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'''Andy Clay Harris''' (born September 1, 1961)<ref name=mylife.com>{{cite web|url=https://www.mylife.com/andrew-harris/harris3768r|title=Andy Harris (Clay)|publisher=Mylife.com|accessdate=March 14, 2018}}</ref> is an [[Assemblies of God]] [[pastor]] from [[Bossier City]] in northwestern [[Louisiana]], whose former congregation, The Church of the Cross, erected in 2009 a 199-foot [[Christian]] cross on the grounds of its sanctuary in Haughton in Bossier Parish. The silver cross is seen from various points about U.S. Highway 80.

'''Andy Clay Harris''' (born September 1, 1961)<ref name=mylife.com>{{cite web|url=https://www.mylife.com/andrew-harris/harris3768r|title=Andy Harris (Clay)|publisher=Mylife.com|accessdate=March 14, 2018}}</ref> is an [[Assemblies of God]] [[pastor]] from [[Bossier City]] in northwestern [[Louisiana]], whose former congregation, The Church of the Cross, erected in 2009 a 199-foot [[Christian]] cross on the grounds of its sanctuary in Haughton in Bossier Parish. The silver cross is seen from various points about U.S. Highway 80.

The son of a Bossier City builder-father and teacher-mother, Harris graduated from Bossier High School in 1979. He studied at the Southwestern Assemblies of God University<ref name=intelius>{{cite web|url=https://www.intelius.com/people-search/Andy-C-Harris/Bossier%20city-LA|title=Andy Harris: Bossier City, LA|publisher=Intelius.com|accessdate=March 14, 2018}}</ref> in Waxahachie, [[Texas]], the alma mater of the famous pastor [[John C. Hagee]] of [[San Antonio]], Texas. For a time, he was on the staff of ''The Gurdon Times'' in Arkadelphia, [[Arkansas]]. He also lived for a time, dates unavailable but prior to 1996, in [[Carson City]], [[Nevada]]; Miami, [[Oklahoma]], and Sarepta in Webster Parish, Louisiana.<ref name=intelius/> Harris completed an internship at his home congregation, the Broadmoor Assembly of God in [[Shreveport]] and was ordained into the ministry in 1985.<ref name=arrest>{{cite web|url=https://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/crime/2018/03/09/benton-man-arrested-possession-meth/410682002/|title=Bossier Parish pastor arrested for possession of meth|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|author=Nick Wooten|date=March 9, 2018|accessdate=March 14, 2018}}</ref>

The son of a Bossier City builder-father and teacher-mother, Harris graduated from Bossier High School in 1979. He studied at the Southwestern Assemblies of God University<ref name=intelius>{{cite web|url=https://www.intelius.com/people-search/Andy-C-Harris/Bossier%20city-LA|title=Andy Harris: Bossier City, LA|publisher=Intelius.com|accessdate=March 14, 2018}}</ref> in Waxahachie, [[Texas]], the alma mater of the famous pastor [[John C. Hagee]] of [[San Antonio]], Texas. For a time, he was on the staff of ''The Gurdon Times'' in Arkadelphia, [[Arkansas]]. He also lived for a time, dates unavailable but prior to 1996, in [[Carson City]], [[Nevada]]; Miami, [[Oklahoma]], and Sarepta in Webster Parish, Louisiana.<ref name=intelius/> Harris completed an internship at his home congregation, the Broadmoor Assembly of God in [[Shreveport]] and was ordained into the ministry in 1985.<ref name=arrest>{{cite web|url=https://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/crime/2018/03/09/benton-man-arrested-possession-meth/410682002/|title=Bossier Parish pastor arrested for possession of meth|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|author=Nick Wooten|date=March 9, 2018|accessdate=March 14, 2018}}</ref>

On March 7, 2018, Harris was arrested for possession of [[methamphetamine]]s and drug paraphernalia and booked in the Bossier Maximum Security Facility, at which he posted a $5,000 bail. He accepted the pastorate of The Church of the Cross in 1996 and resigned after more than twenty-one years amid the arrest.<ref name=arrest/> He reportedly earned between $100,000 and $150,000.<ref name=mylife.com/> Police said that Harris was questioned on another unrelated, undisclosed matter when Harris revealed the drugs in  his home. Police found 3.5 grams of meth, a smoking device, and a snorting straw.<ref name=arrest/>  

On March 7, 2018, Harris was arrested for possession of [[methamphetamine]]s and drug paraphernalia and booked in the Bossier Maximum Security Facility, at which he posted a $5,000 bail. He accepted the pastorate of The Church of the Cross in 1996 and resigned after more than twenty-one years amid the arrest.<ref name=arrest/> He reportedly earned between $100,000 and $150,000.<ref name=mylife.com/> Police said that Harris was questioned on another unrelated, undisclosed matter when Harris revealed the drugs in  his home. Police found 3.5 grams of meth, a smoking device, and a snorting straw.<ref name=arrest/>  

Harris was confined to the Bossier Parish Jail in Plain Dealing on March 7, 2018, on a $5,000 bond. He was sent for "counseling and restoration" at Emerge Ministries in Akron, [[Ohio]], according to a post on his personal [[Facebook]] page. “I may be knocked down…but I am getting back up ... I have definitely not been knocked out,” Harris said.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://brucegerencser.net/2018/03/black-collar-crime-evangelical-pastor-andy-harris-arrested-for-methamphetamine-possession/|title=Black Collar Crime: Evangelical Pastor Andy Harris Arrested for Methamphetamine Possession|publisher=brucegerencser.net|date=March 12, 2018|author=Bruce Gerencser|accessdate=January 26, 2022}}</ref>

Harris was confined to the Bossier Parish Jail in Plain Dealing on March 7, 2018, on a $5,000 bond. He was sent for "counseling and restoration" at Emerge Ministries in Akron, [[Ohio]], according to a post on his personal [[Facebook]] page. “I may be knocked down…but I am getting back up ... I have definitely not been knocked out,” Harris said.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://brucegerencser.net/2018/03/black-collar-crime-evangelical-pastor-andy-harris-arrested-for-methamphetamine-possession/|title=Black Collar Crime: Evangelical Pastor Andy Harris Arrested for Methamphetamine Possession|publisher=brucegerencser.net|date=March 12, 2018|author=Bruce Gerencser|accessdate=January 26, 2022}}</ref>

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