shamblin Lara’s Death

Unfortunately for the author, her husband Joe, and her daughter Hannah’s husband, Brandon Hannah, alongside four members of the Remnant church, had an air crash while flying in a private jet from Tennessee’s Smyma airport to Port Beach, Florida and had the plane crash in Percy Priest Lake. Gwen died at age 66 while Joe was 58, an incident in 2021.

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