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Adam Lewis, a youth pastor at Rock Mountain Lakes Baptist Church in McCalla, Alabama, a school teacher, and a wrestling coach, stands accused of possession of child pornography.
A Pelham middle school teacher and wrestling coach who also doubled as the youth director of a McCalla church was arrested and jailed Wednesday on child porn charge.
Adam Jeremy Lewis, an eighth grade teacher at Pelham Park Middle School and an assistant coach for the school’s wrestling team, was charged with possessing child pornography. He was released from the Shelby County Jail after posting $15,000 bond, jail records showed.
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Lewis was also youth director at Rock Mountain Lakes Baptist Church in McCalla.
The church said Lewis is no longer working there and that Lewis and his family “need our prayers in a major way.”
“This is a devastating moment for our church family, but I know God is working,” the church said in a message to parishioners on its Facebook page.
Rock Mountain Lakes Baptist released a statement yesterday, asking prayer for Lewis and his family. No mention was made of children portrayed in the alleged pornographic images.
Bruce Gerencser, 67, lives in rural Northwest Ohio with his wife of 46 years. He and his wife have six grown children and thirteen grandchildren. Bruce pastored Evangelical churches for twenty-five years in Ohio, Texas, and Michigan. Bruce left the ministry in 2005, and in 2008 he left Christianity. Bruce is now a humanist and an atheist.
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He needs their prayers? What about the kids in the porn he watched? Or the kids (or adults?) folks like him sexually exploit?
If it feels too warm wherever you are, it’s because my blood is boiling.