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Immanuel Baptist Church selected Fayetteville attorney Travis Story last month to help with its new Child Safety and Sexual Abuse Prevention program, a member of the congregation's finance team told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette on Thursday.
Immanuel Baptist Church selected Fayetteville attorney Travis Story last month to help with its new Child Safety and Sexual Abuse Prevention program, a member of the congregation's finance team told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette on Thursday.
When Immanuel Baptist Church's board of deacons met Sunday to discuss Lead Pastor Steven Smith's handling of child sex abuse accusations, three deacons with relatives who have reported abuse were barred from entering the room, according to one of the deacons who was denied entrance.
Steven W. Smith, pastor of the more than century-old Immanuel Baptist Church in Little Rock, Arkansas, apologized to his congregation Sunday for not disclosing that a former church official charged with guiding children had been credibly accused of abusing minors at the church while their parents were busy with worship.
Months before Immanuel Baptist Church Lead Pastor Steven Smith apologized to his congregation for failing to tell them about an accusation that a former ministry staffer had sexually abused a child, a church employee resigned over Smith's handling of a different matter involving a minor.