Safe Church Assessment Introduction and Instructions
Use this tool to help assess how safe your congregation is from all kinds of abuse, and how you might nurture a culture that resists abuse.
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Use this tool to help assess how safe your congregation is from all kinds of abuse, and how you might nurture a culture that resists abuse.
Join us at Inspire 2022! Safe Church is hosting a pre-conference event on August 4, as well as four other workshops.
Learn more about the work of Safe Church Ministry, including information on resources, staff, and services (i.e. coaching, consulting, and grants).
Find resources to commemorate Abuse Awareness Sunday 2022!
A quick video highlighting 2021 with Safe Church Ministry!
In this post, you'll find study guides with discussion questions, quotes, and themes for hosting a 5-session book study on A Church Called TOV.
This webinar features a conversation with guest speaker, Dr. Scot Mcknight, author of The Church Called Tov: Forming a Goodness Culture that Resists Abuses of Power and Promotes Healing and the Safe Church Ministry Team.
Here is a list of basic of resources and ways you can stay connected to Safe Church Ministry for up-to-date information.
This free 90-minute webinar will help faith communities identify the signs of abuse of power and offer a roadmap for church renewal.
We heard from a variety of people that helped inspire us to create healthy and safe cultures in our congregations and communities.
Resources for Abuse Awareness Sunday 2021 "Safe Church Ministry: Not Just a Policy, a Way of Being the Church." Includes a sermon starter, prayers and song suggestions along with ideas for moving beyond policy to become a safer church.
As of last month, I left my job at the seminary to begin working with Safe Church Ministry. Perhaps you are wondering why.
How might the communication system of trees help churches learn to steward cultures of renewal, health, healing, and wholeness?
Safe Church Ministry is excited to welcome Dr. Amanda Benkhuysen as the new director.
God has blessed Safe Church Ministry, and Safe Church has blessed individuals, congregations, and classes, even during a pandemic. Join in the blessings, support Safe Church Ministry in 2020.
Abuse Awareness Sunday provides an opportunity for churches to bring abuse, which affects so many of us directly or indirectly, into the light.
A 2020 update on the ongoing development of the abuse of power training for pastors in the Christian Reformed Church.
I'm wondering how to keep the work of Safe Church (abuse awareness, prevention, and response) going during COVID. Any ideas?
Safe Church is hosting a monthly webinar in order to better connect, collaborate, and coordinate to end abuse. Here's an overview of all the 2020 webinars!
Safe Church leadership will soon change as I plan to retire in November. Yet the work of equipping congregations in abuse awareness, prevention, and response will continue.
Safe Church seems to have received a lot of attention in recent years, in part due to the #MeToo movement. Many people are surprised to find out that it has a much longer history.
On January 29, Safe Church hosted it's first webinar of the year. This article is a highlight reel of the event.
These are adoptions from Synod 2019 that pertain to specifically to classes. These adoptions were recommended from the Addressing Abuse of Power Report.
This sermon explores how we as a church lament our history and move from using power for ourselves to using our power with generosity, the way Jesus modeled and taught us.
Safe Church says goodbye to Miriam Spies, who has been a valuable partner in our work. She will be pursuing further education.