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3 Launch

Launch the Caring Well Challenge

Your entire congregation needs to know your church is taking the Caring Well Challenge. Select a Sunday that works for your church’s calendar to launch the challenge.

The third step is to set aside time during your Sunday services to do four things:

  1. Acknowledge the need for churches to grow in their awareness about, prevention of, and response to incidents of abuse. For survivors in your church, this may be the first time they’ve heard people in leadership acknowledge the need to grow in an area that has so radically impacted their life.
  2. Explain the Caring Well Challenge so that your church knows what you will be doing over the next year.
  3. Introduce your Caring Well team so that your church knows who will be leading the effort over the next year.
  4. Pray for (a) those who are processing their own experience of abuse, (b) your church’s Caring Well team, commissioning them, and (c) for the church at large to grow in this area.

Resources on this step will be sent to every church that signs up and are available below to help you conduct this portion of your service with clarity, compassion, and excellence.

Video Announcement with J.D. Greear

Sharing the Caring Well Challenge with Your Church (PDF)

Bulletin Inserts (ZIP)

Prayer of Lament (PDF)

Preparing for Disclosure (PDF)

 

It is overdue for churches across our country to acknowledge and address the crisis of abuse. May launch Sunday be a significant day of healing and the launching point for many needed efforts.

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