The Times of Northwest Indiana reports:
The First Baptist Church of Hammond has dismissed Jack Schaap as its pastor in the wake of a Lake County police investigation.
A press release the church issued Tuesday afternoon states Schaap committed “a sin that has caused him to forfeit his right to be our pastor.” A source close to the investigation said Schaap began an affair in April with a 16-year-old girl who was affiliated with the church’s Hyles-Anderson College in Crown Point, though she was not a student.