Who was the American Baptist pastor, and former president of Maranatha Baptist Bible College involved in a sex scandal involving the rape of a minor at Trinity Baptist Church in Concord, New Hampshire?
Chuck Phelps Dr. Charles Phelps, more commonly known as Chuck, is an American Baptist pastor. He has worked in the ministry for over thirty years, and currently is the senior pastor at Colonial Hills Baptist Church in Indianapolis. Prior to working in Indianapolis, he pastored a Baptist church in Concord, New Hampshire, United States, for several years. He was the head of the church during the Trinity Baptist Church sex scandal. He became the president of Maranatha Baptist Bible College in 2007 and was replaced in 2010. He also served on his alma mater Bob Jones University's Board of Trustees prior to 2011.
John Cross Jr. John H. Cross Jr. (January 27, 1925 – November 15, 2007) was an American pastor and Civil Rights activist. He was best known as the pastor of the 16th Street Baptist Church, an African American Baptist congregation in Birmingham, Alabama, at the time of church's racially motivated bombing in 1963. The bombing, which ripped through the church and killed four young girls, became a rallying cry for the Civil Rights Movement and propelled the problems of racial segregation in The South into the national spotlight. Cross spent much of the rest of his life working for racial reconciliation in the South.