A new lawsuit says a Lexington pastor is accused of embezzling money and asking for more pay after purchasing a home.

This isn’t the first lawsuit filed regarding Southern Acres Christian Church. The first one was dismissed while church members tried to work out disagreements within the church but a new lawsuit alleges the pastor took $100,000 in church money.

The new suit was filed last Friday by church members James Keogh and Chad Martin and names Southern Acres Christian Church lead pastor Cameron McDonald as the defendant.

The civil suit alleges that after McDonald and his wife purchased a $530,000 dollar home in Jessamine County in 2016 the pastor insisted the church increase his pay.

It says he removed several members of the church's board, leaving it with only three members, him, his wife, and pastor Tim Jones.

Keogh says he wrote a check to the church for $170,000 in December of 2016, most of which was supposed to go to paying off the church's mortgage debt.

The suit says instead, $100,000 of that money went to McDonald or his wife.

Another allegation made in the lawsuit is that McDonald fired the church’s office manager so that she wouldn’t have any knowledge of the church's finances should law-enforcement ask her about them.

In January of this year an off-duty police officer kept some church members who had been "disfellowshipped" from entering the church.

On February 4 church members voted 173-0 to remove McDonald as pastor, a vote his attorney said was improper.

The lawsuit is asking for monetary damages and a jury trial.

McDonald's attorney didn't answer our request for a statement.

Court records show a church member, Bill Powell, has filed an eviction notice to remove McDonald from the church. That is set to go to trial next week.