Safe Church at GC81
Hundreds of friends and allies stopped by the Safe Church booth in the General Convention Exhibit Hall in June in Louisville, Kentucky. Thank you one and all for dropping by to share questions, suggestions, successes, and affirmations. We gave away all our reusable utensil kits and tons of pens, stickers, and magnets. The booth crew […]
Safe Church Contacts
We strive to keep dioceses up to date on the latest resources. Everyone on our general distribution list receives this quarterly update. We also keep a schedule of online trainings and drop-in sessions for diocesan-level staff who facilitate policy, protocols, training, and responding. Please use this link to update your diocesan staff contacts. Julie from […]
The Anglican Communion Safe Church Commission
The Anglican Consultative Council in Accra, Ghana, in 2023 (ACC-18) committed itself to making the safety of all people in the provinces of the Anglican Communion a priority of its focus, resource allocation and actions; again encouraged member churches and agencies to use and implement the International Anglican Safe Church Commission Charter, Protocol and Guidelines; and requested that the commission […]
Safe Church at General Convention
Attending the 81st General Convention in Louisville this month? Please come visit us at booth No. 515 in the Exhibit Hall. Our consultants, Tim Spannaus, Eric Travis, and Julie Travis, will provide some giveaways and share resources and wisdom. Christy Schiller from Praesidium Inc. will also be there to respond to questions and share information […]
Safe Church Creates Holy Space
The guiding principle of Safe Church is to protect the vulnerable and offer the opportunity for us, as Episcopalians, to be good neighbors to one another. The new and updated program, Safe Church, Safe Communities, was launched in the summer of 2021. Safe Church, Safe Communities provides new and updated training modules for clergy, laity, […]
Episcopal Church welcomes new Safe Church manager, seeks youth ministry officer
The Episcopal Church Department of Faith Formation is pleased to announce the hire of a new half-time manager for Safe Church and special projects. After conducting a national search and subsequent interviews, the hiring committee unanimously selected Bronwyn Skov for the position. Skov will shift from her current role as officer for youth ministry in late February.
Task force announces training updates to Safe Church curriculum
Three new courses related to safe church policies within The Episcopal Church will be released July 14, with webinars planned soon to help dioceses transition to a new learning platform. All new courses will be launched to create a new program called Safe Church, Safe Communities.
Episcopal Church Task Force Develops New Training for Safe Church, Anti-Sexual Harassment Policies
A task force created to develop materials for The Episcopal Church related to anti-sexual harassment and safe church policies announces the upcoming launch of nine new training modules. Appointed by General Convention in 2018, the Task Force to Develop Model Sexual Harassment Policies and Safe Church Training surveyed the wider church about what would be most helpful in the trainings and held 18 listening sessions with some of the 403 respondents.
General Convention Task Force seeks participants representing the diversity of the church for Safe Church Listening Groups
Responses requested by: October 18, 2020
Task Force presents updated Safe Church Policies
The General Convention Task Force to Update Sexual Misconduct Policies has updated the Safe Church Policies for the Episcopal Church to help and enable clergy, congregations, volunteers, and individuals understand and live into the importance of this training. Robin Hammeal-Urban of the Diocese of Connecticut, chair of the Task Force, explained that the work of […]
Safe Church Model Policies for social media and digital communications
The Youth Ministries Office receives inquiries on many different topics. One of the perennial questions is, “Has there been an update of the Model Policies for Safe Church that includes social networking and digital communications?” It has been ten years since the General Convention adopted Resolution B008 calling for the “Protection of Children and Youth […]
Episcopal Church Policies on Gun Safety and Gun Reform
“We stand together in hope. We stand together in faith. We stand together in love. We stand individually as ambassadors of hope, vessels of faith, and sentinels of love. We stand as a community committed to making no peace with gun violence. We pray for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit to inflame and enkindle […]
Presiding bishop offers pastoral word on church safety, accountability
Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Michael Curry addressed concerns related to safety and accountability in the following video statement. A transcript can be found below the video.
Letter to The Episcopal Church from Presiding Bishop and President of the House of Deputies: COVID-19 safety recommendations from Presiding Officers’ General Convention Design Group
Earlier this week, the Presiding Officers’ General Convention Design Group met for a second time to continue planning a shorter, smaller, safer General Convention, which will take place in Baltimore from July 8 to 11.
Episcopal Church Executive Council: Opening remarks from House of Deputies President Julia Ayala Harris
Following are opening remarks, lightly edited for clarity, by House of Deputies President Julia Ayala Harris to the Executive Council of The Episcopal Church, meeting Oct. 20-21 at Kanuga conference center in Hendersonville, North Carolina.
Epiphany Lutheran & Episcopal Church goes from disrepair to the emerging church
By Hank Jeannel By 1994, Fort Ord, a U.S. Army post in California’s Monterey Bay, was decommissioned. The thriving community of Marina, whose residents included many military families and veterans, would forever change. Epiphany Lutheran Church was “hanging by a string,” the Rev. Jon Perez said. “There were only five people left in the church […]
