Bible college halts building name plan

Bible college halts building name plan

CLARKS SUMMIT, Pa. (AP) — A Baptist college in northeastern Pennsylvania is suspending a plan to name a new building after a former administrator amid concerns over his handling of a child sex abuse investigation.

Baptist Bible College and Seminary had planned to name a new athletics center for the late Wendell Kempton, a graduate and administrator who was the president of the Association of Baptists for World Evangelism in Harrisburg for 30 years.

But The Times-Tribune of Scranton reports the college put that plan on hold after learning the religious group was investigating the handling of sex abuse involving a missionary in Bangladesh in the 1980s.

ABWE said in a May update that organizational leaders made “unwise and unacceptable” decisions involving the missionary, including not alerting authorities.