In this day with all of the awareness of child sex abuse in churches and the publicity given to places and Christian leaders who have not dealt with those issues correctly, this is a hot topic issue. We need to make sure that we are doing what we can to see that children are protected, that our ministry and our own reputation are not destroyed.
John Moore, former leader of college ministry for Southern Baptists, is retired and living in Texas where he is doing a lot of supply or fill-in preaching. In the Baptist Association where he lives, in order to be on their recommended list of supply preachers, you must have taken the one hour Ministry Safe program. It is an on-line one hour training at ministrysafe.com.
John recommended this to me and said this, "I believe that every Campus Minister needs to take this class and better learn how to protect themselves and their ministry.....If I were still a State Director (he formally led the BCM ministry in Louisiana), I would require it for each of our Campus Ministers.
The one hour on-line class costs $10 for a single user. You will find other options for materials and further training there that have the cost listed, etc. Can you afford NOT TO DO THIS TRAINING?
Thanks to John for this heads-up. I am always open to all of you letting me know of resources and needs that we need to share across our network of College Ministers. You can facebook me or email me at arlissdickerson@gmail.com.
Arliss Dickerson is the author of five books on college ministry available in eBook format for 99 cents at amazon.com. His book FIXING A BROKEN COLLEGE MINISTRY is available in paperback.
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