A metro Atlanta youth pastor faces charges after police say he used a popular messaging app to share and download sexually explicit videos involving children.

A Roswell man has been arrested on six counts of possession of child sexual abuse material following an investigation by the Roswell Police Department’s Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) unit.

ROSWELL, GA — A 31-year-old youth pastor from Futures Church in Alpharetta was arrested in Roswell on Wednesday on child sex charges.

According to the warrant, the youth pastor uploaded multiple videos that "depict a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct" and shared the images using the messenger app Kik.