¶ Andrew Wommack, Charis, and Woodland Park cluster
This source cluster compiles direct institutional pages, nonprofit filing records, and narrower reporting on Andrew Wommack and Charis Bible College, with emphasis on Charis growth, Practical Government infrastructure, Truth & Liberty candidate-training activity, Woodland Park influence claims, and the limits of the current evidence.
The strongest direct layer here comes from Charis institutional pages and the Charis catalog, plus ProPublica nonprofit records for Andrew Wommack Ministries. That direct layer is supplemented by narrower reporting and response material from MinistryWatch, Baptist News Global, and Colorado Times Recorder. The cluster is strong enough to support durable pages for Andrew Wommack and Andrew Wommack Ministries, plus stronger Charis context, but it is not enough to harden every adjacent NAR or Seven Mountains claim into settled fact.
- Charis Bible College's own program pages and 2023-2024 catalog confirm that Andrew Wommack is a repeated leadership presence in the Charis environment and that Charis runs a
Practical Government School.
- The Charis Practical Government page directly ties Richard Harris and Truth & Liberty to that program.
- CTR reporting on a 2021 Colorado GOP candidate-training push adds a narrower campaign-training layer around the Truth & Liberty Coalition. In that article, a spokesperson says the coalition's May 8
Candidate Academy on the Charis campus was a "home grown" course acting as an extension of Andrew Wommack in cooperation with Practical Government School.
- ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer provides direct nonprofit metadata for Andrew Wommack Ministries in Woodland Park, including longstanding tax-exempt status and filing availability.
- A newer affiliate and county-record pass adds a partial legal-structure map around New Life Association, New Life Holding Corporation, older and newer Charis entity layers, and the multi-part Truth & Liberty structure.
- MinistryWatch reporting adds a narrower local-governance and tax-status layer around Charis student housing in Woodland Park in 2022.
- Baptist News Global reporting adds a stronger public quote layer around Wommack's call to "take over" Woodland Park and ties it to local school-district and city-politics conflict.
- The newer CTR candidate-training article preserves a second local-power quote layer, reporting that Wommack said in a promotional video that he wanted to "take over Woodland Park" and eventually El Paso County.
- Colorado Times Recorder reporting after the Club Q massacre preserves a separate public-commentary layer about Wommack's anti-LGBTQ rhetoric on a Truth & Liberty broadcast.
- The CTR response letter from Andrew Wertz is useful as an explicit organizational rebuttal and for role typing inside Andrew Wommack Ministries / Charis Bible College, not as independent verification.
- 1979-05: ProPublica records show Andrew Wommack Ministries as tax-exempt from May 1979.
- 2021-05: CTR reports that Truth & Liberty Coalition held a one-day
Candidate Academy on the Charis campus, described by a spokesperson as a course developed in cooperation with Practical Government School and promoted with Wommack's stated desire to "take over Woodland Park."
- 2022-08: MinistryWatch reports Woodland Park approved Charis student housing without local taxation.
- 2022-12: CTR reports Wommack's post-Club-Q broadcast comments on homosexuality and media coverage.
- 2023-08 to 2023-09: Baptist News and CTR response material place Wommack, Charis, and Woodland Park politics in a more explicit local-power dispute.
- 2023-2024: Charis catalog documents Practical Government School leadership and roster ties.
- 2026-04-10: a bounded public-record refresh documents a partial affiliate structure around AWM, Charis, Truth & Liberty, New Life Association, and New Life Holding Corporation, plus a Teller County property-holder layer.
- Religious education institutions as local political infrastructure
- Government-training programs tied to Christian-worldview framing
- Direct institutional records versus critical or oppositional reporting
¶ Evidence limits and open questions
- Charis pages are institutional self-description and are strongest for program structure, leadership language, and roster ties.
- Baptist News, MinistryWatch, and CTR add narrower independent or adversarial reporting, but they do not on their own settle every broader doctrinal or network claim about Wommack.
- The 2021 candidate-training layer is currently preserved through CTR reporting and a quoted Truth & Liberty spokesperson statement rather than through a separately retained direct event page in the repo.
- The current repo still has thinner support for exact present-day governance structure inside Truth & Liberty and for exactly how far Seven Mountains language is operationalized by Wommack himself rather than by adjacent critics or interpreters.
- The cluster now supports a partial legal-structure map and a bounded property-holder layer, but not a full chart across every adjacent ministry, affiliate, initiative, and parcel.