The Safe Church Pledge is a practical pledge that churches and ministries can make to create safe environments and avoid the most common transparency, accountability, and protection pitfalls found in public ministry scandals.

By making the pledge, churches show their commitment to creating safe environments for the public and their parishioners. Pledged organizations also demonstrate their commitment to allow accountability to these standards by congregants and SAI. All of which increase public trust and proactively address common issues found in ministry scandals.

When a church or ministry takes the safe church pledge, everyone wins. The church builds trust with parishioners and is included on SAI’s list of pledged churches for people looking for safe churches in your area. Parishioners feel more confident in their church leadership and know where to go if they have questions or concerns. People looking for safe churches in their community have a list of churches they can confidently visit. And because churches that make the pledge are significantly less likely to face public scandal, public trust in the Church increases.

Best of all, making the pledge helps your church and its leaders operate above reproach and live out the biblical standard set for us in 1 Timothy 3:2 and Titus 1:6-7.

While the Safe Church pledge doesn't mean a ministry can't face scandal or cause spiritual abuse, it is a practical set of commitments designed to make abuse hard to hide and to limit its impact and occurrence as much as possible.