Ministry Check – Tag – MinistryWatch
Focus will be on training churches to use other databases and background checks.
A proposed online database that would list the names of abusive Southern Baptist pastors is now on hold, with no names likely to be added to the website by the denomination’s annual meeting this summer.
Abuse reform task force leader: ‘We took this work as far as we were allowed to take it.’
Leaders of a volunteer task force charged with implementing abuse reforms in the nation’s largest Protestant denomination say they were given an impossible task.
The new nonprofit will oversee abuse database and reforms
Leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention’s abuse reform task force announced plans Monday (Feb. 19) to launch a new, independent nonprofit to host a database of abuse pastors and to implement other reforms.
(RNS) — For years, Southern Baptist leaders told members of the nation’s largest Protestant denomination that setting up a database to track abusive pastors was impossible. Now that impossible task is one step closer to ...
Southern Baptists Change Direction on Sexual Abuse after Years of Delay
A Southern Baptist task force has asked the denomination to set up a “Ministry Check” website to track abusive pastors, church employees, and volunteers and to spend millions on reforms to prevent abuse and care ...
