Safe Sanctuaries and Sexual Ethics Required Training
A NEW AND DIFFERENT EVENT FOR THE TENNESSEE CONFERENCE
Sponsored by the Conference Committee on Sexual Ethics
SAFE SANCTUARIES AND SEXUAL ETHICS
September 8 & 9, 2005
9:00 am – 4:00 pm
Brentwood United Methodist Church
(New building – bottom floor – youth area)
This is an opportunity for all clergy and interested laypersons in the Tennessee Conference to gain new insights into personal and professional sexual ethics and how to help congregations provide safe and nurturing ministries for children and youth.
The leaders will be the Rev. Joy Melton, a Christian educator and a lawyer and Dr. Patti van Eys, a clinical psychologist.
Joy’s practice is focused on issues facing churches as well as children and families. An ordained deacon in the North Georgia Conference, she has written the Safe Sanctuaries materials.
Patti is Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychology at Vanderbilt University and Clinical Director of the Center of Excellence for Children in State Custody. Her expertise is in the treatment of children who have been maltreated.
Together, they bring to this training a wealth of practical and personal experience in dealing with issues confronting clergy and lay people in churches today.
Bishop Dick Wills writes, “I am delighted our Conference is having this important training. It is my expectation every pastor in the Conference will take this opportunity to make our churches safer for people of all ages. We live in a time when our own training and awareness as pastors is vital if our churches are to be safe places and our own lives are to reflect the very character of Jesus.
Every pastor in the Conference is to have completed this training within the next 2 years. It is important each pastor take this mandatory training as soon as possible.”
To register, send a check for $40. made payable to the TN Conf BOM to
Rev. Susan Padgett
1808 West End Avenue, Suite 501
Nashville, TN 37203-2581
Space is limited to 200 people.
This is a two-day event!
Sponsored by the Conference Committee on Sexual Ethics
SAFE SANCTUARIES AND SEXUAL ETHICS
September 8 & 9, 2005
9:00 am – 4:00 pm
Brentwood United Methodist Church
(New building – bottom floor – youth area)
This is an opportunity for all clergy and interested laypersons in the Tennessee Conference to gain new insights into personal and professional sexual ethics and how to help congregations provide safe and nurturing ministries for children and youth.
The leaders will be the Rev. Joy Melton, a Christian educator and a lawyer and Dr. Patti van Eys, a clinical psychologist.
Joy’s practice is focused on issues facing churches as well as children and families. An ordained deacon in the North Georgia Conference, she has written the Safe Sanctuaries materials.
Patti is Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychology at Vanderbilt University and Clinical Director of the Center of Excellence for Children in State Custody. Her expertise is in the treatment of children who have been maltreated.
Together, they bring to this training a wealth of practical and personal experience in dealing with issues confronting clergy and lay people in churches today.
Bishop Dick Wills writes, “I am delighted our Conference is having this important training. It is my expectation every pastor in the Conference will take this opportunity to make our churches safer for people of all ages. We live in a time when our own training and awareness as pastors is vital if our churches are to be safe places and our own lives are to reflect the very character of Jesus.
Every pastor in the Conference is to have completed this training within the next 2 years. It is important each pastor take this mandatory training as soon as possible.”
To register, send a check for $40. made payable to the TN Conf BOM to
Rev. Susan Padgett
1808 West End Avenue, Suite 501
Nashville, TN 37203-2581
Space is limited to 200 people.
This is a two-day event!
