Acts 29 Network Suspends President and Chairman of the Board, Matt Chandler, Following Revelations

Following the revelation that the elder board of The Village Church has temporarily suspended lead pastor Matt Chandler over engaging in an inappropriate, overly familiar conversation with a woman, Global church planting network Acts 29, of which Chandler is the President and Chairman of the Board, has likewise announced that they have placed him on leave.

In a message posted to their website, the Acts 29 network, which has around 800 congregations under its wings, wrote:

Acts 29 prioritizes personal integrity and holds our leaders to a high standard of conduct. Considering the findings of the TVC investigation and consistent with the leave of absence from preaching and teaching that the Village Church has placed Matt on, the Acts 29 Board has asked Matt to step aside from Acts 29 speaking engagements during this time. 

We hope that Matt can use this time away from speaking to focus on the process that TVC elders have laid out for him.

Chandler isn’t the first high-profile leader suspended or asked to step down from the network. Mark Driscoll, who founded Acts 29 in 1998, handed over the presidency to Chandler in 2012 after being involved in several controversies and was removed from the network in 2014. In 2016, Vice President Darrin Patrick was terminated after being disqualified by his church for ‘historical patterns of sin.’ Two years ago, Acts 29 CEO Steve Timmis was also removed after being accused of being a bully and having an abusive leadership style.


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