Park Street Church minister resigns after arrest on peeping-Tom charge

A minister at the Park Street Church resigned last week, two days after Brookline Police arrested him for allegedly "peering" into a neighbor's bedroom window after the neighbor's girlfriend had gotten out of the shower.

In a letter to church members, Senior Minister Gordon Hugenberger wrote:

On Tuesday, June 25, Park Street Church received a letter of resignation from John Chung, former Minister of Missions, based on serious personal problems he is facing. His resignation was accepted immediately. Park Street Church believes in a God of love who sent Jesus Christ into the world to provide a way of salvation. This gives us the courage to acknowledge, without excuses, the gravity of our failures and sins. It assures us of God's readiness to forgive those offenses, if we will humbly confess them, and it gives us the desire and strength to turn from them and seek to make things right. John's resignation was a welcome first step in this direction. We pray for God's comfort and healing, not only for John and his family, but also for all who have been disappointed and deeply hurt by this tragic circumstance.

Wicked Local Brookline reports Chung faces charges of disorderly conduct and trespassing for the incident, in which the neighbor spotted Chung at the window, yelled at him that he was "sick" and called police.

Innocent, etc.