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Oversight of SBC’s Ministry Check website may be divided among firms ‘which share our values’

  • April 4, 2023
  • Jennifer Davis Rash
  • Latest News, Sexual Abuse Task Force report, Southern Baptist Convention

Oversight of SBC’s Ministry Check website may be divided among firms ‘which share our values’

Leaders of the Abuse Reform Implementation Task Force announced a strategic turn in their efforts today (April 4) related to the plan to establish and maintain a Ministry Check website. They are no longer focused on partnering with one firm to do all the work.

“In the spirit of unity and cooperation, the ARITF met in Atlanta on Monday, March 27, and voted to consider alternative pathways (dividing the work among smaller firms which share our values)” for overseeing the website, according to a statement from ARITF leaders.

Read the full statement here and read the background to this current news update here, here and here.

ARITF evaluating additional firms

“The ARITF is presently sourcing and evaluating additional firms to assist with the Ministry Check process who meet our qualifications for the highest professional standards,” task force leaders explain in the statement.

“The Ministry Check website is a vital tool in combating abuse. The ARITF possesses an unwavering commitment to the SBC messengers’ mandate to establish a reliable and trustworthy Ministry Check website and to advance true and effective abuse reform across our Convention.”

An archive of previous coverage of the task force and its work can be found here.

 

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