From Compass to ICOM: Rob Maupin and Niños de México: Where is the Accountability?

Recently, the International Conference on Missions announced that it is replacing outgoing president and executive director David Empson with Christian Church minister Rob Maupin. According to the organization’s press release, Maupin has served “[s]ince 2014…on the staff of Compass Christian Church in Dallas.” 

Maupin had served at Compass both as the Missions Pastor and (see the screenshot below), most recently, as the "Executive Pastor of Ministry."

I am posting about this announcement on this blog, together with an explanation of how Compass Christian Church was a stalwart financial supporter of Niños de Mexico until the ministry’s abrupt closure amid the damning GRACE report, as a call for accountability. 

While Compass has mostly eliminated any mention of its decades of involvement with Niños from its website and social media, traces remain--videos, images, and archived web pages--some of which I have compiled here, along with a call to Maupin and Compass to issue a formal apology to the victims whose calls went ignored by Compass leadership, and a commitment to do differently in the future. 

According to an archived version of the Compass Christian Church website dated July 2025, Compass had supported Ninos for 45 years.

Since Ninos was about 58 years old at its end, that means Compass had been a supporter of Niños for nearly 80 percent of its existence, which according to the GRACE report covers years and years of abuse affecting scores of children. 

As late as 2023, when I first began posting online about the abuses at Niños, Compass posted on Facebook about their financial campaign which was focused on one of the homes for girls at Niños called “Casa Betel.” 

This was none other than the home where the now convicted pedophile, David Javier Colosia molested multiple girls under his charge as a house parent. Colosia’s abuse was made known to multiple members of Niños staff, who took no action and allowed the abuse to continue, leading to the firing of two Niños employees. 

I personally communicated this information to Compass’s lead minister, Drew Sherman, via email in addition to the public communications Niños itself was sending to supporters during that period. Despite this, Compass continued to support Niños publicly, and neither leadership nor staff engaged with whistleblowers or survivors who were raising concerns.

Instead, this is what Niños de Mexico board member Phil Myers assured a reporter at a local Missouri newspaper: 

Miller has brought his concerns to supporting churches of Niños de Mexico. Despite this, Myers said, Niños has not seen a major dent in its fundraising efforts. “I don’t know the figures, but actually our donations are not down,” he said. “Our biggest donors, biggest churches, ones out in Florida, we’ve got them in Texas [emphasis mine], most of them are saying ‘Absolutely, we’re sticking with you.’ ” 

"Absolutely, we're sticking with you."

This is beyond concerning. 

How does a church of approximately 2500 attendees (according to a 2021 report) encounter sustained public allegations of abuse, survivor testimony, investigative reporting, and direct communication from concerned individuals, and yet continue to offer unqualified support to the very institution being accused, without publicly engaging those concerns?

Compass still supported the institution as late as 2025 with a planned short-term mission trip (see above screenshot) that was, of course, cancelled after a major intervention by the Mexican government in July of 2025 removing the children at Niños. 

I say all this to say that while I am thankful that ICOM chose not to allow Niños to present at their 2023 and 2024 conferences, my question is whether that decision would have been made had Rob Maupin been the executive director.

One reason why the church continues to fail victims of abuse is that we keep recycling all the same people who failed to protect them in the first place. We simply rinse and repeat. 

No apologies. 

No acknowledgement. 

Just smooth it all over until the next abuse crisis. 

We are not talking about little differences of doctrine, vision, or ministry style. 

We are talking about all the evidence of child abuse that a 2500-person Restoration Movement megachurch completely disengaged with before quietly moving on after 45 years of financial support.

Whatever internal communication Compass sent to its own people is not sufficient because they did not sin against their members, primarily; they sinned against the children whose abuse went ignored by Compass leadership.

My call is simple:

Rob Maupin and Compass owe it to every victim to issue a sincere apology for their role in perpetuating this abuse through their financial support and failure to do their due diligence in cross-examining the abuse allegations. Maupin specifically needs to clarify how his response as a minister at Compass would differ now that he is the executive director of the most storied missions institution in the Christian Churches.

Each and every victim of Niños is owed at least that. 

(I reached out to Maupin before publication, but he did not respond) 

Deleted paged from the Compass website showing its support for Niños de Mexico.