Megachurch pastor Joel Osteen is calling in a few of his famous friends to take part in the Lakewood Church’s virtual Easter Sunday service.
Osteen, 57, who has been delivering his sermons online since March, has invited Mariah Carey, Tyler Perry and Kanye West, along with the rapper’s Sunday Service choir, to each take over a segment of the Lakewood Church live feed. “It just all came together,” says Osteen. “It just kind of fell into place.” “I had known Mariah from years past,” the televangelist tells TMZ, explaining that Carey had summoned him to help her “do her part to bring hope and uplift the nation,” by putting together a tribute to health-care workers and first responders on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic.