CALDWELL and FAYETTE counties: Flood watch will be in effect from 7 AM Wednesday through 1 PM Thursday. Heavy rain likely.FILE - Pastor Robert Morris applauds during a roundtable discussion at Gateway Church Dallas Campus, Thursday, June 11, 2020, in Dallas. A statement issued on Tuesday, June 18, 2024, said that Morris has resigned after a woman said he had abused her on multiple occasions in the 1980s, beginning when she was 12.
Gateway Church's board of elders said in a statement Tuesday that they'd accepted the resignation of Robert Morris, the church's senior pastor and founder. The board said it had hired a law firm to to conduct an independent review to make sure they "have a complete understanding of the events" from 1982 to 1987.in an interview Saturday that she met Morris in 1981, when he was a traveling preacher and began preaching at her family's church in Oklahoma.
"It was kissing and petting and not intercourse, but it was wrong," he said in the statement. "This behavior happened on several occasions over the next few years."
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