HAMMOND (IN)
NWTimes
July 31, 2012 5:45 pm • Bill Dolan bill.dolan@nwi.com, (219) 662-5328
HAMMOND | The First Baptist Church of Hammond has dismissed Jack Schaap as its pastor in the wake of a Lake County police investigation.
A press release the church issued Tuesday afternoon states Schaap committed “a sin that has caused him to forfeit his right to be our pastor.” A source close to the investigation said Schaap began an affair in April with a 16-year-old girl who was affiliated with the church’s Hyles-Anderson College in Crown Point, though she was not a student.
Eddie Wilson, a spokesman for the church, said its deacon board, a group of more than 100 men who represent the congregation, made the dismissal decision and are cooperating with police in the matter for a behavior that he termed “physically improper.”
Wilson declined to elaborate further because of the police investigation.
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