So for the past couple of month a committee at the church has been called together to help develop a Safe Sanctuary policy for our congregation. This is a set of policies and procedures that helps to ensure our children, youth and the adults that work with them are as safe as possible when they are in our building. Abuse prevention has been a long time coming and a very important thing for our all church congregations.
I just finished a rough draft of the policies that we will be going over on requirements, conduct, reporting and various other forms used by staff and volunteers to prevent a breakdown of trust and abuse in the local church. I am excited about the progress that we are making on this front…though at times it is tough to keep a positive outlook when hours are spent in Word formatting lines on a pages that will hopefully never have to be used.
This post is light years away from my last 🙂
