BLOUNT COUNTY, Tenn. — A former First Apostolic Church of Maryville employee was sentenced to six years in prison Wednesday as part of a plea deal, according to Blount County District Attorney ...

Denise Duran, holding a photo of herself as a bride in 1997, told Knox News that the leader of First Apostolic Church of Maryville, the Rev. Kenneth Carpenter, took no action when she told him her ...

Top leaders at First Apostolic Church in Maryville knew of at least two separate times former teacher Joseph “Kade” Abbott sent inappropriate messages to a 14-year-old girl who attended the ...

MARYVILLE, Tenn. – Two women who say they were sexually abused as girls told Knox News they told the senior pastor of First Apostolic Church in Maryville and his wife about the assaults, and ...

Abbott, along with First Apostolic Church of Maryville and the school it runs, have been sued by the girl’s family in Blount County Circuit Court on allegations he sexual assaulted the girl ...

According to the civil lawsuit filed months before Abbott’s arrest by the victim’s parents, he was employed by the First Apostolic Church of Maryville and worked at Apostolic Christian Academy ...

She wonders now whether the pastor of First Apostolic Church of Maryville knew about White's violent past and just decided not to tell her. Duran said she confided in the pastor and his wife over ...