Earlier this year, Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Scott Turner invited Christian nationalist worship leader and right-wing political activist Sean Feucht to join him when he toured Los Angeles to survey the devastation wrought by wildfires that had ravaged the region. During the trip, Feucht not only worshiped with Turner but bragged that he and other religious leaders had been brought in to share "God's strategy" on how to rebuild the region.
As a result of the close ties between Feucht and Turner, the federal government is sponsoring a worship service to be led by Feucht on the National Mall on Saturday, Sept. 6, with Feucht bragging that this is the first time in history that "the federal government would literally host a worship service on the National Mall."
"Join HUD as we say thank you to faith leaders from across the country who stepped up in America’s time of need to serve their community," Turner posted on social media. "Excited to have Pastors & special musical guest, Sean Feucht this Saturday, from 6-8 PM, on the National Mall at the Smithsonian Metro Stop."
Join HUD as we say thank you to faith leaders from across the country who stepped up in America’s time of need to serve their community.
Excited to have Pastors & special musical guest, Sean Feucht this Saturday, from 6-8 PM, on the National Mall at the Smithsonian Metro Stop. pic.twitter.com/EjJRRhzTSW— Scott Turner (@SecretaryTurner) September 4, 2025
The announcement itself says that the prayer service is being "Presented By The U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development."
Feucht is an ardent religious-right political activist, MAGA cultist and unabashed Christian nationalist who maintains close ties to members of Congress and the Trump administration.
In 2023, Feucht he was given a “defender of liberty" award by far-right pastor Matt Shea, a former Republican member of the Washington state House of Representatives who was stripped of his committee assignments and booted out of the party in 2019 in the wake of a report detailing how he had “participated in an act of domestic terrorism” and “planned, engaged in and promoted a total of three armed conflicts of political violence against the United States Government in three states outside the state of Washington over a three-year period.”
