I beg that you and your wife Sandra please take some time to look at a few pictures of your precious daughter Katie, back when she was 14 years old. Andy WAS our full-time, ordained Youth Pastor at Woodlands Parkway Baptist Church (WPBC). AndyвЂ™s grooming of me in the youth group began three years earlier when I was just 14 years old. This sex crime did not just occur on one spring night in 1998. I would like to thank you again for speaking with me last week, regarding my request that Germantown Baptist Church formally revoke the ordination of Andy Savage.ДЄs you take the time to carefully and prayerfully consider this solemn request, I would like to draw your attention to a few facts regarding this request and AndyвЂ™s disqualifying behavior.

However, it is a wonderful letter from a woman crying out of justice. If you want to go directly to their stunningly blind response, skip this section. She carefully outlines the pain that she suffered at the hands of SavageвЂ™s hands when he was her youth pastor AFTER he was ordained by Germantown Baptist Church. We have it on good authority that, from time to time, ordinations have been revoked. Here is the letter that Jules sent to Germantown Baptist Church, explaining why she was requesting that SavageвЂ™s ordination should be revoked. Can anyone confirm this? Does that make things awkward? And does avoiding *awkward * trump doing the right and caring thing? But sadly, there are far too many.Дo these leaders even have a bit of caring in their souls for those who have been abused by pastors? Does this church even care that their homeboy, Andy Savage, went on to molest Jules Woodson AFTER he was ordained by this church? Or is there something else at play here? I have heard from reliable sources that Andy SavageвЂ™s family are (or have been) members of this church. I am not saying all of them are like this. Sadly, I think some are getting their cues from leaders in the SBC, like this response from SBCвЂ™s Credential Committee. There are way too many pastors whoвЂ™ve indulged in such behavior, successfully covering it up for themselves and who are quite comfortable in letting their similarly affected brethren off the hook. This response by the *leadership* (I wonder what the term really means these days) of Germantown Baptist Church, TN, reinforces for me that the Southern Baptist Convention is made up of many churches which will continue to act coldly, shamefully and autonomously, especially when it come to sex abuse.

вЂњTo keep a warm heart in winter is the real victory.вЂќ вЂ• Marty Rubin A bleak day at Germantown Baptist Church link

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