Who is Stephen Standfast, Gloriavale’s next Overseeing Shepherd?: The Press
By Joanne Naish | The Press |
Gloriavale’s next top leader is a zealous follower who once pulled off a girl’s scarf and called her a whore for wearing one hairclip instead of two.
Stephen Standfast has been chosen as the next Overseeing Shepherd of the Gloriavale Christian Community by Howard Temple, who succeeded founder Hopeful Christian in the top job.
Former servant Zion Pilgrim said Standfast would become Overseeing Shepherd once Temple died, just as Temple became Overseeing Shepherd when Hopeful Christian died in 2018.
“He is very devout, very zealous and I feel he is caught in quite a difficult position between the old and the new,” Pilgrim said.
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