FLORIDA
Daily Mail (UK)
By ALEX GREIG
6 April 2014
The pastor of a Florida megachurch with a congregation in excess of 20,000 has resigned over a ‘moral failing.’
Church elders announced to an estimated 7,500 parishioners attending a special Sunday meeting of the Calvary Chapel Fort Lauderdale that Pastor Bob Coy, 58, had resigned.
In a statement released Sunday, church elders said Coy, of Coral Springs, resigned Thursday as senior pastor of the 20,000-member Calvary Church ‘after confessing to a moral failing in his life which disqualifies him from continuing his leadership role.’
Coy’s Active Word ministry on radio, television and digital media has also been suspended, the church said.
‘Most people were shocked,’ congregant Robert Milne told the Sun-Sentinel. ‘A lot of people were hurt, a lot of people are disappointed.’
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