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Robert Morris, founding pastor of the megachurch Gateway, delivers a sermon at the church in Fort Worth, Texas, in 2018. (Ilana Panich-Linsman for The New York Times / Redux Pictures)
In 1982, pastor Robert Morris was a 21-year-old husband and father who traveled the country telling young people about Jesus. Cindy Clemishire was a 12-year-old girl who dressed in flowery pink ...
Robert Morris has resigned as senior pastor at Gateway Church in Southlake, Texas, three days after confessing to engaging in “sexual behavior” with a child over the course of a few years in ...
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 had engaged in sexual misconduct with a 12-year-old girl in the 1980s.
On September 16, 1999, Pastor Robert Morris began to plan an evangelistic church in Southlake, Texas. Gateway Church's first service was held on Easter morning, April 23, 2000, at the Hilton Hotel in Grapevine. Approximately 180 people attended the service. The church grew, and moved to an old movie theater in Grapevine.
In 2011, Children's Rights, a New York-based national advocacy group working to reform child welfare systems, filed a federal class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas alleging the DFPS routinely fails to either return children who've been in foster care at least a year safely to their families or to ...
The 2020 suit claims Gateway leaders knew about the abuse after the child made an outcry to a youth minister. That youth leader went to others in the church, including pastors.
This resulted in the death of 477 children, as social workers cannot possibly provide a 24h-service to all the families they are responsible for. [11] Additionally, the child maltreatment report of 2016 states a number of 1,539 children that have been maltreated by their foster parents that year, within 51 reporting states. [12]