Exposing the Corruption of the "Family Values" Party
Corey White was the youth pastor at Redeemer Midland, a church that’s statement of beliefs spends more text on anti-gay rhetoric than on communion, Jesus, and salvation combined. He was arrested for possession of Child Sexual Abuse Material. They fired him after his arrest.
James Hugh Pierson was on the City Council of Flower Mound, TX. He served two years before resigning shortly before his arrest for continuous sexual abuse of a child under 14, a first-degree felony, and indecency with a child/sexual contact, a second-degree felony. The child is a family member.
Jason Kerby is a Christian musician who was on the worship team at Beltway Park Worship and at First Baptist before that. He’s competed in Abilene Idol, coming in third place and has several songs on Apple Music.
Franklin Joseph Perkins is a former Eagle Scout leader, Martial Arts instructor, and gymnastics and cheerleading coach in Alvin, Texas.
Scott Saunders, Jr. was the mayor of Smithville, Texas. He was arrested in June 2021 and charged with two counts of sexual assault of a minor and one count of indecency with a child. In July 2023, he pled guilty, though the judge declared he was not guilty of one of the sexual assault charges.
Steve Morgan is the lead pastor at Joshua Church in Austin, Texas. He founded The Network, a collaboration of evangelical charismatic churches. Before that, though, he was convicted of raping a fifteen-year-old boy.
He was convicted in 1986. He served his time.
Steve Morgan is the lead pastor at Joshua Church in Austin, Texas. He founded The Network, a collaboration of evangelical charismatic churches. Before that, though, he was convicted of raping a fifteen-year-old boy.
He was convicted in 1986. He was offered diversion, a way to get a clean criminal record. .
But he never divulged his history to his congregation. He could tell this story as one of redemption through faith, but instead he hid it from people who brought their children to church with them.
Daniel Savala moved to Texas and became an itinerant pastor, going from Chi Alpha chapter to another. He was associated with five chapters, teaching youth that his sexual abuse was a spiritual rite. Chi Alpha did not tell the students who participated in their events that Savala was a sex offender allowing his to sexually abuse or rape at least thirteen victims. Hundl even brought family members aged 11 and 12 to Savala to be abused. There are often allegations of child sexual abuse networks. This was one.
Daniel Savala was a youth pastor at Clover Pass Community Church in Ketchikan, Alaska, in the late 90s when he sexually abused children at the church. He was sentenced to two years in prison, but all but 90 days was suspended. Letters from Assemblies of God clergy organized by Eli Stewart and Eli Gautreaux pled for leniency. Savala has been associated with the Chi Alpha, a Christian campus ministry since at least 1989. He spent many years working as an itinerant pastor, going from one Chi Alpha chapter to another.
Matthew Porter was the youth pastor at Bethel Baptist Church in Bradenton, FL when he was caught secretly recording young Bible study students undressing in his home. He had a house sitter while on a trip to Mexico and the sitter discovered a hidden camera and reported it to police. The sitter gave police permission to search. They found cameras that Porter said were for security, but then they found recordings of the girls, ages 12 to 16. The recordings are Child Sexual Abuse Material even though he was not charged with it.
Christopher Hundl was the pastor of Mountain Valley Church and the Baylor University chapter of Chi Alpha, an ecumenical global campus ministry sponsored by the Assemblies of God. Baylor University is a Southern Baptist private university in Texas with a multi-denominational student body. Hundl was an employee of the Assemblies of God, not Baylor University. He resigned his position shortly before being arrested in May 2023 for allowing minors to be sexually abused by his spiritual mentor, Daniel Savala, a registered sex offender. At the time of his arrest, the sex offender was not named. Savala was arrested in June, 2023. The Chi Alpha chapter was also suspended by the University.