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  • Village Church rebuts sex abuse liability, $1M claim
    by Diana Chandler, posted Monday, August 26, 2019 (5 years ago)

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    FLOWER MOUND, Texas (BP) -- The Village Church is not liable for damages suffered by a woman who alleges sexual abuse at age 11 by a then Village youth pastor, the church asserts in its initial answer to the woman's lawsuit.

    The Flower Mound, Texas, church also challenges the plaintiff's claim of more than $1 million in damages, citing chapters 41 and 84 of the Texas Civil Practices and Remedies Code, as well as the Texas Charitable Immunity Act. Read More

  • Alleged sex abuse victim sues Village Church for $1M
    by Diana Chandler, posted Monday, July 29, 2019 (5 years ago)

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    FLOWER MOUND, Texas (BP) -- A Texas woman has sued The Village Church for more than $1 million, alleging she was sexually assaulted at age 11 in 2012 by Matthew Tonne, whom the church employed as a minister and counselor.

    Identified in the lawsuit as "Jane Doe One," the plaintiff accuses The Village Church of negligently breaching the church's duty to care for her, failing to "implement reasonable policies and procedures to detect and prevent the sexual abuse of Jane Doe One by Tonne," and failing "to adhere to the policies and procedures it had in place at the time" to prevent the alleged abuse. Read More

  • Former Baptist minister charged with child sex crime
    by Diana Chandler, posted Tuesday, January 29, 2019 (5 years ago)

    FLOWER MOUND, Texas (BP) -- A former children's minister at The Village Church has been charged with indecent contact with a child, allegedly in 2012 during his church ministry.

    Matthew David Tonne, the 35-year-old accused, was dismissed as associate children's minister from the Southern Baptist megachurch on an unrelated matter in June, senior pastor Matt Chandler said Jan. 24 in video and printed comments at thevillagechurch.net. The alleged crime occurred at the Mt Lebanon Retreat and Conference Center, a Baptist ministry in Cedar Hill, Texas.

    "We want to state clearly that there are no persons of interest in this investigation that have access to children at The Village Church," Chandler said. "We would not let anyone who is under investigation for a crime like this be near any of our children at TVC." Read More

  • ERLC, Village Church to co-host conf. in Dallas
    by Tom Strode, posted Monday, March 05, 2018 (6 years ago)

    NASHVILLE (BP) -- The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission and The Village Church will co-host a conference on the church's Gospel engagement with the world just prior to the Southern Baptist Convention's annual meeting this year in Dallas.

    The two-day event -- titled "The Gospel and the Future of the Church" -- will be held the weekend before the SBC's June 12-13 gathering in Dallas. The pre-conference, held in partnership with Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, will be June 8-9 at The Village Church's Flower Mound campus in metro Dallas. Read More

  • Multisite: TX church's decision spurs talk of trends
    by David Roach, posted Friday, October 06, 2017 (6 years ago)

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    FLOWER MOUND, Texas (BP) -- The decision of a Dallas megachurch to transition its six campuses into autonomous churches illustrates what some see as a trend in the multisite model.

    Still, those who study multisite ministry say it remains a viable missions and evangelism strategy for healthy churches.

    Matt Chandler, pastor of the Dallas-area Village Church in Flower Mound, Texas, announced Sept. 24 that the church's five remaining campuses will all become autonomous churches by 2022 to maximize the "capacity to contextually reach the city of Dallas with the Gospel of Jesus Christ." The 11,400-attendee Southern Baptist church previously transitioned one campus to an independent congregation in 2015, Christianity Today reported. Read More

  • Lauren Chandler thankful for God's overarching love
    by Mark Kelly, posted Wednesday, November 23, 2016 (7 years ago)

    NASHVILLE (BP) -- Lauren Chandler had good reason to thank God. "Most of my life was pretty charmed," she says. "I grew up in a home where my parents loved Jesus and each other, loved my brother and me. My life had a natural flow where things just kind of worked out for me."

    In 1999, Lauren married Matt Chandler, a passionate young preacher who would become lead pastor of one of the fastest-growing churches in America, The Village Church in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. The willowy, blue-eyed blonde would be a Dove-nominated singer-songwriter and an in-demand speaker at dating and marriage conferences. She and Matt had two beautiful children, and she was pregnant with their third. Read More

  • Public apologies spur church discipline warnings
    by David Roach, posted Monday, June 01, 2015 (9 years ago)

    NASHVILLE (BP) -- Public apologies by two U.S. megachurches for a lack of compassion in the exercise of church discipline have prompted some Baptist pastors to underscore the need for humility and congregational polity during the attempted restoration of wayward members.

    Most American churches have not exercised biblical church discipline for a century, Bart Barber, pastor of First Baptist Church in Farmersville, Texas, told Baptist Press. Read More