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On April 2, 2015, Grove called her father, said "I need you in Wells," and hung up the phone. Four hours later, Grove was seen walking down U.S. Highway 69 headed towards Lufkin, Texas. A few minutes after crossing the Angelina County line, she called 9-1-1 using a motorist's cell phone. During the call, Grove sounded "frightened" and "confused."
The Grove is located on Farm to Market Road 1114 and Texas State Highway 36, 16 mi (26 km) southeast of Gatesville, 36 mi (58 km) southwest of Waco, and 85 mi (137 km) north of Austin via Interstate 35 in eastern Coryell County. It is also a two-hour drive from the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. [2]
Highland Park UMC Sanctuary. The current sanctuary was designed by architect Mark Lemmon (1889–1975) and Roscoe DeWitt (1894-1975) and built in 1927. [3][4] The first service in the sanctuary was held on February 6, 1927, when Dr Umphrey Lee served as the pastor. [3] The Great Depression came and it took 15 years to pay off the debt.
Gateway Church in Southlake, Texas on July 2, 2024. (Nitashia Johnson for NBC News) Griffing, now in his 80s, later served as a pastor and elder under Morris at Gateway Church.
August 29, 2024 at 1:33 PM. A Texas megachurch entrenched in scandal has seen a significant dip in attendance in recent weeks. Gateway Church has seen a mass exodus after its founder, Robert ...
Robert Morris (born July 29, 1961) is a former American televangelist pastor who founded Gateway Church, a megachurch based in Southlake, Texas, in 2000. He served as senior pastor at the church until 2024, when he resigned after allegations that he engaged in sexual misconduct with a 12-year-old girl in the 1980s.
Morris’ behavior was “brought to light” in 1987 while he was a pastor at Shady Grove Church in Grand Prairie, which has since become one of Gateway Church’s 11 locations, WFAA reported.
Gateway Church is a non-denominational, evangelical Christian multi-site megachurch based in Southlake, Texas, near Fort Worth. [1] As of 2023, it was ranked as the 9th largest in the United States, with attendance of 25,805. [2] In 2024, its founding pastor, Robert Morris, resigned after allegations of past sexual abuse of a minor.