ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A Virginia pastor and his wife have been convicted of defrauding members of their congregation and investors in a Nigerian oil scheme.

Fifty-three-year-old Terry Wayne Millender and 57-year-old Brenda Millender were convicted by a federal jury Monday of a $2 million fraud scheme, according to the United States Attorney's office for the Eastern District of Virginia.

Terry Millender is the former senior pastor of Victorious Life Church in Alexandria.

Prosecutors said the couple recruited investors for companies they said provided small loans to poor people in developing countries and helped broker Nigerian oil deals. Prosecutors said the Millenders used investor money to pay for golf trips, a birthday party, and to help purchase a $1.75 million home.

The Millenders are set to be sentenced in March.

“It didn't really come as a shock—it was more of a sigh of relief,” congregation member Eric Brown told Fox 5 after the couple’s 2016 arrest. “I asked him like, ‘Hey, that's a nice car.’ He said, ‘Yeah, $100,000 car. If you save up your money, God's going to bless you.’ Come to find out now, it was actually part of our money.”

According to the Alexandria Times, the couple will be sentenced on March 30. Co-conspirator Grenetta Wells was convicted of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. She’ll be sentenced Jan. 12.

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