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Andy Savage — Highpoint Church, Memphis (admitted; never charged)

A youth pastor in 1998, later a teaching pastor in Memphis. The survivor's account was reported in 2018; prosecutors took no case because the statute of limitations had passed. Savage acknowledged a 'sexual incident,' and resigned. Never charged — labeled precisely.

Evangelical / Non-denominational Allegation only — never charged

Person
Andy Savage
Role
Youth pastor (1998); later teaching pastor
Institution
Woodlands Parkway Baptist Church, Texas; Highpoint Church, Memphis, Tennessee
Location
Texas; Memphis, Tennessee
Status
Never charged — statute of limitations had passed; admitted a "sexual incident"; resigned March 2018
Note
An admitted incident, not a charge or conviction

Case in brief

Tier 2 · Attributed allegations

There is no charge and no conviction in this case, and this file does not create one. What is documented: a named survivor's account, the accused's own public acknowledgment of a "sexual incident" with a minor in his charge, two churches' responses, and a prosecutor's decision not to proceed because the statute of limitations had passed. The file is included because that combination — admission without prosecution — is itself a documented feature of the pattern.

In January 2018, Jules Woodson reported that in 1998, when she was 17 and Andy Savage, then 22, was her youth pastor at Woodlands Parkway Baptist Church in Texas, he coerced her into oral sex while driving her home and told her to take it “to the grave.” She said she told the Texas church’s leadership at the time. No charges were filed; the church held a going-away party for Savage. When she reported to the Montgomery County Sheriff in 2018, prosecutors did not pursue the case because the statute of limitations had passed.

Savage was by then a teaching pastor at Highpoint Church in Memphis. Highpoint’s senior pastor, Chris Conlee, knew of the incident when Savage was hired and defended him publicly in 2018. Savage confessed a “sexual incident” to the congregation — receiving a standing ovation — and resigned in March 2018, acknowledging abuse of power and the failure of due process in 1998.

The institutions

Woodlands Parkway Baptist Church (1998 handling: report made, no charges, a going-away party) and Highpoint Church, Memphis (hiring with knowledge; public defense; resignation). Both sequences are documented in named reporting.

The record

Tier 2 · Attributed allegations

No criminal record exists. The documented record is: the survivor’s 2018 account of a 1998 incident; the sheriff’s-office report and the limitations decision; Savage’s congregational confession and resignation; and Conlee’s knowledge at hiring and public defense, per MinistryWatch / Religion News Service reporting.

Open questions

Tier 3 · Open questions

Records requested & responses

This archive has not filed records requests in this case. The file rests on the published sources below and will be updated if court or institutional records are obtained, or if that changes.

Sources

Filed October 18, 2026, from the published sources below. Minor victims are never named or identified in this file.

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