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Ex-Pastor -- 'Wolf in Sheep's Clothing' -- Gets 17 Years for Sexually Exploiting Girls Online - Deadline Detroit
14 from Leo United Methodist Church deliver gifts bound for Honduras - KPCnews.com
Free clothes to be given away on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day in West Chester - Daily Local News

Ex-Pastor -- 'Wolf in Sheep's Clothing' -- Gets 17 Years for Sexually Exploiting Girls Online - Deadline Detroit

Posted: 16 Jan 2020 07:38 AM PST

A former Port Huron pastor and counselor, who is married and has three children, was sentenced Wednesday to 17 years in prison for sexually exploiting preteen and teenage girls by posing as a 15-year-old boy in a chatroom.

Jackie Douglas Woodburn

"By the nature of his position, Mr. Woodburn was entrusted with protecting the mental and spiritual health of his community," said Steven D'Antuono, head of the Detroit FBI. "But he was a wolf in sheep's clothing -- looking to prey on the most vulnerable members of our society."

Jackie Douglas Woodburn, 64, who was the director of the Colonial Woods Christian Counseling Center in Port Huron, where he worked 28 years, used an unmonitored online chatroom to target and manipulate girls.

Woodburn pretended to be a teenage boy while chatting with the girls and eventually began communicating with them via email and social media. He then manipulated, pressured and coerced the girls into undressing and engaging in sexual acts on camera.

Specifically, a federal indictment alleges that Woodburn sexually exploited a 12-year-old girl from Texas, a 13-year-old girl from Kansas, and attempted to entice a 9-year-old girl from Virginia.

Additionally, the FBI alleges that he targeted and exploited several additional victims not identified in the indictment.

Woodburn has a master's degree in community counseling.

"It's completely reprehensible for any person — let alone a pastor and counselor — to abuse young children in this way," Detroit U.S. Attorney Matthew Schneider said in a statement. "We hope this sentencing will bring some closure to the innocent victims and their families who were so badly harmed by the defendant."

14 from Leo United Methodist Church deliver gifts bound for Honduras - KPCnews.com

Posted: 15 Jan 2020 09:00 PM PST

A team of 14 volunteers from Leo United Methodist Church spent three days volunteering at the Midwest Missions Distribution Center in Pawnee, Illinois. The trip to the facility near Springfield capped a year of effort and giving by the church.

The school bags, diapers, children's clothes and more were then shipped to Honduras.

"We drove to Illinois and we took a lot of useful items to the distribution center," said Virginia Ruby, who directed the group and was one of the 14 delegates. "The distribution center sends clothing and food and pianos and church pews and everything you can think of to places in the United States that need them or in the case of the day we were there the were sending a shipment to Honduras.

"They may get things that they don't need but another distribution center might need."

Ruby said many of the 14 who made the trip are retired teachers. She taught at Indiana Tech for 25 years. Her husband, Jake, taught in the East Allen County Schools. "Some taught internationally," she said. The group also included several veterans.

Ruby said the Leo volunteers worked three 8-hour days. "They had a lot of local people who worked a half-day one day a week or a couple days a week."

The mission trip was months in the making. "In order to prepare for this we spent almost a year sewing because these people need a lot of things," Ruby said. "We took 610 diapers. That might sound strange but you have to remember that a place like Honduras doesn't have Pampers. So we made 610 diapers out of flannel material and we put diaper pins with them and sent them off to the people who need them.

"We also sent 40 blankets — I would call it more of a quilt. We sent 116 receiving blankets, 40 sets of girls' clothes — a top and a pair of shorts to go with them — and we also sent boys' tops and boys' shorts and we crocheted 35 baby sweaters."

Ruby said the church also made and donated 88 school bags. "We actually made a canvas bag and then we put in three spiral notebooks, a ruler, a pencil sharpener, a box of pencils, a box of colored pencils and a box of crayons," Ruby said. "And while that doesn't sound like much here if you go to a place like Honduras that's a great help to the students who have nothing."

A church member also cross-stitched Bible verses onto plastic and donated 300 verses.

Most of the material was purchased by the people who sewed or purchased by members of the church.

Ruby said it was no problem recruiting 14 people for the trip. "We had 16 but we had an illness so two had to drop out," she said. "I think for people whose average age was probably 70 we did a good job out there. We worked hard and we had good fellowship and devotions in the evening and it was a good trip."

"And we're going the same week next year. We've already signed up for it," Ruby said.

Free clothes to be given away on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day in West Chester - Daily Local News

Posted: 16 Jan 2020 11:58 AM PST

WEST CHESTER—Free clothes will be given away on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Jan. 20 at St. Paul's Baptist Church.

The Clothes Closet of St. Paul's Baptist has numerous new and gently worn men's and women's suits, jeans and clothing for infants, toddlers, boys and girls. There is also a variety of belts, shoes and boots. In addition, shoes, handbags, coats, hats and scarves will be given away to those who need them.

The church is located at One Haggerty Boulevard, West Chester. It is located on the second floor. For more information, call 610-692-2446.