Tim Somers, a nationally known formative years pastor at Steven Furtick’s Elevation Church in North Carolina, has been disregarded following allegations of sinful behavior attractive outdated skool students at Oaks Church in Texas. The allegations date inspire approximately 12 years within the past, when Somers served at the Assemblies of God congregation.
“As soon as Elevation realized about these allegations, we reached out to native Texas authorities and directly positioned Tim on leave,” Elevation Church said in a observation to The Christian Publish. “No prices maintain been filed. However Tim understands how impactful these allegations are for his role in ministry, and now we maintain agreed he’ll no longer aid on workers.”
Somers had been on workers at Elevation Church for over eight years, all by which he was once actively eager with Elevation Rhythm, the church’s formative years tune ministry. He time and all over again hosted events and contributed to the ministry’s outreach efforts.
Somers’ dismissal comes as the same allegations maintain surfaced in opposition to Jerry Nickerson, one other outdated skool formative years chief at Oaks Church. Nickerson, who interned at Oaks from 2009 to 2011 before joining the workers in 2011, was once no longer too long within the past terminated from his role as a pupil pastor at Hope Fellowship Church in Frisco, Texas. Hope Fellowship acknowledged that his firing followed a voluntary confession to “sinful contact with a minor” at Oaks Church greater than a decade within the past.
Oaks Church has confirmed that Nickerson’s confession pertained to his time with their congregation, and authorities maintain been notified. In the wake of his admission, extra outdated skool students maintain advance forward with allegations of misconduct, including reports of sinful messages and interactions between formative years leaders and minors.
“Mr. Tim Somers’s identify has advance up but no prices in opposition to him maintain been filed at the moment, and as beforehand acknowledged, this is an ongoing investigation,” said Red Oaks’ Chief of Police Garland Wolf. “These are extreme allegations that will per chance or will affect a individual’s lifestyles for heaps of years. We are doing what now we maintain to attach to creep trying for justice for the victims, prosecute the offenders, and exonerate the harmless as might per chance be the case.”
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