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Greater Grace World Outreach — the GRACE Investigation (2025)

GRACE's independent investigation of the Baltimore megachurch: nine stipulated cases the church itself supplied, three further credible findings including against the church's founder, and a recommendation to remove four senior leaders — for leadership failure and resistance to accountability, a distinction this page states as plainly as the report does.

Subject
Greater Grace World Outreach (GGWO), Baltimore, Maryland
Issuing body
GRACE (Godly Response to Abuse in the Christian Environment) — independent investigators engaged by the church
Report
Independent Assessment and Investigation of Greater Grace World Outreach, Final Report & Recommendations — December 18, 2025
Method
67 interviews; content analysis of more than 4,000 pages of documents; a survey with 386 responses. GRACE applied its own standard — above preponderance of the evidence, below beyond a reasonable doubt — and states it is not a judicial body and had no subpoena power
Posture
Commissioned independent findings (Tier 2). Not a court record; convictions mentioned are stated as the report states them

The investigation

Greater Grace World Outreach, a Baltimore megachurch and missions movement, contacted GRACE in March 2024 and formally engaged it that September to investigate how the church had handled abuse across decades. GRACE interviewed 67 people, analyzed more than 4,000 pages of documents, and surveyed the community (386 responses). The church’s elders posted the final report publicly on December 18, 2025. Its overall conclusion is quoted here in the report’s own words:

"GGWO leaders have been involved, sometimes in the abuse itself and often in attempts to silence victims or smooth over situations — dynamics consistent with what many would reasonably term a coverup… Insomuch as pastors have the responsibility to protect their flock, GGWO as an institution has failed miserably."

The nine stipulated cases

The core of the report is a set of cases the church itself stipulated to GRACE — ten names supplied by GGWO in late 2024, of which nine are published here: one name GGWO later said it had no information on was reframed in October 2025, omitted from this section of the report, and its handling analyzed elsewhere in it. For each of the nine, the church’s own stipulation language is the floor: for four (John Jason, Henry Nkrumah, Jonathan Stambovsky, Skip Wood), that “the facts are clearly established and Greater Grace agrees that the allegations happened”; for others, that the church “has not disputed the allegations.” Two of the nine carry criminal outcomes, stated here exactly as the report states them:

For both men, GGWO’s own summary of its stipulated cases used the words “proven to be true in a court of law.” This page carries their convictions as the GRACE report states them; it does not restate them on an independent court pull, and no directory entry is built on this report alone.

Two cautions the report itself attaches, carried here so no name is overstated: John Jason is deceased; the report records three victims who were minors, in Ghana and the United States. And TJ Hassler: the report states expressly that “GRACE has not received any direct information indicating that Hassler has abused minors” — his stipulated conduct, as the report portrays it, concerns relationships with adults. He is not presented here, or anywhere in this archive, as a child-abuse finding.

The wider inquiry

GRACE shared 17 further names with the church; GGWO authorized investigation of seven and excluded ten, giving its rationale as “perceived relevance and feasibility.” Of the seven: two allegations were not substantiated — with the report’s own caution that this “does not necessarily indicate that the allegations were false”; two men were found to have committed “violations of professional standards for a youth pastor with indicators of potential grooming”; and three findings were made in full:

The leadership recommendation — read it for what it is

GRACE recommended removing four current leaders from authority: Thomas Schaller (Senior Pastor since 2005), Steven Scibelli (Director of Missions), John Love (Youth Pastor), and Pete Westera (Youth Ministry Director). This page states the basis exactly as the report states it, because the distinction is the finding:

"To be clear, this recommendation has less to do with allegations leveled against specific leaders and more to do with current leaders' response to allegations… a poor response to abuse and lack of care for victims also raises serious questions about a pastor's fitness for ministry, regardless of whether he perpetrated abuse himself."

The report grounds the recommendation in “deep-seated resistance to accountability, transparency, and change” — minimizing and dismissing victims, institutional self-protection, and unwillingness to abandon teachings such as “evil reports” and “touch not the Lord’s anointed” — and concludes that “lasting, meaningful change at an institutional level cannot be achieved under the current leadership.” (A separate part of the report discusses professional-boundary and potential-grooming concerns involving Love and Westera; that discussion is not an abuse finding against any of the four, and the report does not make it the basis of the removal recommendation.) None of these four men is carried in this archive as an abuser, and no directory entry exists or will be built for them on this report. They are named here for one reason: a commissioned investigation recommended their removal for how they led, and that is a fact of the institutional record.

The report’s further recommendations run to victim care and institutional responsibility, radical transparency, public dissociation from offenders, expert-led safeguarding reform, governance reform, and revised publications — the full set is in the report itself.

Not in this report: a separate criminal charge

One Greater Grace figure appears in 2025 criminal-justice coverage but not in the GRACE report, and the two records must not be merged. Per the Baltimore Banner (August 29, 2025), Eric Anderson, a former pastor of the organization, was arrested in Florida on a Massachusetts grand-jury indictment charging two counts of indecent assault and battery of a child, over alleged abuse in 1980 in western Massachusetts, when the organization was The Bible Speaks and he was its school principal. That is a charge — attributed to the coverage, contested extradition and all — with no conviction or adjudication. It is recorded here at exactly that posture and nowhere stronger.

In this archive

This page is the institutional record of the GRACE report. Consistent with this archive’s rules for commissioned findings, no directory entries arise from it: the men whose convictions the report states are carried above, attributed to the report and to the church’s own stipulation, and the four leaders named for leadership failure are named for that and nothing else.

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