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… Every year our church goes on a weekend retreat to Berea – a camp a few … school outreach program in which we open the door of our church's Student Center and invite our community’s middle … opioid pills – an alternative that he thought would be a ‘safe’ (albeit stronger) substitute due to the fact doctors …
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… This story is part of Safe Church Ministry's SOS series . In this post, an anonymous … “normal” day got started. I knew I had a meeting at the church that night. Little did I know that this meeting would …
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… but also in response to that person by everyone else in church. To begin talking about ministry with people with … hospitality. When Sarah’s church welcomes her into the church’s programming, hospitality doubles. Sarah’s autism … love, learn the Bible in the ways she can, and keep her safe. For two blessed hours every Sunday morning, Sarah’s …
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… gifting and the forces of good and evil, someone in the church. But who? Satan and his powers were surrounding me. I … I remembered a conversation I had with Trish, a lady from church. “Kristina, I had gotten an angel from one of my … this angel. It was supposed to watch over me and keep me safe, so I hung it on the wall. I felt an enormous evil …
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… of Chaplaincy and Care ministry for the Christian Reformed Church (CRC) in 2009 and 2010, my interest in taking another … provides multiple venues for emotionally and spiritually safe reflection on clinical experiences including …
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… Such attitudes and environments exclude people from church. We believe that everyone should have the opportunity … for the common good…” (Corinthians 12:7). In healthy churches, everybody belongs . “Above all, love each other … Healthy boundaries involve: keeping vulnerable people safe being realistic about my own abilities and limits so …
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… died and rose again, his, John’s Richard’s, life was safe, hid with Christ, forever secure, with a God who is … a blessing to Neland. He regularly played his trumpet in church, and he was a very strong trumpeter. Also, for …
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… assault, Ravensbergen said she “could not worship in a church that had [the abuser’s] picture in the council room.” … Suffer Too Pastors aren’t the only ones who get punished. Churches who don’t respond appropriately to charges against …
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… Many people who grew up in the church with Sunday school stories will easily remember the … who in turn is deceitful to Jacob but also offers him a safe haven for many years. After years of being separated …
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… the loss of what could have been, what should have been: a safe, unified family, absent of abuse and tragedy. Instead, … and responding to abuse; they also have a workshop for churches to learn how to prevent sexual abuse within their …
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… This story is part of Safe Church Ministry's SOS series . In this post, an …
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… the one with the illness, find someone you trust and feel safe with, someone that can transform your experience of the … remembered her. There were no family, no friends, no church family present. How might the family and church family empowered one another to be an abiding …