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Sexual Assault Awareness Month is a campaign to raise public awareness
​about sexual violence and educate communities on how to prevent it.
The 2019 campaign theme, I Ask, champions the message
that asking for consent is a healthy, normal, and necessary part of everyday interactions.



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Consent can be complicated when one holds more power than the other. By being mindful of the ways power imbalances may impact consent, you can take steps to ensure your partner feels comfortable communicating their needs.  ​Read More here


Read an article a day to learn about abuse in the church. 
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Commit to making your church unattractive to predators!


Click here for Sample Emails you can send to church leadership to invite them to read these articles ​

April 1
A Prayer for the Church
A Letter to Congregations
 

April 2
It's Abuse, Not an Affair, And it Appears We Need to be Reminded...Again... - Christianity Today

April 3
Quick Guide - What is Domestic Violence?

April 4
Startling Statistics: Child Sexual Abuse and What the Church Can Begin Doing About It 

April 5
18 Ways Churches can Fight Sexual Assault 

April 6
ANONYMOUS: From Someone Injured by the Church

April 7
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude.
It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;
it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.
Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

1 Corinthians 13:4-7

April 8
Dear Church: Hear the Word of the Lord

April 9
The Grooming Behavior of Pastoral Predators – Part 1
 The Grooming Behavior of Pastoral Predators – Part 2 


April 10
As A Pastor, What are the Most Important Things for me to Know about Domestic Abuse?

April 11
Grace - Child Safeguarding Certification for your Church

April 12
9 Anti-Abuse Practices Your Church Needs To Adopt  
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April 13
Healthy Ways to Help Sexual Abuse Survivors in Your Church

April 14
But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin,
it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened around his neck
and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.

Matthew 18:6

April 15
Christians How Not to be Flying Monkeys for Predators

April 16
 Sex Offenders Groom Churches Too

April 17
Unholy Charade

April 18
Jimmy Hinton's Website

April 19
What We Long for the Church to Do about Sexual Violence:
Four practical steps  churches can take to eliminate sexual violence. 


April 20
What to Say to Someone who Shares a Sexual Assault Story with You

April 21
In the same way
husbands should love their wives as their own bodies.
He who loves his wife loves himself. F
or no one ever hated his own flesh,
but nourishes and cherishes it,
just as Christ does the church,
Ephesians 5:28,29

April 22
5 Ways You Might be Enabling Abuse in the Church

April 23
 Clergy and Narcissistic Personality Disorder

April 24
How to Develop a Safety Plan for Domestic Violence

April 25
Response Plan for Sexual Abuse Against a Minor at Church by Brad Hambrick

April 26
The National Association for Christian Recovery - Things a Church Can Do 
There are LOTS of things a local church can do to not be a passive bystander in the face of abuse.

April 27
How to Care for Abuse Survivors in Your Congregation by Krispin Mayfield
Practical ways to care for the wounded.

April 28
The saying is trustworthy: If anyone aspires to the office of overseer, he desires a noble task.  
Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife,
sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not a drunkard,
not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money.  
He must manage his own household well, with all dignity keeping his children submissive,
for if someone does not know how to manage his own household,
how will he care for God’s church? He must not be a recent convert,
or he may become puffed up with conceit and fall into the condemnation of the devil.  
Moreover, he must be well thought of by outsiders, so that he may not fall into disgrace, into a snare of the devil.”
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1 Timothy 3:1-7

April 29
How to Confront a Toxic Pastor in a Toxic Church

April 30
Why Do We Need to Make Church Unattractive to Predators?
How Can We Make Church Unattractive to Predators?
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  • I NEED HELP NOW
  • MISSION
  • AWARENESS
  • PREVENTION
  • HEALING
  • CONGREGATION
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  • STATISTICS
  • DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
  • CONTACT US
  • DISCLAIMER
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