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Children's Protection Policies

We at Cedar Crest BFC are very concerned for your childs safety and wellbeing, as well as your peace of mind. To that end we have enacted a number of policies designed to protect all the children and families on our property.

Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Guidelines

Our policy manual begins with the following introduction:

Child sexual abuse is a subject not many want to talk about, dwell on, or believe can happen to them or their church.  Child sexual abuse, however, does occur and is happening in ever increasing numbers in homes and churches across the United States.  There are some statistics that show that as many as one in every four girls and one in every six boys will be sexually abused before they reach the age of eighteen.

Because of the seriousness of this subject, Cedar Crest Bible Fellowship Church (CCBFC) desires to make its places of ministry safe for all children, youth and church workers.  By being proactive and taking precautionary measures that screen and train workers with children and youth, and providing guidelines and procedures that offer assistance to parents and church workers, CCBFC can hopefully prevent such atrocities from ever occurring in our church community.

We encourage everyone in the church to be informed about child sexual abuse.  Therefore, everyone who participates in the membership class will receive an overview of these guidelines.  If these participants feel they could volunteer in the future to work with children or youth at Cedar Crest Bible Fellowship Church, they will be given the opportunity to fill out an Children/Youth Worker Application Form as a way of making members and attendees of CCBFC safely available for service to our children and youth on an occasional basis (e.g. helping in a Sunday School Class as an Aide).  Anyone who is going to be a worker with our children or youth over an extended period of time will be required to fill out a Children/Youth Worker Application Form, consent to a background check and references being contacted, as well as participate in a training session about our child sexual abuse prevention guidelines.

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If you have any questions or concerns, or if you need submit anyo f the applications to work with children, please contact Jonathan King. If you believe someone has violated any of our policies please contact Jonathan King at the Church Office immediately.

Contact Person: Jonathan King