I've known the new Pastor here for years. He was the pastor of Calvary Baptist church in Windsor CT for 12 years. I was a member for 9 of those years. There is a long story about his time in CT. Him and his previous wife were very strict. The Windsor church grew to about 300 people and a building project started because he claimed we needed more Sunday school rooms. The deacon committee approved the building. What most didn't know was the enormous addition to the building consisted of a 3 story fellowship hall, 3 class rooms and a large pastor's office and library. After this was built and we could see it, many of the congregation questioned why it was so elaborate with little functionality with only 3-4 usable rooms. During this time large donations were sent to the church. The Pastor took these donations so that his wife could get breast implants. These new implants and the way she bleached her hair and dressed made her look like a playboy model. Her clothes were so tight we could see the color of her underwear through her clothes. This was unacceptable to many people in the church and they started leaving. I personally questioned the Pastor why some of the very active members (including one Deacon) suddenly left. He told me many times that the families contacted him and they told him they didn't agree with certain doctrines and had to leave. This was always followed up with Pastor removing the member during a membership meeting and reminding everyone what 1 Cor 10:27 says about talking with a non-Believer who leaves the church. I spoke with a few of the members who left and they said they made it clear that they left because of the Pastor wife's inappropriate dress and not because of differences in beliefs. Along with publicly removing members he would also require members who came to him for counselling to publicly apologize for the sin that they revealed to him. During this time I personally asked the pastor why his wife received Breast implants since they were extremely noticeable. He said it was reconstructive surgery from having too many children. He also said that everyone wants her to dress differently because they were jealous of how she looked. While all this was happening the church of 300 slowly shrank down to around 60 because of the controversy involving the pastors wife. The church could no longer support a full time pastor so he took a part time job. This led to more deception. He took out a $10K loan and left it out of the financial statements presented in the membership meetings. He eventually said he "Didn't know where to put it on the balance sheet". The pastor said that having a part time job and being a pastor was taking a toll on himself and he had to leave the ministry to support his family. The church had a sending away offering for him giving him several $10k's. Unknown to the congregation he was planning to file for divorce a few weeks after he left the church. Very odd the pastor flipped his stance on divorce as soon as he wanted one. When the pastor left the Windsor CT church, The church secretary also left (his current wife). They immediately started dating. Now it looks like they wanted to get away from it all and move cross country to an unsuspecting church.