Robert Morris, the founder of Southlake-based Gateway Church, one of the nation's largest congregations, is scheduled to appear before a judge Friday in Pawhuska, Oklahoma, on charges of sexually abusing a child in the 1980s.

The disgraced former Texas megachurch pastor Robert Morris made his first appearance before a judge on Friday morning in an Oklahoma court,  facing charges of sexual abuse of a child in the 1980s. Though Morris's appearance in the Osage County Courthouse in Pawhuska,

Gateway Church founder Robert Morris appeared before an Osage County, Oklahoma, judge for a short court hearing Friday morning on child sexual abuse charges.