Pastor and author John Ortberg reportedly allowed a volunteer who had confessed to being attracted to minors continue to working with children.
According to a statement released by the Menlo Church’s elder board, in July 2018, a volunteer in the Menlo Church confessed to Ortberg an “unwanted thought pattern of attraction to minors.”
“The person assured, to John’s satisfaction, that the person had not acted on the attraction and sought John’s support,” the board wrote. “John believed the person and provided prayers and referrals for counseling.”
Ortberg did not tell anyone about the volunteer and allowed the church member to continue volunteering with children.
Ortberg’s estranged son, Daniel Lavery, learned of the conversation between Ortberg and the volunteer and decided to report the information to the church’s elder board.
According to a letter posted by Lavery to Twitter, the volunteer also came to him to confess “obsessive sexual feelings about young children.” Lavery said the volunteer also told him that they looked for “unsupervised volunteer positions with children” as a way of “treating this obsession,” including overnight travel with children.
Additionally, the volunteer reportedly told Lavery that they had originally confessed to Ortberg in 2018.
Lavery said he asked his father and mother, Nancy, about the 2018 conversation,…
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