by Sharon Mager | Oct 3, 2025 | sexual abuse prevention
Churches Taking Strides to Protect Children & Vulnerable Adults By Sharon Mager & Kris Buckman CROWNSVILLE, Md. — Protecting children and vulnerable individuals is a top priority for churches in Maryland and Delaware, and Baptist Convention of...
by Sharon Mager | Jun 9, 2025 | disability ministry, sexual abuse prevention
By Tom Stolle Sexual assault is an epidemic in America. Per The Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN), every 68 seconds an American is sexually assaulted, and every 9 minutes, that victim is a child. That should get your attention! It’s horrifying. It’s...
by Sharon Mager | Apr 7, 2025 | missional impact
The Least of These: Introducing the BCM/D Missional Impact Team By: Mark Dooley “Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me” (Matthew 25:40, KJV). That was the text of the very first sermon I preached. I was a...
by Sharon Mager | Jun 13, 2024 | Featured, sexual abuse prevention
INDIANAPOLIS (BP) – The Abuse Reform Implementation Task Force (ARITF) has launched the curriculum it hopes churches will use to train volunteers in preventing sexual abuse and responding to those who have experienced it. ARITF members Jon Nelson, lead pastor of Soma...
by Sharon Mager | Jun 13, 2024 | Featured, sexual abuse prevention, Stollen Moments
By Tom Stolle In my role as executive director, I have the honor of working with some of the finest leaders that I’ve ever known. Allow me to invite you on a journey with me as I lift up one of those leaders: my friend, Kris Buckman. In 2020, after June Holland, a...
