On This Date at MinistryWatch
Promise Keepers event canceled, GRACE investigation of Chris Rice, Kanakuk petition, Darrin Patrick’s death ruled a suicide
ONE YEAR AGO: On June 22, 2023, MinistryWatch reported that Belmont University pulled the plug on the Promise Keepers event set to be hosted at the school on September 29. Read more here.
TWO YEARS AGO: On June 22, 2022, MinistryWatch reported that the report from an 18-month investigation by the independent group Godly Response to Abuse in the Christian Environment (GRACE) detailed how Dove Award-winning Christian musician Chris Rice groomed and sexually abused a teen boy at Tates Creek Presbyterian Church, a Presbyterian Church in America congregation in Lexington, Kentucky. Rice declined to speak with GRACE investigators. Read more here.
THREE YEARS AGO: On July 2, 2021, MinistryWatch reported that a petition calling on Kanakuk Ministries to show greater transparency and accountability reached 15,000 signatures. Read more here.
FOUR YEARS AGO: On July 3, 2020, MinistryWatch reported that megachurch pastor Darrin Patrick’s cause of death was officially ruled a suicide, according to the Franklin County Sheriff’s Department. Patrick died May 7, 2020, in Pacific, Missouri, just outside St. Louis. The cause of death was a gunshot wound. Patrick was a teaching pastor at Seacoast Church, a multisite megachurch based in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, and the founding pastor of the Journey Church in St. Louis, where he lived. Read more here.
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