When FBC conducted their internal investigation along with CLA, Jack Mitchell turned in text messages addressed to the secretary that asked why are you ignoring policies that have been in place for 10+ years. Schaaps personal staff uncovered the problem and notified Mrs. Schaap. (who was having problems at home with him, She has said that the last two years he would get extremely angry with her and would only get worse when she told him to get help) Jack Mitchell told her that in his opinion the problem was only a 1 on a scale of ten. This obviously turned out to not be the case.
And just for fun, since we are on the topic and it is a snow day, this is my understanding of what happened from a person very close to the situation: Anybody have anything to add:
Running parallel with this, Wolf had discovered the pics but was keeping them to himself. He was scared and said he prayed that God would deal with it.
When Moore, Binney, and Lapina went to confront Schaap, (with what they had from his staff and Mrs. Schaap) all they had was a picture of the girl kissing him on the cheek sitting on a gator. They demanded he take a sabbatical, he cussed them out. On the way home, Lapina and Duff differed on what to do. Duff felt that Schaap had in his dealings with them lost the ability to be their pastor. They went with a sabatical until that Monday when the other pictures came out, making it obvious that he could not be their pastor. They fired him that Monday night. Rick Sparks and Clyde Wolf went to the sheriff that Tuesday morning. During all this Schaap was pulling the strings on Marshall and Swanson telling them Lapina was trying to take over the church and oust him...they believed him for a short while.
