Terry Jones Might Move to Tampa

Wayne Sapp, associate pastor for the Dove World Outreach Center, told the St. Petersburg Times, Pastor Terry Jones is looking to move the church to the Tampa Bay area.

"We have actually been looking for about a year," said Sapp. "One of the reasons that we are looking at the Tampa-St. Petersburg area is the diversity that is there. Here in Gainsville, this is a very liberal area, pretty much controlled by the university. WE feel like the Tampa-St. Pete area is much more metropolitan and people would be much more apt to come out and find out (about the church) for themselves."

An area that can elect social conservatives like Ronda Storms, Brian Blair and Bill Foster is probably more welcoming for a church that nearly did a Koran burning.

The Gainesville property for the DWOC is worth $2.9 million. Jones is asking for $1.1 million. Jones is broke and has got into tax trouble with the Alachua County Property Appraiser's office for using church property for for-profit Ebay online furniture store. Jones' Germany church was raided by the government's tax authorities. Jones eventually moved. The pattern seems to be Jones falls into debt and then moves his church.