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… Drew and Robin Paterson recently contacted Safe Church to alert us to the troubling problem of … on children and ways to protect children, please see Safe Church's Pornography Awareness resources . Dear Mr. … Our family attends one of the Christian Reformed Churches in Colorado. Over the past year, we have faced some …
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… include one on how much we should give to support our church, the love/hate relationship many of us have with the … online, or even Skype call during a worship service.” Safe Church — Teaching Boys to Respect Girls: Why It Matters …
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… at home with my wife and daughter; on weekends, we go to church, run errands, visit with friends, take walks and … and thousands upon thousands of neighborhood and village churches, it often looks to me like people are running … of her Honduran heritage as her American heritage, and as safe from crime and violence in one country as the other. By …
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… of the trouble spots we have perceived in our work with churches. *** There’s a running joke amongst worship … lead musician steps down or takes a new job? Why would a church go through a lengthy hiring process when there are … to offend and displease? Who do they report to? Who is safe to talk to? What recourse does the church/council have …
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… been privileged to participate in the effectiveness of the Church’s diaconal calling at the international level. Working … , Office of Social Justice , Race Relations ,and Safe Church , the Mercy and Justice Ministries of the CRCNA …
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… good. In these years we would encourage local pastors and churches to preach them, teach them in Sunday School and … and confessions. This statement would provide a sort of safe harbor for the office bearer and give them space to …
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… then keeps this precious population from feeling safe enough to access the social, health and housing services … How Should the Church Respond to the Tents That Line Our Urban Streets? …
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… that your congregation belongs to the neighborhood. Churches can look like exclusive clubs that are only for … Dwight J. Friesen’s book The New Parish: How Neighborhood Churches Are Transforming Mission, Discipleship, and … it wants to be an asset to the community by sharing the church building’s often-empty spaces during the week? Share …
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… violent religious and ethnic persecution that threatened churches, homes, and their very lives. They arrived in the US … it” (1 Cor. 12:26). This is the beauty and mystery of the Church. Confession time: I am not a pastor. Though I aspire …
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… regularly. For each of these sub-cultures within the church, that primary expectation is “normal’ to them. In … the congregation may well be “We like to keep this place safe for all of us of a particular sub-culture.” A pastor …
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… I’m still hanging onto the hope that one day, when it’s safe for everyone to return to worship in our sanctuary, I’ll … what that might look like in your context. Whether your church has already fully returned to in-person worship, is … No doubt, since you stopped meeting with the whole church in person in 2020, people have marked milestones both …
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… matters to Jesus and to the Body of Christ in the world. Safe Church Ministry seeks to walk in the way of Jesus, …