en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Barnett

Angelus Temple’s own current Who We Are page identifies Brad Reed and Stella Reed as "ANGELUS TEMPLE LEAD PASTOR". It does not list Matthew Barnett as the church’s current lead/senior pastor.

A separate Dream Center post from February 19, 2026 also describes Matthew Barnett’s time at Angelus Temple as a completed 25-year chapter: Barnett wrote, "25 of the most amazing years at Angelus Temple... I will cherish this season of my life forever" and referred to "what is next". That wording indicates he is no longer serving in the role described here.

So while Matthew Barnett previously led Angelus Temple, the article’s present-tense statement that he "is ... senior pastor of the Angelus Temple" is no longer accurate.

This sentence appears to combine two different milestones in the Dream Center’s history.

On the Dream Center’s official history page, 1994 is the year Tommy and Matthew Barnett started the Dream Center in Los Angeles. The same page separately states that in 1996 "The Dream Center purchased the former Queen of Angels Hospital campus in Echo Park."

Independent reporting by the Los Angeles Times matches that timeline. In a 2005 article about the ministry, the paper states: "In 1996, in need of more space, the church bought the abandoned Queen of Angels building on 8.8 acres for $3.9 million and named it the Dream Center."

So the article’s claim that the hospital was purchased in September 1994 is incorrect; 1994 was the start of the ministry, while the hospital purchase is consistently dated to 1996 in these sources.