Two months after Robert Morris resigned, Gateway Church campus pastor let go due to ‘moral issue’
After Gateway Church’s founder and an elder resigned from their positions earlier this summer, Southlake campus pastor Kemtal Glasgow was terminated from his position due to a “moral issue,” the church said Wednesday.
Glasgow was let go from the church Monday.
“We were informed last week of a moral issue which we believe as elders disqualify him from serving in the role he had at Gateway,” said church elder Tra Willbanks in the update.
“We love his family, we love his wife and his kids, and we want to come alongside them during this difficult time and help them find restoration and healing that they need as a family,” Willbanks said.
The church did not specify the “moral issue.” Kemtal’s removal from his position had “nothing to do with the departure of Robert Morris nor related to those circumstances,” said Gateway’s executive director of media, Lawrence Swicegood, in a statement sent to the Star-Telegram.
“Glasgow had a moral failure so we’ve asked him to step down as a pastor at Gateway and devote time to his marriage and family,” said Swicegood. “Although his employment is ending, we are devoted to still caring for Kemtal and his family.”
As of Wednesday, Gateway’s website no longer shows Glasgow on its Campus Leadership page.
Willbanks said Adana Wilson has been promoted to campus pastor, replacing Glasgow, overseeing the megachurch’s multiple locations.
“We’re excited for Adana and Adana is the perfect person to take on this responsibility and she is going to do terrific,” Willbanks said.
Glasgow’s termination comes after Robert Morris, the founder and lead pastor of Gateway, resigned from his position in June after admitting to molesting a girl, starting when she was 12, in the 1980s and 90s.
Founding elder Steve Dulin also parted ways with the church, deciding to go in “different direction,” he said in a statement.
This story was originally published August 21, 2024 at 6:35 PM.
