Youth pastor, Ryan McElrath, has pled guilty to multiple charges of child sexual abuse. He was the youth pastor at Fellowship Bible church in Tennessee.

“In addition to being indicted in Madison County on December 2, 2024, for three (3) counts of Statutory Rape by an Authority Figure and two (2) counts of Sexual Battery by an Authority Figure, McElrath also faced charges in other jurisdictions as a result of his criminal conduct. He was indicted on the same day in Gibson County for two (2) counts of Statutory Rape by an Authority Figure and two (2) counts of Sexual Battery by an Authority Figure. In Henderson County, McElrath was indicted on one (1) count of Statutory Rape by an Authority Figure and two (2) counts of Sexual Battery by an Authority Figure on December 3, 2024. “

https://www.wbbjtv.com/2025/10/01/madison-county-youth-pastor-sentenced-to-24-years

Fellowship Bible Church

Although the church has scrubbed all mentions of McElrath from their website, without even a PR statement regarding his arrest, archive.org has snapshot their site from prior years showing the self-admitted child molester as the youth pastor of the church (https://web.archive.org/web/20230322092433/https://fellowshipjackson.com/our-staff):

As the other staff are referenced as Baptist, this church will be flagged as a Baptist denomination.