He added," My client deserves his day in court and for the truth to be heard, and so we're going to do that through the court process. We're in the middle of litigation, so I can't really comment further at this point, but that's what it boils down to." "At the end of the day, a woman has the right to choose who she wants to be with. Yawn's attorney responded to the lawsuit in a statement to the Chicago Tribune. Zobrist is seeking $6 million in damages. His book Well-Driven Nails received much positive.
He took a leave of absence from the Cubs from May until September and lost roughly $8 million during that time. Byron Yawn is the senior pastor of Community Bible Church in Nashville, Tennessee and a much-sought speaker. Zobrist and his wife filed for divorce in 2019. "When the defendant began meeting the plaintiff's wife for sex during the spring of 2019, he was still the executive director of Patriot Forward." "By December of 2018, the defendant drafted his own job description as executive director, involving himself in every facet of the plaintiff's charity," the lawsuit says. Yawn was fired from his role in March 2019 but continued to cash checks through May. Yawn earned $36,000 serving as the executive director and used his role as an excuse to meet with Zobrist's wife. Zobrist also accused Yawn of defrauding his charity, Patriot Forward.
In one instance, Yawn told Zobrist to "give his wife some space." In a September 2018 Instagram post, Ben, celebrating the release of Julianna’s book, wrote a long caption expressing his love for her. Fans of Ben, in the aftermath of these revelations, have pounced on Julianna. During the affair, Yawn even counseled Zobrist and his wife about marital issues they were having. Yawn is a former pastor and an elder at Community Bible Church in Nashville. Yawn served as their pre-marital counselor, and Zobrist went to him for advice and counseling, including during his bout with depression in 2016. Zobrist and his wife met Yawn in 2005 and developed a close relationship over the years. "The defendant secretly maintained a sexually intimate relationship with the plaintiff's wife for the remainder of 2019 and into the spring of 2020, all the while concealing it from the plaintiff, his counseled," the lawsuit states.
Zobrist alleges that Byron Yawn, who was the senior pastor at Community Bible Church in Nashville, began having sex with his wife in 2019. He is the author of What Every Man Wishes His Father Had Told Him, and the forthcoming Suburbianity: Can We Find Our Way Back to Biblical Christianity (Harvest House) You can follow him on Twitterbyronyawn.
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He was fired shortly after the budget was proposed but stands accused of fraudulently receiving salary checks from March to May 2019.īen Zobrist is seeking $6 million (£4.3 million) in damages in the complaint, NBC News reported.Ĭhristopher Bellamy, Yawn's attorney, told the network: "At the end of the day, any woman, including the woman involved here, has the right to choose who she wants to be with."īellamy also confirmed that the pastor no longer belonged to the Community Bible Church.Former Chicago Cubs star and 2016 World Series MVP Ben Zobrist filed a lawsuit claiming that the pastor of his church had an extramarital affair with his wife and defrauded his charity. Byron Yawn is the senior pastor of Community Bible Church in Nashville, Tennesse. Yawn also allegedly became involved in Zobrist’s charity, Patriot Forward, "as an excuse to meet with the Plaintiff's wife" toward the end of 2018." Mr Yawn also became an Executive Director at the charity and proposed a budget with a $36,000 (£25,774) annual salary for himself, according to the complaint.
The civil complaint details: "The defendant secretly maintained a sexually intimate relationship with the plaintiff's wife for the remainder of 2019 and into the spring of 2020, all the while concealing it from the plaintiff, his counselee." He also accuses Yawn of defrauding Zobrist's charity, Patriot Forward. In a civil complaint filed in Tennessee, Mr Zobrist accused the senior pastor at Community Bible Church in Nashville, Byron Yawn, of taking advantage of his wife, Julianna Zobrist. Former Chicago Cubs star, Ben Zobrist, has accused a pastor of carrying out an extramarital affair with his wife while he was counselling the pair.
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