Yesterday morning I was made aware of tweets by Jason Bendall. Jason is a former minister at Highpoint Church and current Highpoint Church member. According to his Facebook bio, he worked at Highpoint Church as the Recreation Director. He tweeted that he was on staff at the church for 10 years. After exposure yesterday, he deleted mention of Highpoint as his past employer, as well as his current employer, Old Dominion Freight Line.
I had never heard of Jason before yesterday when I discovered he had preemptively blocked me and many others who had been sharing Jules’ story of sexual assault by her then youth pastor in TX, Andy Savage.
Below are screenshots of tweets by Jason Bendall. After exposure of his threats yesterday, he deleted these tweets.
Jason also has multiple tweets saying Jules is a liar. He deleted his smash heads with a hammer and shovel tweets (multiples) but now excuses his violent threats as being provoked. By whom? Where are tweets by me or Dee or others going after anyone’s kids? pic.twitter.com/lO0t9sCHSg— Amy Smith (@watchkeep) February 26, 2018
He attended the men’s prayer breakfast 2 days ago @hpmemphis campus @hp_arlington. Do they teach men to threaten physical violence? Is that cool at Man Church? @chrisconlee @memphisnews @rmaxey1 pic.twitter.com/szqdP7D18t— Amy Smith (@watchkeep) February 26, 2018
Another Highpoint Church member has been defending Andy Savage’s sexual assault of Jules as a “mistake.” There also seems to be some confusion about Andy Savage’s position at Woodlands Parkway Baptist Church, now Stonebridge Church. Andy was a full time youth pastor, not a “college intern” as Paul Goode insists.
Sexual assault is not a mistake. It is a predatory act. It is a crime. https://t.co/sjHHzZ78jr— Amy Smith (@watchkeep) February 27, 2018
I just discovered this blog through the NYT and spent awhile reading through your archives. I just want to say: thank you for doing this.