#Darrel Daulton

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Christ the Redeemer has a lot of Chicago-land refugees on staff.

Okay. . . . Three.

Darrel Daulton and his son William are on paid staff. The pandemic brought them down to Greenville, they claim. William is a current BJU Sophmore in charge of the "Youth Ministry." Nepotism much?

But there's a new face: Matt Black.

Like the Daultons, Matt Black is from Chicago-land. Like the Darrel Daulton, his main job is peddling BJU. Like the Daultons, his side gig is pastoring at this SBC church.

Black has a long, accomplished résumé. He was a missionary to Spain. He started this publisher. His former Chicago-land church still has his blog posts published, so you can get a sense of his outlook.

He's a very typical Calvinistic Baptist. ::yawn::

But no matter -- why did Matt Black leave a pretty robust ministry up in Chicago to be a mere University Rep? Two of his kids already graduated, and only one is enrolled at BJU. So the tuition benefit can't be the biggest reason. He just arrived at BJU, so it's not the pandemic per se.

He's earning a Ph.D. in Biblical Counseling online with an SBC seminary. He could have done that in Chicago.

Is it this?

ROSELLE, Ill – A suburban church deacon is accused of sexually abusing a girl for close to a decade. 51-year-old Timothy Peltz was charged Thursday with four counts of predatory sexually assault. The abuse, according to the DuPage County state’s attorney, started when the girl was just 3-years-old and continued until she was 13 and could physically fight back. Peltz was a deacon at the Living Hope Bible Church according to the states attorney’s office but other than that he was unemployed. The the church is in Roselle. Peltz lives in Wheaton. Recently, the victim told her mother Peltz began to abuse her again. The states’ attorney’s office says Peltz admitted to the abuse and not only tried to blame the victim for showing him affection, but also threatened her at one point saying if she didn’t keep quiet someone was going to get in trouble. Peltz is being held DuPage County Jail on a million dollar bond. He is due back in court on Sept. 13th. If convicted he looking at 24 to 120 years. The DuPage County state’s attorney’s office tells WGN they don’t think the church played a role in the abuse so those with the church are likely just learning of these charges today as well.

Matt Black was pastor at this church while this deacon was committing his crimes. Did he know about more?

[wutbju]

Here's another odd happening in BJU-land.

BJU admissions counselor and brother to current Dean-of-Men is the current pastor of "Christ the Redeemer" on 118 Mason Street in Greenville. He seems to argue that being an admissions counselor [at BJU] is a feature not a bug.

It's a SBC church officially. This is hilariously new trend in BJU-Land. Lonnie Polson pastors White Oak Baptist (SBC). It wasn't that long ago that BJU was pretending to be completely aghast at any attempt at "fellowship" with the SBC. But we are in strange times.

This church is weirder for BJU-land.

The word "Baptist" does not appear anywhere in the church name, but they are so very Baptist (of course). They use the ancient Chi Rho symbol as their logo.

And they play liturgical with their "ordinary time" nomenclature.

There's one other odd thing.