Bible Baptist Church of Shickshinny

An Independent Baptist church in Shickshinny, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, where Randy Lee Boston served as pastor after leaving West Chester Christian School, and where he was living when arrested in 2021. A distinct institution from Bible Baptist Church of West Chester.

Institution

Bible Baptist Church of Shickshinny

Address

43 Furnace Street, Shickshinny, PA 18655

Type

Independent Baptist church

Connection to record

Boston served as pastor here after WCCS; living here at his 2021 arrest

Linked case

Case No. 1 — Randy Lee Boston (CP-15-CR-0002739-2021)

A distinct institution — read this first

Bible Baptist Church of Shickshinny is not Bible Baptist Church of West Chester, and it is not affiliated in this record with West Chester Christian School. The two churches share a common denominational name. They are separate institutions in separate counties, and this archive documents them separately, always.

What the record shows

Tier 1 · Court-proven

After his 1979–2008 tenure at West Chester Christian School, Randy Lee Boston became pastor of this church in Shickshinny, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. He was living in Shickshinny when West Goshen Township detectives arrested him there on July 7, 2021, on charges arising from his years at the West Chester school. He was convicted at trial in Chester County and sentenced to 20 to 40 years; see Case No. 1.

The public record reviewed to date contains no charge and no finding concerning this church, its leadership, or its congregation, and no allegation in the sources reviewed that abuse occurred here. Boston’s pastorate here is documented because it is part of his timeline — where a convicted abuser served after the school, and what the receiving institution was or was not told, are exactly the questions The Pattern exists to track.

Open questions

Tier 3 · Open questions

• What references or background information, if any, did this church receive from West Chester when Boston became its pastor?
• What did this church know about Boston’s history, and when did it know it?

These questions are open because the documents that would answer them are internal church records. They are asked here, on the record, and the request below is how this archive asks them.

Records requested from this institution