The president of the International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention has announced that two investigations are underway regarding the board’s handling of past sexual abuse allegations within the organization.
In a statement that was released this week, David Platt, who has served as the organization’s president since 2014, said that he wanted to speak out amid reports related to the 21-year-old allegation of sexual abuse against Mark Aderholt, a former youth pastor who then became an IMB missionary and subsequently served in other ministry leadership roles within the denomination.
Baptist Press reported Wednesday that the IMB investigated the matter internally in 2007 when they learned of it, and it was scheduled to go before the board of trustees, “which, at that time, was the only group with the authority to terminate a member of our missionary personnel,” according to written comments from IMB spokesperson Julie McGowan. But Aderholt resigned on his own before the board could vote on what to do. The IMB’s policy has reportedly been revamped such that missionaries…
… Read More
—-
Click Read More to read the rest of the story from our content source/partners – The Christian Post.