“We created a Team Code of Conduct, which now serves as the standard of ethics for every volunteer who serves at any Hillsong East Coast locations. Since the 2018 letter, Hillsong officials said they now have a Team Code of Conduct covering volunteers at any Hillsong East Coast locations. The group further claimed that there are only “vague or absent sexual harassment/sexual assault” policies at the church, and the organization fosters a “culture of silence and fear.”
It was alleged that another church member even caught the same employee “having sex” with a church leader.Īnother male staffer was also accused of “not respecting physical and sexual boundaries within dating relationships with female church volunteers,” including having “sex with a 19-20-year-old female team member.” It was alleged in the report that one person employed by the church was asked to step down after it was revealed that, as the letter put it, he had “multiple inappropriate sexual relationships with several female leaders and volunteers and was verbally, emotionally, and according to one woman, physically abusive in his relationships with these women. Volunteers, according to the Page Six report, complained that “Hillsong staffers used the church like a seedy dating service, ‘sleeping around’ with volunteers and asking them to send nude pictures.” 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. 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. 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. In response, our team took immediate action to address those allegations. “Sadly, we learned that some of the allegations were true. 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.
We were very concerned to learn that any church member, volunteer or staff member would feel unsafe. “In February of 2018, Hillsong Church received a letter with serious allegations regarding specific members of the Hillsong NYC volunteer and staff teams. 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. Lead pastor of Hillsong Church, New York City, Carl Lentz worships at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
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