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🗓️ 19 June 2025
⏱️ 68 minutes
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0:00.0 | In recent court documents, Disgraced Pastor Robert Morris said he told all the elders at Gateway Church three times that he had molested a child. |
0:11.3 | In 2005, 2007, and 2011, Morris claims he told the elders all the details that his victim, Cindy Clemishire, was only 12 when the abuse started |
0:22.0 | and 17 when it stopped. But two of the most prominent elders from that time say they had no idea. |
0:28.7 | I was on my couch. The phone rang. Pam was sitting there and I put it on speakerphone because |
0:33.8 | it was a long-time friend of mine. And Pam listened to the phone call. And we went, what? I mean, you can't imagine. |
0:41.0 | Pastor Brady Boyd is now the senior pastor of New Life Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado. |
0:46.5 | But from 2001 to 2007, he served as both an elder and an associate senior pastor at Gateway Church |
0:53.3 | under Robert Morris. Similarly, |
0:55.9 | well-known Bible teacher Jimmy Evans served as either a Gateway Elder or Apostolic Elder during |
1:01.5 | all the years Morris says he disclosed his abuse to Gateway's board. Evans also frequently |
1:06.8 | filled in for Morris on weekends. But in a letter to supporters last week, Evans claimed Morris deceived him, first saying he had an affair with a woman, then saying the girl was 16 years old. |
1:18.7 | 16 was the legal age of consent in Oklahoma at the time. |
1:22.7 | Evans wrote, had Morris told me the truth about Ms. Clemishire's age and the extent of the abuse, |
1:28.3 | I would have immediately reported him to the appropriate authorities. But is this true? |
1:33.7 | In 2007, something happened at New Life Church that caused quite a stir both at New Life and at Gateway. |
1:40.1 | First, New Life founding pastor Ted Haggard resigned amid a sex scandal that captured national headlines. |
1:46.5 | Then, the church appointed a nine-member pastoral search committee to find a replacement for Haggard. |
1:52.2 | The committee was comprised of lay leaders, staff, and two prominent pastors, |
1:56.8 | executive pastor Lance Coles, and senior executive pastor Brian Newberg. |
2:01.6 | So nine of us began seeking the Lord. |
2:04.6 | What's next for New Life? Who's the next pastor? |
2:07.6 | At the beginning of August 2007, the committee invited Gateway Pastor Brady Boyd |
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