Trigger warning. This podcast contains descriptions of various abusive situations. Listener discretion is advised.

You are listening to the Preacher Boys podcast, a podcast shedding light on decades of mental, physical, and sexual abuse within the independent fundamental Baptist movement.

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Now, here's your host, Eric Squarsinski.

Hey, everybody, welcome back to the Preacher Boys podcast. Today's story comes out of North

Valley Baptist Church in Santa Clara, California, pastored by Jack Treber. Jack Treber has

established himself as one of the biggest names in independent fundamental Baptist circles.

Treber will be a featured speaker at two IFB conferences this month alone. On March 18,

2004, he is speaking at the Old Pass Conference in Bethany, Oklahoma, with Tony Hudson,

Ellen Domily, and Bruce Goddard, the last of whom you likely recognize from the recent Max documentary, Let Us Pray,

A Ministry of Scandals, which exposed his numerous cover-ups of sexual abuse.

Immediately after the Old Past Conference, he will be on the platform of First Baptist Church

in Hammond, Indiana, one of the most prominent churches in

IFB circles, and also, no stranger to scandals, for the servants conference, alongside Tom Williams,

Andy Dahl, David Gibbs, and John Wilkerson. While Treber is an oft-praised figure within

fundamentalism, he and his church have also drawn much criticism from former

members and ex-fundamentalists in general for his proximity to and direct involvement with

some major scandals associated with the IFB. In fact, one of the earliest alleged IFB abusers that

I ever stumbled upon was that of Treber's brother-in-law, Mike Strofe,

whose name is mentioned on the now inactive watchdog site, Chuckles Travels, and a handful of

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