Former Church Youth Director Held in Sex Case
A man who was arrested last weekend on sex charges involving two girls was a youth director at a Kernersville church.
Timothy Paul Rowell was charged with a sexual offense in which the defendant is six or more years older than the victim, and with indecent liberties with a child.
Main Street Baptist Church pastor Michael Willard said Rowell worked as his church's youth director for a year and a half. He told WXII 12's Damany Lewis that he performed background checks on Rowell and that they came back OK.
Willard said he fired Rowell and began counseling him after learning of the allegations.
Rowell was placed under a $125,000 bond at the Forsyth County Jail.
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Timothy Paul Rowell was charged with a sexual offense in which the defendant is six or more years older than the victim, and with indecent liberties with a child.
Main Street Baptist Church pastor Michael Willard said Rowell worked as his church's youth director for a year and a half. He told WXII 12's Damany Lewis that he performed background checks on Rowell and that they came back OK.
Willard said he fired Rowell and began counseling him after learning of the allegations.
Rowell was placed under a $125,000 bond at the Forsyth County Jail.
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Looking at porn is one thing, but crossing the line and violating those two kids who trusted their youth leader is another.
see you in 10
learn from our mistakes and grow stronger as a result. Hopefully that will happen in time once the sentence is completed.
However, I do know Tim personally. He has a good heart, was raised in a great home and is very gifted musically and in leading youth to Christ, but he allowed an inner addiction and the sin of lust to overtake him. Are we to overlook his sin? Certainly not!! He will unfortunately learn a long difficult lesson about breaking trust, going too far, and not maintaining self-control. It hurts to know my friend allowed this to
happen and that the price includes imprisonment, damaging of a church reputation and Christianity as a whole, and the violation of two young girls who consented in the behavior but were too young to be put in that situation, especially by a Youth Minister that was trusted to protect and lead them in the right way. There are no clearer words than to say what the Bible tells us ... "the wages of sin is death."
But, I still care about my friend and hurt for him as he must face the consequences of his sin and live a dreadful life for the next 7 - 10 years when he had such great potential. I have worked side-by-side with him in preparation for youth events, gone with him on youth trips as a chaperone, worked long hours with him on worship songs, and met some of today's top Christian artists and heard Tim play music with them,.... this is not the ending expected. To know how much potential he had and to know that it was wasted in such a terrible way is heart-breaking.
Our prayers go out to Tim and especially for the girls, their parents, and the church where this happened.
Everyone likes to say there is a purpose for everything, I hope God can somehow turn bad into good as He and only He often does.
You mean like DROWNING everybody because his creation turned out to be inadequate. You mean like KILLING all the inhabitants of Sodom, even the innocent babies and children.
So, your god turns bad into good by killing off masses of people. Please take your head out of your ass.
Cheers
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