North Huntingdon church shaken by youth pastor’s child porn rap

PENNSYLVANIA
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

By Renatta Signorini
Sunday, Oct. 19, 2014

In a voicemail early Thursday, Andrew Mark Patterson of Monroeville expressed remorse to the pastors of the North Huntingdon church where he recently developed a youth group.

Patterson, 45, told Pastors Roy and Sylvia Tryon in the message that there were federal agents at his home and that he wanted to resign his position as a volunteer with youth at Living Waters Family Worship Center.

The husband-and-wife pastor team at the nondenominational church were blindsided later in the day when they learned that Patterson had been arrested in connection with a three-month child pornography investigation.

“We were developing a relationship with Andrew,” Sylvia Tryon said Sunday. “I still can’t wrap my mind around it.”

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