About this webinar

Most child-serving ministries know child sexual abuse is a real threat, but the greatest challenge is recognizing the risk before harm occurs. Unfortunately, you can’t spot an abuser by appearance, only by behavior. Understanding the abuser’s grooming process and common grooming behaviors is one of the most important steps ministry leaders can take to protect children and those who serve them.

In this session, the founders of MinistrySafe explain how offenders manipulate children and the adults around them to gain trust, access, privacy and control. You’ll see how grooming behaviors manifest in real ministry settings and why recognizing these behaviors early gives your team confidence to establish meaningful barriers and respond appropriately to boundary violations.

In this webinar, we’ll discuss:

• Abuser characteristics and common grooming behaviors
• How grooming behaviors typically manifest in ministry programs
• How to identify and address problematic behaviors early on

Join us to strengthen your ability to recognize risk before sexual abuse occurs and take the next step toward a safer ministry.

About MinistrySafe

MinistrySafe was founded by legal professionals and sexual abuse experts, Gregory Love and Kimberlee Norris. Through their litigation practice representing victims of child sexual abuse, they recognized a vital need to equip churches and ministry programs to better protect children from sexual abuse. The risk is real, and it’s preventable. Prevention starts with awareness.

About Gregory Love

Gregory S. Love, managing partner of the Fort Worth, Texas law firm of Love & Norris, is the Co-founder of MinistrySafe, MinistrySafe Institute and Abuse Prevention Systems.

His clients include denominations, camps, universities, private schools, public and private charities, and youth sports groups.

An expert in legal standards of care related to child sexual abuse, he has consulted with organizations such as the United States Olympic Committee, U.S. Center for Safe Sport, Awana International, Trail Life USA, U.S. Youth Soccer, North American Mission Board, and numerous faith-based organizations and denominations.

Love provides instruction and continuing education to risk management professionals, and performs internal evaluation of standard of care issues related to child sexual abuse.

Love earned a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Texas Tech University in 1987, followed by a Juris Doctor from Texas Tech School of Law. He is a member of the Texas State Bar and a fellow of the Tarrant County Bar Foundation.

Love has served as guest lecturer at Texas Wesleyan School of Law (now Texas A&M School of Law), Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and Liberty School of Divinity. He currently serves as Visiting Faculty at Dallas Theological Seminary, teaching the only existing seminary-level course limited to sexual abuse risk: Preventing Sexual Abuse in Ministry Contexts.

With his law partner Kimberlee Norris, Love writes for numerous publications addressing child sexual abuse risk, impact, prevention and legislation.