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After receiving  a disclosure of sexual abuse  

A Guide for Pastors - protocols and Pastoral Care.

Maintaining The  Fellowship of believers

 "forsake not the gathering.."

  "we are all one in Christ"

"bear one another's burdens.

 

    lets listen to one another's stories  

 let's understand eachother by corecting false concepts and idears.

 

eg  survivors are  very likely to be hyper vigilant

      hurt people do not always hurt people

    

    it is sadly said that churches are the only organisation who shoot's it's wounded

 

this is not what Jesus Christ taught.

   eg the Good samaritan

        the shepherd who searched for the one lost sheep and rescued his sheep

 

    lets reach out to survivors and  encourage vicariously traumatised  members.

 

    How many survivirs are silent, hiding in their caves as I did for decades?