President Trump’s spiritual adviser Paula White turned control of her megachurch over to her son and his wife this week, saying she is adopting an “apostolic overseer” role of the church—renamed City of Destiny—and following her call to “govern” the pastors of the 3,000 new churches she intends to plant, and the university she says she’ll be launching.

According to the Christian Post, White announced on Sunday—after it was a legal fait accompli—that her son and daughter-in-law were being installed as senior pastors over the church, which she said she had done in response to God’s command and in fulfillment of a prophesy from the church’s founding pastor, Zachery Tims. (The Christian Post noted that Tims “died accidentally on Aug. 14, 2011, in the W. Hotel in Times Square, New York, from “acute intoxication by the combined effects of cocaine and heroin.”)

In their book “The Rise of Network Christianity,” religion scholars Brad Christerson and Richard Flory explored the growth of “Independent Network Christianity” and the phenomenon of religious leaders like White who operate outside the constraints and accountability structures of traditional denominations. It allows charismatic individuals broad leeway to expand their influence by building networks of followers—including other pastors and evangelists to whom they offer spiritual “covering”—who attend their conferences, buy their books, and send them money.

The “product” that INC Christianity is promoting, they write, is the ability “to participate in the establishment of God’s kingdom on earth in the here and now.” As the key, if unofficial, liaison to evangelical leaders for the Trump administration, White has a pretty good perch at the White House to work on that part of her mission. She has called her relationship with Trump an “assignment” from God.

As noted in a Right Wing Watch report on the Trump-supporting POTUS Shield network, “Trump’s relationship to traditional political structures mimics these network leaders’ relationship to traditional church and Religious Right institutions: He relies on his charismatic personality; operates his own media; and believes old structures need to be swept away.”

White is known as a “prosperity gospel” preacher; she recently told supporters that they would receive special financial and other blessings from God in return for sending her money during Passover. Her new move—she’ll continue to operate Paula White Ministries—also suggests something else Trump’s Religious Right backers have in common with the president. Many of them treat their multi-million-dollar ministries as family businesses, employing multiple generations of family members. Consider a few examples: