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2 items... first, some info about an event of theirs a couple of years ago, that gave me a creepy feeling:
Event: God and Country Celebration - Great Hills Baptist Church
Date: 04-Jul-03
Location: Great Hills Baptist Church, Austin Texas
Description: We arrived around 6AM and began setting up the displays. We were also served a very nice breakfast consisting of breakfast tacos, scrambled eggs, sausage, bacon etc.... The first service began around 8AM. This service consisted of a patriotic video honoring the men and women of our armed forces. Members of all services took their spaces up on stage while their respective hymns were being played. In the middle of all this members of the Austin SWAT team rappelled down from the rafters in full gear.
At the end of the show the Marine Corp hymn was played and a group from the Admiral Nimitz Museum of the Pacific War (which included me) re-enacted the raising of the flag on Iwo Jima. After this show the church had their regular service.
lonestar-mvpa.org/events/20..._hills.htm
second, some recent news that gave me a creepy, wanna-be-sick feeling:
Great Hills Baptist Church official accused of sexually assaulting teen
By Claire Osborn, AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF
Wednesday, August 02, 2006
The minister of education at Austin's Great Hills Baptist Church has been accused by police of luring a 15-year-old boy into his car at a bus stop and sexually assaulting him. Austin police said Jerry Dale Carver, 51, was arrested Monday at his home and charged with sexual assault of a child in connection with the July 25 incident. The second-degree felony carries a maximum punishment of 20 years in prison.
Carver was released from the Travis County Jail on Monday night on $20,000 bail and could not be reached for comment. Carver told police that the teenager got into his vehicle willingly and initiated sexual contact with him, an arrest affidavit said.
Carver's arrest marks the second time that a leader at the 5,000-member Northwest Austin church has been accused of sexually assaulting a teen. In 1999, youth minister Charles Richard "Rick" Willits was sentenced to 15 years in prison after a jury found him guilty of sexually abusing a 14-year-old boy he met at church.
In Carver's case, police say they are looking for other possible victims. Sgt. Brian Loyd would not offer details but said detectives think Carver has picked up other minors at bus stops...
www.statesman.com/news/cont...ister.html
Event: God and Country Celebration - Great Hills Baptist Church
Date: 04-Jul-03
Location: Great Hills Baptist Church, Austin Texas
Description: We arrived around 6AM and began setting up the displays. We were also served a very nice breakfast consisting of breakfast tacos, scrambled eggs, sausage, bacon etc.... The first service began around 8AM. This service consisted of a patriotic video honoring the men and women of our armed forces. Members of all services took their spaces up on stage while their respective hymns were being played. In the middle of all this members of the Austin SWAT team rappelled down from the rafters in full gear.
At the end of the show the Marine Corp hymn was played and a group from the Admiral Nimitz Museum of the Pacific War (which included me) re-enacted the raising of the flag on Iwo Jima. After this show the church had their regular service.
lonestar-mvpa.org/events/20..._hills.htm
second, some recent news that gave me a creepy, wanna-be-sick feeling:
Great Hills Baptist Church official accused of sexually assaulting teen
By Claire Osborn, AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF
Wednesday, August 02, 2006
The minister of education at Austin's Great Hills Baptist Church has been accused by police of luring a 15-year-old boy into his car at a bus stop and sexually assaulting him. Austin police said Jerry Dale Carver, 51, was arrested Monday at his home and charged with sexual assault of a child in connection with the July 25 incident. The second-degree felony carries a maximum punishment of 20 years in prison.
Carver was released from the Travis County Jail on Monday night on $20,000 bail and could not be reached for comment. Carver told police that the teenager got into his vehicle willingly and initiated sexual contact with him, an arrest affidavit said.
Carver's arrest marks the second time that a leader at the 5,000-member Northwest Austin church has been accused of sexually assaulting a teen. In 1999, youth minister Charles Richard "Rick" Willits was sentenced to 15 years in prison after a jury found him guilty of sexually abusing a 14-year-old boy he met at church.
In Carver's case, police say they are looking for other possible victims. Sgt. Brian Loyd would not offer details but said detectives think Carver has picked up other minors at bus stops...
www.statesman.com/news/cont...ister.html
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