Does your church know what to do if the worst happens to a child?
When Child Abuse Comes to Church is a practical guidebook, not only for those who have made the terrible discovery that child sexual abuse has occurred right in their own congregation it is for all who want to learn how to make their church safer for children, how to deal with the growing number of sexual "perpetrators" in dire need of help, and most especially how to guide, counsel and comfort parents of young victims.
Pastor Bill Anderson's church struggled for answers and practical guidance inside a maelstrom of pain and revulsion that overtook their congregation following one of the worst, most-publicized cases of multiple-child-abuse in recent history. And it began right in the nursery of their decent, Midwestern, Bible-believing church -.
Anderson gives practical advice on:
how to detect sexual abuse.
how to counsel young victims and their families.
how to find help from the right authorities.
When to involve outside counselors and therapists.
when and how to offer help to sexual "perpetrators."
how to manage media-relations.
relating to the courts and other secular authorities.
