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Even to Your Old Age...
Is our church body doing enough to advocate for our elderly, when they no longer have their voice and have become the “least among us”?
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January 21, 2010
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Questions From the Pickle Jar: Teens and Sex
A book from Faith Alive Christian Resources for teens that humorously covers topics related to healthy sexuality.
January 21, 2010
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Emotional Abuse: What You Should Know
This free guide provides a thorough description of emotional abuse, victims, abusers, and effects along with information about what to do when you recognize it and how to report it.
January 21, 2010
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Preventing Child Abuse: Creating a Safe Place
Preventing Child Abuse will guide churches and nonprofit organizations through the process of designing and implementing child safety policies and procedures.
January 18, 2010
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Sample Letters of Invittion for Safe Church Recruiting
Sample letters for pastors, churches, and prospective Safe Team Members to be used for Classis Safe Church Team recruiting.
January 18, 2010
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Sample Recruitment Announcments for Safe Church Team
Sample bulletin announcements for recruiting members for a classis Safe Church Team.
January 18, 2010
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Selection Criteria for Safe Church Team
Guidelines for recruiting and selecting the members of a Safe Church Team.
January 18, 2010
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Process for Establishing a Classis Safe Church Team
This document includes all the steps, approximate costs and the organizational structure of a Safe Church Team.
January 18, 2010
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The Advocate Role on the Safe Church Team
Advocates provide support for claimants through the advisory panel process. This document outlines the role of the advocate.
January 11, 2010
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Recommended Screening Steps Checklist
This chart is from Preventing Child Abuse: A Guide for Churches (Faith Alive Christian Resources, 2003, page 30) will help you apply screening steps to volunteer and staff positions.
January 11, 2010
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Sample Interview Questions for Volunteers and Minors
This document contains sample interview and screening questions to ask an adult or a minor applying for a volunteer position with your church which will involve working with children and or youth.
January 11, 2010
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Sample Apllication Form
This form is for those applying for a volunteer position that involves the supervision, care, or instruction of children and youth. The church can use this form to provide a safe and secure environment for those children and youth who participate in its programs and use its facilities.
January 11, 2010
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Parental Consent Medical Form
This form can be used for situations when children and youth leave the community for a church-related activity or youth are gone overnight for an event.
November 17, 2014
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Breaking the Silence: A Question of Culture
Our denomination and each of our congregations also have a culture. Is it a culture that promotes openness, or one that encourages hiding difficult struggles? What messages are implicit in our culture about disclosing experiences of abuse?
November 24, 2014
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Ties That Bind
Most people think only of physical abuse when they consider domestic violence, yet financial abuse happens in 98% of all cases of domestic violence.
December 2, 2014
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#WhyIStayed
Are we able to see the evidence of abuse? Are those who suffer abuse in a relationship able to share what is happening without being blamed or judged?
December 9, 2014
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Living Out of Blessedness
The opposite of living out of a blessed consciousness is living out of a cursed consciousness.
December 19, 2014
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Christmas Reflections
Wherever we find ourselves right now, we must keep the long view in mind.
December 27, 2014
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Not a Piece of Furniture
They wouldn’t want anyone treating one of their kids like a forgettable piece of furniture!
January 3, 2015
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What’s in a Name?
What language and labels are we using in our churches? By our words, do we extend grace and mercy to all people? Or do we label them by what they have done?
January 10, 2015
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Vulnerable Is the Word to Remember
You never know who is walking into the front door of your church. A safe church policy is the insurance policy that will protect you when you need it the most.
January 25, 2015
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My Daughter!
In our very broken world, training up a child is not an easy task. How could our church communities be more helpful to parents?
January 28, 2015
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Is Someone Missing?
One in four females and one in six males will be sexually abused by the time they reach 18. Are they missing from our congregations?
February 7, 2015
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“Yes Ma’am…Yes Ma’am.”
A report from the American Psychological Association states that childhood psychological abuse not only is just as harmful as sexual and/or physical abuse, but can have “long-lasting impact”.
February 16, 2015
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Crying Rape
Which story would you rather read: A story about a woman alleging gang rape at a prestigious university? Or a story about how the reporter covering that story failed to maintain good journalistic standards?