Group Publishing, The Missing Ministry: Safety, Risk Management and Protecting Your Church. Group Publishing, 2008.
Referenced in: Tax, Legal, and Risk-Management Issues
LifeandLeadership.com Summary
This is a comprehensive manual on risk management produced by Group Publishing in cooperation with Guide One Insurance, which is one of America’s largest insurers of churches (45,000-plus). Their extensive website contains many resources on church security, including a free resource packet to supplement the book, and guides to emergency preparedness, facility safety, financial safeguards, employee and volunteer safety, children and youth safety, and transportation safeguards. It is arguably the most current and complete collection on church security issues. It is in the same genre as Cirtin, Church Safety and Security and Aguiar, Keeping Your Church Safe, each featured on the section on Tax, Legal, and Risk-Management Issues. Each volume conveys similar content. Readers could peruse all three to determine which is best for them.
From the Publisher
Prevent potential tragedies at your church. Each year, hundreds of churches experience devastating accidents…injuries…crimes…even child sexual abuse. And more than half of those tragedies could have been prevented or minimized—if proper precautions had been taken.
Experts at the GuideOne Center for Risk Management lay out a clear, simple, doable strategy for safeguarding a church’s people, property, and ministries. This preparation is a ministry that’s often missing in churches—and desperately needed. Regardless, of the size of your church you will find practical insights into how to minimize risk in your ministry.
You will discover how to…
- Form a Church Safety and Security Team that’s effective
- Identify your church’s greatest risks and minimize them now
- Prepare for emergencies before they occur
- Keep your facilities safe and secure
- Create financial safeguards that act as an early-alert system
- Assure employee and volunteer safety in a dangerous world
- Safeguard children, youth, seniors—everyone in their ministry
- Organize transportation safety the easy way
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