Career
Grant was convicted in 1996 of tax evasion, and since his release from prison he has restarted his ministry. Grant began his early pastoral career in Cincinnati, Ohio, in the mid-1970s with the "Cathedral of Compassion" in the poor Over-the-Rhine area of Cincinnati before relocating to the suburbs of St Bernard until the early 1980s. The son of minister Walter Vinson Grant, Sr., in 1983 Grant took over Soul's Harbor Church (located in the Oak Cliff section of Dallas) and expanded its ministry, later renaming the church as "Eagles Nest Cathedral". In 1987, Grant purchased 28 acres (11 hectares) in the southwest section of Dallas (near Dallas Baptist University) and built the "Eagle's Nest Family Church", and continued pastoring the 5000-seat church until 1996.
He is married to Brenda Gayle Hayes, and has three adult children, Misty, Barry and Mark. Brenda is the daughter of Alton Hayes (1929–2002) and his wife, Maxine; they were ministers affiliated with The Voice of Healing.
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