Opting into the NRS provides the Church with another avenue to support survivors as they seek justice and healing.
Tag: child sexual abuse
Adsafe has been working closely with the National Redress Scheme Taskforce towards the Church and all its relevant entities joining the scheme.
"Know When to Say No" is the theme for AdSafe's campaign for National Child Protection Week 2019.
"Such instances of abuse are intolerable and inexcusable, and to those survivors of such abuse we are sorry."
"[The Church is] a very redemptive community who lacks compassion." Pastor Glenn Townend reflects on this confronting thought.
The scheme was set up in response to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse as a way of acknowledging and supporting survivors.
A statement from South Pacific Division president Pastor Glenn Townend and Seventh-day Adventist Church in Australia president Pastor Jorge Munoz following yesterday’s National Apology to Victims and Survivors of Institutional Child Sexual Abuse.
"Our children and vulnerable people, more than ever, need our Church community to surround and support them."