Tyler Jones dismissed by Acts 29 and Vintage Church.
Acts 29 VP and Vintage Church pastor dismissed from leadership roles after confessing to 'inappropriate relationship.'
Plus, CCM partnerships with child sponsorship programs, Acts 29 network accusations, and Furtick’s ‘spontaneous baptisms.’
This week, we look back at stories about Samaritan’s Purse avoiding Trump’s foreign aid freeze, a lack of transparency between CCM artists and the ministries they promote, and more.
Alan Noble on the cost of skepticism toward religious institutions
ONE YEAR AGO: On Jan. 21, 2025, MinistryWatch featured an opinion piece by O. Alan Noble about the risks people face when they “hold a posture of skepticism toward religious institutions?” Read more here. TWO ...
Last week, Coram Deo Church in Bremerton, Washington, published a letter explaining why the congregation would be leaving the church-planting Acts 29 Network chaired by mega-church pastor Matt Chandler.
Chandler sent overly familiar direct messages to a woman over Instagram, violating church policy.
(RNS) — A popular Dallas-area megachurch leader has been placed on indefinite leave for online communication with a woman who is not his wife.
The megachurch pastor will step down for at least six weeks while elders investigate charges against him
Mark Driscoll, pastor of Seattle’s Mars Hill Church, will relinquish leadership of the megachurch for at least six weeks while elders investigate charges against him.