(CP) – The U.S. branch of the charismatic Hillsong Church, headquartered in Australia, said officials investigated and took action on a 2018 letter of complaint alleging inappropriate sexual relations between staff and volunteers at the Hillsong NYC location but not all the allegations made in the letter were accurate.
“In February of 2018, Hillsong Church received a letter with serious allegations regarding specific members of the Hillsong NYC volunteer and staff teams. We were very concerned to learn that any church member, volunteer or staff member would feel unsafe.
Immediately, we launched a comprehensive three-month inquiry into the claims made in the letter,” the church said in a statement to The Christian Post. “Sadly, we learned that some of the allegations were true. In response, our team took immediate action to address those allegations.
Though some of the letter’s allegations were found to be inaccurate, we realized that those situations required care and concern as well,” officials explained. The New York Post’s Page Six first referenced the letter in a report last Thursday which the publication was told was sent to seven of the top leaders in the U.S. branch of the church, including former lead pastor Carl Lentz, who was fired last month over “leadership issues” and moral failures, including being unfaithful to his wife. READ MORE
