A Fort Mill church announced Sunday it “released” its pastor after reviewing court documents from a 1997 sex offense conviction, according to a livestream on the church’s Youtube page. The former pastor, 57-year-old Donald Ray Logan, is registered as a sex offender in South Carolina because of a conviction in Indiana for felony sexual misconduct with a minor, according to the registry’s website. He had worked for in Fort Mill for about a decade, according to the church’s website and a .

It is unclear why the church took action in the past week — almost a decade after Logan was hired. In the church’s livestream of its 9 a.m.

service from Sunday, one of the , John Zimmer, confirmed Logan was no longer pastor. The church website states Eternal Church, located on O’Henry Lane, is led by elected elders and functions as an independent, reformed church. “The elders released Don Logan from his call as our pastor,” Zimmer said in the service video.

The Herald went to Logan’s home Tuesday to ask about his dismissal. He answered the door, but declined to comment. Zimmer did not say when the church made its dismissal decision.

But the Sunday service video showed him talking about why there was a change related to “Don’s role as our pastor” since the previous Sunday’s services. The answer: church leaders reviewed court records from Logan’s 1997 conviction. “The session, the elders, fully reviewed and had the chance to digest and discuss, the possible impl.