Saturday Sheepdog, 7/11/26 Jeff Dalrymple – Sexual Abuse in the Church

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Carl Chinn

Carl Chinn

Jul 6, 2026

This weekend, 7/11/26 (and next weekend, 7/18/26) will be open to non-FBSN-members. We want you to share these two meeting with your peers, as this is the type of presentation SOS attendees will experience in Louisville, KY this year. 7/11/26 Zoom meeting details are shown below, then for 7/18/26 we will send out details on that meeting where an SOS.26 presenter will be speaking about mental health issues in the church.

You will get (or have already got) an e-mail about this event as well. Please forward that email to any friends or associates you may know who might be interested in this topic or attending SOS.26.

There is nothing like the crime of sexual abuse of a child. It raises the hair on the back of our neck and touches off a firestorm of protective emotions.

When sexual abuse of a child happens in a church, it can be catastrophic. It has, and often should, result in a church’s failure. If that church knew something was happening and did nothing about it, there isn’t a good reason the leadership should be trusted. It is that serious.

Jeff Dalrymple has been fighting in that space for many years. He is the Director of Abuse Prevention & Response on the Southern Baptist Convention’s, Executive Committee. He formerly served as executive director of the Evangelical Council for Abuse Prevention; a national association of Christian ministries committed to child and youth protection.

In the early days of church security, there was a lot of misinformation on sexual abuse of children. Many thought of it as a Catholic issue (because their cases were the first to become news stories) or that the biggest risk was pedophiles in the congregation.

Neither of those are accurate. Every denomination has experienced it; many never reported it. And the offenders are often in leadership roles in the church.

The prevailing culture for American churches is to gather around the offender for a redemption story, keep it internal and brush off the victim. That is NOT the scenario Jesus taught of the shepherd leaving 99 sheep to find the 1 lost. The church often ignores the victim to reconcile the offender.

This coming Saturday, 7/11/26, Jeff Dalrymple will be giving us a peek into this vile topic. He will be teaching two related topics on this problem. Those two courses are,

Safeguarding Children & Preventing Abuse in Ministry Settings
Responding to Abuse in Ministry – Crisis Response When Allegations Arise

To read up more on Jeff and his presentation descriptions, go to https://www.fbsnamerica.com/events/security-operations-summit-2026/speakers/2762

Click on this URL to attend the Sheepdog Saturday Zoom call at 09:00 AM CENTRAL TIME; https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82535003301

We hope you can make it Saturday at;

06:00 – 07:00 (ALASKA TIME)

07:00 – 08:00 AM (PACIFIC TIME)

08:00 – 09:00 AM (MOUNTAIN TIME)

09:00 – 10:00 AM (CENTRAL TIME)

10:00 – 11:00 AM (EASTERN TIME)

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