10 calls to action for Southern Baptists on sexual abuse

BY PHILLIP BETHANCOURT,
The Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission
Feb 19, 2019

The Houston Chronicle recently published a series of articles related to sexual abuse and the Southern Baptist Convention. The stories included are heartbreaking.  Part 1 brought to light over 380 Southern Baptist Church leaders or volunteers accused of sexual abuse or misconduct impacting over 700 victims and survivors. Part 2 covered predators who successfully moved from one church to another. Part 3 dealt with youth pastors who prey on teens by using their access to students through the church to groom and sexually abuse youth. More→  

Abuse Prevention Resources

The Arizona Southern Baptist Convention has a list of resource links available for churches to help protect their members from abuse. More →

Blog Post

What does it mean to do “due diligence” in hiring staff or recruiting volunteers? Recommended reading from Dr. Johnson for your church.  A blog post by John Litzler, from Church Law.

Healthy Church

Three Arizona Southern Baptist pastors discuss what it looks like to be a healthy church.

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Unity Tour

Unity Tour coming to Yuma in June.

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Zona Camp

Are you ready for Zona? June 23-28, at BIOLA University.

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BGR 2M2E Event

This event has been cancelled.

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Engage 24 presents evangelism challenge

By Eddy Pearson, AZSBC church life team facilitator –

The purpose of Engage 24, held Feb. 5-6 in Phoenix, was to raise the evangelistic temperature among Arizona Southern Baptists’ lead pastors. The attendance peaked at 224 registered, with more wanting to attend.

In partnership with the North American Mission Board, we asked North Phoenix Baptist Church to host the event, and the NPBC staff could not have been more helpful. Props to Noe Garcia, lead pastor, for having everything ready to make Engage 24 top notch.

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