SOUTH CAROLINA
Christian Post
BY ANUGRAH KUMAR , CHRISTIAN POST CONTRIBUTOR
July 11, 2016
Clayton King, the leader of Crossroads Worldwide ministry, has been appointed the interim senior pastor of South Carolina’s NewSpring Church after the megachurch’s founding and senior pastor, Perry Noble, was fired for alcohol abuse and other “unfortunate choices and decisions.”
“Perry Noble is no longer the Senior Pastor at NewSpring Church… As for what is next for us, Clayton King is going to step in as Interim Senior Pastor,” the church, with a weekly attendance of 30,000, says on its website.
King “has been a friend to NewSpring since the very beginning of our church,” it adds.
“Clayton will do a good job,” Greenville Online quoted South Carolina Rep. Anne Thayer of Belton, a longtime NewSpring member, as saying. “The church officials gave me confidence today in the way they handled a very difficult situation. I thought it was good that they addressed it from the start. And I think it helped that Clayton will fill that interim role.”
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