A Short Bio of Kelly Crotts & Cornerstone Church

Cornerstone Church (of Christ?)

A contributor has sent us this bio of accused sexual predator Kelly Crotts, aka Kelly Evit:

The congregation that met on county road 158 was once known as Macedonia Church of Christ. But then in May 2001 a large group left the building on county road 158 and moved into the building on Highway 20. It became known to locals as the New Macedonia. 

A small number of people choose to stay at the building on 158 and continues to worship there today. It's known as the Church of Christ at Macedonia. The community is known as Macedonia. To locals, the congregation that meets at the building on 158 is known as the old Macedonia.


At some point since 2001, because the names of the 2 buildings were similar and to people/businesses not familiar with the location of the 2 Macedonias would often get confused (New Macedonia and Old Macedonia).So the elders of the congregation that meets at the building (New Macedonia) on Highway 20 decided to change their name to Cornerstone.


Kelly Crotts is the business owner of Full Court Press. He is currently continuing to operate out of an old tire repair shop beside Haddock's quick stop on Highway 20 and has help from local parents who are delivering orders of all-star uniforms/shirts etc... for him.  Who wants to be associated with him, I'll never understand.


Kelly moved to this area from Greenville, Mississippi in the early to mid 1990's. He, along with family members joined the congregation that met at County Rd 158. With less than 5 years since graduating high school in Mississippi, He substituted at the preschool-Sonshine School - teaching 2-5 year olds and was very involved with the youth and teens. Eventually he was hired on as a full time preschool teacher for the Sonshine School.


Do you know many 18-24 year old males who want to teach toddlers?


Over the course of many years between the old building and the new building and the temporary current building on County Rd 200 (due to storm damage of building on 20) Kelly drove the church van and took many, many kids and teens to multiple outings, went to ballgames, coached their Dixie Youth teams etc... He has worked with multiple, multiple young boys on memory verses and meeting them at the building to help them learn their verses. He became a trusting mentor to many teens and was loved by them and their parents.


It is no secret that he has bought vehicles for multiple teen boys over the years, bought many needed items for them and their families. He helped a lot of people out. They fully trusted him. He presented himself as a genuine, caring person to everyone.


He eventually married and is currently married to the same lady.


Most of these teens came from single parent homes and the teens worked for him at his T-shirt business.

From another reader:

Kelly Crotts who is a member of the Central Heights community was arrested today and has bonded out. He attended Cornerstone church of Christ for years. He was very involved with the youth. As a matter of fact he was the involvement minister on the church bulletin, He was the youth minister for several years. He taught preschool there. He was also very involved with central school. He was the announcer for football and basketball games. He even coached boys jv basketball at one time. He has been doing things to teenage boys for the past 20 years.

Our Final Take: This involvement minister was just a little too involved.