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John Steven Gaines (born December 31, 1957) is an American Southern Baptist pastor who has served as the president of the Southern Baptist Convention. [1] He resigned as senior pastor on September 22. 2024, to pursue an itinerant preaching ministry at Bellevue Baptist Church in Cordova (a suburb of Memphis, Tennessee), one of the largest congregations in the Southern Baptist Convention and has ...
John Gaines (died on June 5, 2024 [14]) Thomas Gaither (at the time, he was a field secretary with the Congress of Racial Equality and was the only one of the nine who was not a Friendship student; died on December 23, 2024 [15]) Clarence Graham (died on March 25, 2016 [16])
Widespread sexual abuse cases in Southern Baptist churches were reported by the Houston Chronicle and San Antonio Express-News on February 10, 2019. The report found roughly 380 clergy, lay leaders and volunteers had faced allegations of sexual misconduct, leaving behind over 700 victims [1] since 1998.
Gaines and other civil rights protesters from Rock Hill spent a month in jail after being convicted of trespassing. Friendship 9’s John Gaines dies at 83. SC civil rights group pioneered ‘jail ...
A pastor was arrested over allegations of his lewd, forceful sexual behavior from several workers at his cleaning company — just a day after he preached at his Oklahoma church about forgiveness.
A Michigan pastor was fired and now faces charges after allegedly placing a hidden camera inside a church bathroom on and off for the past two years to peep on specific church employees.
Another source reports Smith was arrested at least 42 times. [28] Smith was killed by a mob while in jail awaiting trial on charges of treason against Illinois. Jim Bakker - Created the PTL (Praise the Lord) organization. Convicted of fraud and conspiracy charges after illegally soliciting millions of dollars from his followers. [29]
Now LexCity Church, formerly Quest, is facing another scandal after former pastor Zachary King was arrested for allegedly having sex with a minor between January 2023 and April 2024. King, 47, is ...