The Justice Department confirmed to FOX 4 that 41-year-old Luke Cunningham was arrested on June 19 near Lubbock.
Cunningham was the student minister at Lakeside Baptist Church in Granbury.
In a public statement sent to members of the church, Lakeside said that it learned Cunningham was accused of inappropriate conduct with a minor in another church on June 2.
Lakeside Baptist said they immediately suspended Cunningham and conducted an investigation.
The church said within days they found enough evidence to fire Cunningham and reported what was discovered to law enforcement.
Before coming to Granbury, Cunningham served as a student pastor at Turning Point Church in Lubbock from 2010 to 2016.
"We believe that, if the Southern Baptist Convention had a working database for offenders, we would likely have never been exposed to Mr. Cunningham. We plan to do everything possible to encourage national leaders to exercise their spiritual responsibility, identify perpetrators in the churches, and stop this from happening again," said the church in a statement.
