New Life Community Church: Child Safety Program

Our Child Safety Program

New Life Church has a Child Safety Program to protect our children from child abuse. This program is a result of three years of personal education, research into other programs, professional consultations, and practical experience.

If you are a parent

We want you to know that we have gone to great lengths to provide for the safety of your child. Both our volunteer workers and our paid staff have gone through an education and screening process in order to participate in children's ministry. We have made physical changes to the building and structural changes to our programs to make abuse very difficult. The church should never be a place where children are harmed physically, emotionally, or sexually. Jesus loved children and blessed them. He never abused them.

If you are a church leader

We gladly offer this material to you as a initial starting point for developing your own child safety program. Click here for a few tips regarding Starting a Child Safety Program. If you wish to use parts of our program please keep in mind that these materials are copyrighted. While these documents are offered free of charge, we do request that you give proper recognition when using them.

We also highly recommend that you explore other Child Safety programs and gain information from groups such as Reducingtherisk.com.

Child Safety Program Materials

Our Child Safety Manual - Our manual is given to every regular attender and is required reading for any church worker.

Every volunteer who works with children must obtain an application packet. Our Application Packet Contains:

Child Safety Packet Instruction Sheet
Child Safety Application
Recognizing Child Abuse and Neglect
Child Safety Resolution
Interview Information Sheet
Commonwealth of Virginia Child Protective Services Release of Information Form (each state has a different form for screening people -- contact your state Child Protective Services department)

If you are developing your own Child Safety Program, these materials are also available (as PDF files):

Questions? Contact us.

Sex Offender Web Sites

Anyone with web access can see who the offenders are:

National registries: Sex Offender Registries
In Virginia: Sex Offender Web Site.
Know who your neighbors are . . . Go to http://www12.familywatchdog.us/... enter your address... it will show a "house", that's yours... all the little colored boxes are sex offenders. Click on them and you get a name & picture of the person along with their crime. Pretty amazing and scary.