TENNESSEE PASTOR WHO RECEIVED OVATION AFTER ADMITTING ‘SEXUAL INCIDENT’ WITH TEEN RESIGNS

MEMPHIS (TN)
Newsweek

March 21, 2018

By Tom Porter

Andy Savage, a Tennessee megachurch pastor who admitted to a “sexual incident” with a teenager 20 years ago, resigned from his position Tuesday.

He had been on a leave of absence from the Highpoint Church in Memphis since January, after a woman came forward and alleged that she had been assaulted by him when she was a 17-year-old high school student and he was a 22-year-old youth minister.

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