I know, I know. Here we go again, right? Well before you call up your local church and warn your pastor that we are on here talking about him again, read the whole article. While this story may seem familiar, the actual people involved are from a church in Florida. Shiloh Metropolitan Baptist Church of Jacksonville to be exact.

However, we couldn’t help but notice that the situation seems very familiar.  Like:

  1. A Pastor acting as a counselor
  2. A teenage member brought to pastor for counseling
  3. explicit text messages
  4. Church leaders found that the Pastor acted irresponsibly through his interaction with these teenage girls

Wait A Minute!! You mean that the church leaders did not try to sweep this under the rug?? No cover up?
Hmmmmmm? i guess this story is not so familiar after all.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - There are new details about a pastor accused of having a sexual relationship with two teenage girls at Shiloh Metropolitan Baptist Church.

We got our hands on 800 pages of court documents detailing the alleged x-rated phone and text messages sent between Darrell Gilyard and a teenaged girl. We also have transcripts of interviews between the state attorney’s office and the deacons of the church.Transcripts of text messages coming from Gilyard’s phone obtained by subpoena from Virgin Mobile included even more explicit messages, like: “Are you easy? So any man can __ the ___ outta you.” “Marry my ____. I’m serious. Call me cell and tell me. Lie on me and let my fingers explore…”

It’s pages upon pages of phone and text records allegedly sent by Gilyard to two girls–14 and 16 years old. And we’re now getting a look at just how racy the language really was.

The 16-year old told police in a newly released report–she had closer contact with Gilyard–because she was being counseled by him.

In the phone and text messages most of the language is too explicit to show you but in one alleged text, the 16-year old told police: Gilyard texted her: 

“I’m in the mood.”

She says she asked –isn’t your wife home and he replied “Yeah, she is but i want younger ____.”

 

 

She says he would text several times a day for text sex.

In a journal, she wrote a letter to Gilyard that said:

“U said don’t get caught up in sin, physically emotionally or sexually and yet u physically touch me, emotionally like me & sexually want me.  I deserve to be treated like a woman.”

She also told police details about their relationship. She says she was being counseled for bad behavior at school, but their counseling sessions quickly turned sexual. And she says they often played something Pastor Gilyard called the faith game where he would talk about god with the lights out.

According to the report, he would have her fall back, and he would catch her. 
She said several times she could feel that he was aroused and during these games, he would massage her and ask her “what do you think of me?” while touching on her thighs.

She says, Gilyard told her and her 14-year old friend–in a three way conversation not to say anything that he would be put in jail, get divorced and lose the church.

The mother of the 14-year old found text messages from Gilyard on her daughters phone and called police.  Eventually the journal kept by the 16-year old was turned over to detectives.

Gilyard is said to be preaching and teaching at another church in Jacksonville.

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