Lawsuit: Greg Laurie’s church covered up sexual misconduct of top pastors, paying one $4 million to sign NDA
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Senior pastor Greg Laurie didn’t say why two top leaders at his Riverside, California, church left suddenly in the early 2020s. No one acknowledged pastors Jeff Lasseigne and Brad Ormonde’s absences to the 15,000 people at Harvest Christian Fellowship’s three Sunday services, even though the pair had overseen the church’s in-person pastoral ministry.
Instead, online bios, teaching videos and Facebook photos quietly disappeared. Some church staffers furtively tried to piece together facts. But when they asked questions, church leaders reportedly scolded them for gossiping and sternly warned volunteers not to talk about it.
But the hushed-up stories tumbled into public view last Friday in a 201-page federal court filing in an ongoing lawsuit against Laurie and Harvest. The March 6 filing consolidated the 23 lawsuits filed by survivors of alleged childhood sexual abuse by another former Harvest pastor, Paul Havsgaard. As reported previously by The Roys Report (TRR), the men and women who grew up in church-funded homes in Romania accuse Laurie and Harvest of covering up years of horrific sexual abuse.
McAllister Olivarius, the law firm suing Harvest and Laurie, claims Lasseigne and Ormonde both engaged in sexual misconduct with women who worked on staff.
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