The Richmond Outreach Center will hire an interim pastor to handle its Saturday services as it looks for two permanent pastors to replace its founder and former senior pastor Geronimo Aguilar and three others.
The South Richmond mega church's board of directors said this morning that it will conduct the search for a senior and executive pastor with the assistance of "experienced Christian consultants."
"This is a lengthy process and will likely take between six months to a year," the board said.
Aguilar, who is facing life in prison in Texas on charges that he sexually assaulted an 11-year old girl and her sister for more than a year in the late 1990s, left the church he founded earlier this month.
Aguilar's brother Matthew Aguilar, along with Andrew Delgado and Jason Helmlinger, quit at the same time. Helmlinger is a former Henrico County police officer who now faces charges in Richmond for threatening a former ROC pastor, an Aguilar critic.
