Cedar Rapids Pastor Jonathan L. Offt, One of Nine Men Arrested in Prostitution Sting

Rev. Jonathan L. Offt, senior pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church in Cedar Rapids, one of nine men arrested in prostitution sting.

Rev. Jonathan Offt, arrested in prostitution sting

Rev. Jonathan L. Offt, 41, senior pastor at Trinity Lutheran Church in Cedar Rapids, was one of nine men arrested last Friday in a prostitution sting. All of the men reportedly responded to an advertisement on a website and arranged to meet an undercover female officer who was posing as a prostitute. Marion Police Sgt. Lance Miller said Offt arrived at the meeting place and was arrested when he offered money in exchange for a sex act. Officers in tactical gear performed the arrests, the Gazette reports.

Offt was installed as senior pastor at Trinity Lutheran in 2003. A native of Blairstown, he previously served as a chaplain in clinical pastoral education in St. Louis and Des Moines, as assistant pastor at Our Redeemer Lutheran Church in Iowa City and as chaplain/administrator of the Davenport Lutheran Home, according to Gazette archives. Offt and his wife had one daughter when his installation was announced. Source

His name has since been removed from the church's website. Oh what a tangled web we weave......