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In April 2014, Bob Coy resigned as the senior pastor and president of Calvary Chapel Fort Lauderdale after admitting to adultery and saying he had an addiction to pornography. Coy spent a year in Chattanooga, Tennessee , at that city's Calvary Chapel to undergo a "restoration process," while the church board appointed Doug Sauder to take Coy's ...
In 2008, Calvary Chapel Ft. Lauderdale and Calvary Christian Academy faced a multimillion-dollar lawsuit related to the 2004 adoption of a teenage girl through the church's 4KIDS program. The girl was sexually abused by her adoptive father. [13] [14] The case was dismissed because the abuse occurred in the family home by a family member.
A source claimed Frisbee contracted AIDS and died from complications associated with the condition; [11] At his funeral at the Crystal Cathedral, Calvary Chapel's Chuck Smith eulogized Frisbee as a spiritual son and said he was a Samson-like figure, saying that he was a man through whom God did many great works, but that he was the victim of ...
Calvary Chapel does not regard baptism as necessary for salvation, but instead sees it as an outward sign of an inward change. As a result, the Chapels do not baptize infants, although they may dedicate them to God. Calvary Chapel views Communion in a symbolic way, with reference to 1 Corinthians 11:23–26.
Emails from 2005 released by Cindy Clemishire show how Gateway Church pastor Robert Morris responded after she asked for “restitution” for sex abuse she says began when she was 12.
At the beginning of the Jesus movement and into the 1970s, Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa was the home church of two pioneering Jesus music groups, Children of the Day and Love Song. Both had their early albums released on the Chuck Smith-created music label, Maranatha! Music. As of 2009, there are more than 1500 Calvary Chapel congregations worldwide.
Charles Ward "Chuck" Smith (June 25, 1927 – October 3, 2013) was an American pastor who founded the Calvary Chapel movement. Beginning with the 25-person Costa Mesa congregation in 1965, Smith's influence now extends to "more than 1,000 churches nationwide and hundreds more overseas", [1] some of which are among the largest churches in the United States.
In 2015, an article was written for the Mennonite Quarterly Review published by Goshen College in Goshen, Indiana entitled "Sexual Abuse by Church Leaders and Healing for Victims" defining "clergy sexual abuse", explaining some potential sociological and psychological explanations for the occurrence of sexual abuse by spiritual leaders, and ...