Speaker and Topic:
Greg W Burch
Child Protection Policy
Two or three main concepts I learned
· Any child that hasn’t reached their relationship with God and come to the feet of the cross are children at risk
We must create:
COMUNITY OF LIVING FAITH
· Evangelism and discipleship
· Children are interested in who God is and how much God loves them
· Just because children are responsive to the gospel doesn’t mean we can be careless in how we share the gospel
· We need to make sure children come to Christ foe themselves and not because we are manipulating them
· Proverbs 20:26 raising the child correctly .
· We need to include children
COMMUNITY OF JUSTICE
· Micah 6:8 act justly
o Receive children, recognize that they deserve full access to God
o Children recognize justice!
· What is justice (according to Chris Marshall- Little book on Justice)
o Distribution, equal distribution of social benefits and penalties
o Power, social power in society. Social benefits, injustice happens when social powers deny this benefits to the children. do not abuse social power. We must recognize as a community of justice that we are powerful, we can influence to the positive and to the negative.
o Equity, fairness and balance of social benefits
o Rights, justice gives moral
· Dignity
o Dignity recognizes that children are created in the image of God.
o All human being are made with dignity, in the image of God
o God does not see children any other way that as his creation
o We must eliminate stigmas
§ People create stigmas about children so often, and create a barrier between children that have needs and the people that can offer help
o We must create bonds between the church community and the children from the streets so that they can begin being viewed differently and offer them the opportunity to begin anew.
· Dignity
· Inclusivity
o Children regardless of their decisions must be cared for
o Children regardless of their race, class, gender
· As a community of Justice we are challenged to care for boys and girls equally.
o Distribution equally no matter their gender, age, class, or race
o In the area of equaty
o Children and adults both have equal rights to freedom or religion and
COMMUITY OF PRETECTION
· Psalms 10:18
COMMUMITY OF PROVISION
· Isaiah 58:6-6
· Care for the most oppressed
· There should be no strings attached to us providing for the children’s need
· There must be a biblical foundation, but not with “rule” or expectation of them responding immediately and positively
Acts of charity can be dangerous because it givers feel good about actions that accomplished very little
Or even create dependency
Undisciplined giving can be just as destructive as the poverty that it is meant to help
· We are to provide (as followers of God) for the needs of those unfortunate
COMMUNITY OF PARTICIPATION'
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Personally challenged by:
· Child protection policies are :
Child protection (Cont)
· Child protection policies and procedures help to create “child-safe” organizations:
o That have an “aware culture”
o That do everything possible to prevent intentional and unintentional harm coming to children
o Where children feel safe
o Where children can speak out
o Where children are listened to
· Where children and staff are respected and empowered
· Have I been working to make children feel protected?
Unanswered questions:
· What should I change about myself to be following God’s call for my life?
Outreach:
· My outreach location might have changes. I wish t go back to my home country and town to work with HT victims.
