What was the crime that got him on the registry? The more I hear about it, the more sympathy I have for the people on it. You can be registered as a sex offender for some fairly mundane stuff Technicslly, I doubt there are many people who havn't done something that could get them registered if the wrong police officer happened by at the wrong moment.
In 2009 Gilyard plead guilty to lewd conduct and lewd molestation of two underage girls. While he was the pastor of Shiloh Baptist Church Gilyard molested a 15-year-old girl and sent a lewd text message to another. Under the conditions of his plea agreement, Gilyard cannot have “unsupervised contact with children under 18 years old,” and his new church has taken extraordinary steps to help Gilyard stick to the terms of his deal
From article. But I still don't think the best way to deal with these sorts of offenders is to force them to the fringes of society, so, counter intuitively, and against my original WTF reaction, I'm going to say good on the church for giiving the guy a chance. Christian forgiveness, doing it right, maybe.