The son-in-law of televangelist Mark Barclay was convicted on Friday of sexually assaulting a girl for about six years. James Randolph, a former church leader at Living Word Church in Midland, Michigan, now potentially faces life in prison. Living Word Church was founded by Barclay, whose TV ministry reaches millions of viewers each week. Following two and a half hours of deliberations, Randolph was found guilty of all six counts he faced.| The Roys Report
When Newsboys owner Wes Campbell resigned from the Gospel Music Association board in July, he insisted he had “no idea” about the devastating behaviors by frontman Michael Tait. But many have called those claims into question. And Campbell’s Grammy-nominated band is on life support due to The Roys Report’s (TRR) investigation into Tait’s sexual misconduct, drug use, and alleged cover up by Newsboys’ management. Over the past few months, the band has lost its Canadian tour, multipl...| The Roys Report
It’s ChurchToo porn: A middle-aged man in front of a mirror taking a selfie of his naked butt while wearing a black sweatshirt emblazoned with the name of a major Canadian Christian ministry. “Jane Doe,” 60, a former volunteer for Battle for Canada, a revival ministry founded by Kelowna pastor Art Lucier, says the man with his pants down is Lucier himself. The selfie photo, which the volunteer says Lucier sent her in 2022, appears set in a mocha polyvinyl-paneled bathroom of a private r...| The Roys Report
A former teacher and youth pastor in west Texas has been charged with assaulting a child, according to court records. Jeremy Scott Maxfield, a former teacher and coach at Lubbock High School in Lubbock, Texas, was arrested last Wednesday. Victims have accused Maxfield, 41, of assaulting them while at the west Texas school or at an unspecified church in Amherst. Maxfield was initially charged with three counts of sexual assault of a child and one count of improper relationship between an educa...| The Roys Report
The chief fundraiser at a confessional Reformed seminary is facing federal charges of distributing “child pornography,” court documents confirm. Mid-America Reformed Seminary Vice President for Advancement Michael Deckinga, 41, is being held at the Hammond, Indiana, city jail. He is awaiting an August 27 hearing before Magistrate Judge John E. Martin, according to a motion filed by public defender Peter L. Boyles. If convicted, Deckinga could face between five and 20 years federal impriso...| The Roys Report
Daniel Floyd took the reins Sunday at scandal-scarred Gateway Church, the multicampus congregation whose founder, Robert Morris, faces a criminal child sexual abuse trial next month. Floyd pledged a “new chapter” for Gateway, which reportedly lost members and tithe dollars after details of Morris’s alleged crimes became public. Morris is accused of the rape and sexual abuse of a then-12-year-old girl, Cindy Clemishire, in 1982. In March, Morris was indicted on five counts of lewd or ind...| The Roys Report
A former intern at Life.Church, one of the largest megachurches in the country, is facing federal charges for allegedly possessing dozens of videos and images of child sexual abuse—some featuring infants and toddlers. Federal agents arrested Austin Sewell, 25, on July 24, after searching his home in Sand Springs, Oklahoma. He has been charged with receipt and distribution of child sexual abuse material and faces at 5-20 years in prison if convicted. Investigators used online data obtained t...| The Roys Report
Following multiple allegations of sexual assault against Michael Tait, police in Brentwood, Tennessee, have confirmed they are conducting a preliminary investigation into the former DC Talk and Newsboys singer. The news was confirmed on Monday by ChurchLeaders.com, after alleged victim Shawn Davis told People Magazine he was working with the Brentwood Police Department, located 11 miles south of Nashville, to press charges. “We’re trying to head this and do everything we can in our power ...| The Roys Report
A top leader of the nation’s largest Pentecostal denomination, the Assemblies of God (AG), last week apologized to the sex abuse victims of Daniel Savala, a convicted sex offender platformed for years by an AG-affiliated ministry. But AG General Secretary Donna Barrett denied the denomination was culpable for Savala’s abuse, despite admitting it had received a whistleblower report about Savala in 2018 and done nothing. “I am sad and concerned .| The Roys Report
Three former Gateway Church elders told a Dallas court they didn’t defame a sexual abuse victim of disgraced church founder, Robert Morris, despite knowing she was only 12 years old when the abuse started. The court filings involved former Gateway Executive Pastor Thomas Miller, Network Pastor Gayland Lawshe, and Elder Jeremy Carrasco—all removed from church leadership last November. They say they didn’t defame Cindy Clemishire when they said in 2024 that Morris “acknowledged ‘inapp...| The Roys Report
Truett McConnell University (TMU) trustees, shaken by a sex abuse scandal The Roys Report (TRR) revealed in May, will receive a third-party investigation’s results on an alleged coverup by September’s end. Until then, “the investigation is still ongoing,” Brandi Wood, TMU’s director of marketing and communications, told Baptist Press on August 6. The investigation centers on allegations that TMU’s president, Emir Caner, may have suppressed complaints from students and others that ...| The Roys Report
Federal investigators say the former assistant director of a Pennsylvania nonprofit that runs Christian ministries for children and teens used a hidden camera to take photos of girls in a bathroom. Daniel “Danny” Reed, 51, of Thompsontown, Pennsylvania, has been charged with possession, attempted production, and production of child sex abuse material, according to the United States Attorney for the Middle District of Pennsylvania. Reed worked as Central Pennsylvania Youth Ministries’ J...| The Roys Report
Warning: This article contains descriptions of sexual assault. As victims of Michael Tait continue to snowball, two more men have come forward and say the rock star sexually assaulted them while he was still in the band DC Talk. Since then, both men say the assaults wreaked havoc on their personal lives. As their careers spiraled down, Tait’s spiraled up. Randall Crawford, a Christian songwriter, and his friend Jason Jones, the founding manager of the American hard-rock band Evanescence, re...| The Roys Report
The elders of a Texas megachurch revealed that former pastor Josiah Anthony sent sexual messages to multiple women, prompting his resignation.| The Roys Report
New Jersey pastor Stephen Sweet has been arrested on charges he sexually abused a child, according to Bergen County Sheriff records.| The Roys Report