According to local media reports, Roach was the youth pastor before becoming the lead pastor at Holliday First Baptist Church. The affidavit says the alleged relationship with a 15-year-old began in 2022 and continued into last year. Multiple attempts by Baptist Press to reach someone at the church have gone unanswered.
https://www.baptistpress.com/resource-library/news/north-texas-pastor-arrested-over-alleged-relationship-with-minor
Pastor Roach, from the screen grab below, started as a youth pastor at Holiday First Baptist, only to become a full time pastor.
On their YouTube channel, he has a video explaining the vision he had for the church:
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For more on this story: https://www.kswo.com/2025/06/01/former-pastor-arrested-child-grooming-charges
Commentary
God has evidently given him a vision, which Pastor Roach is going to reveal to the listeners in his video linked above. In the video pastor Roach claims that God revealed to him a special message. Listeners are instructed to:
- Make disciples
- Community goes into places to make disciples (outnumber the targets for discipleship)
- Prayer and Fasting:
- To bring the lost home, and the dead to life, we must pray and fast
- A way to hear from God
Grand sentiment but now this person is arrested and charged for grooming a child for sex. He has yet to plead, or appear in court, but this is a reoccurring problem and we can infer from this case about all the other pastors who plead guilty.
Pastors who are pleading guilty to sexual crimes (which this pastor hasn’t plead or been found guilty as of this writing) like to think they are above the world, and have their ear to the mouth of God. They like to think they are empowered to reveal things, to teach things. In the end, these sad individuals are themselves lost and deluded. I feel bad for them. They simply lack the mechanism to change or be better and yet consider themselves capable.
In the short time collecting these stories, the overwhelming source of Christian pastoral sexual abuse is coming from the Baptist church. Geographically the majority of problems are in Texas. Ironically our political system keeps pointing to outsiders as a source of sexual abuse, but the real culprits seem to be in the Christian churches of America.
