About MinistrySafe
We are civil trial attorneys with more than 60 years combined experience addressing child sexual abuse issues.
GREGORY LOVE, JD
CO-FOUNDER & DIRECTOR
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.
KIMBERLEE NORRIS, JD
CO-FOUNDER & DIRECTOR
Kimberlee D. Norris is a sexual abuse trial attorney: representing victims of abuse, serving as a consulting expert in abuse cases, and providing crisis management and allegation response counsel to ministries of all sizes. An acknowledged authority in legal standards of care, Norris has trained over three million ministry staff members and volunteers since 2005. With her law partner Gregory Love, she serves as Co-founder and Director of MinistrySafe and MinistrySafe Institute, which grew out of their desire to place proactive tools and training into the hands of churches and ministries nationwide and across the globe.
After decades of litigating sexual abuse cases and providing legal counsel to ministries, Love and Norris partnered with Dallas Theological Seminary to create the first seminary course in existence limited to child sexual abuse risk and prevention in ministry contexts.
Norris frequently addresses national and regional audiences for organizations such as the Christian Camp and Conference Association (CCCA), American Camp Association (ACA), National Association of Church Business Administration (NACBA), Baptist state conventions and hundreds of churches, private schools and camps. Representative consultation clients include the United States Olympic Committee, Awana International, Church of the Nazarene, U. S. Center for SafeSport, First Baptist New Orleans, Austin Stone Community Church, Prestonwood Baptist Church (Dallas) and Perimeter Church (Atlanta).
In partnership with the Christian Camp and Conference Association, Norris provides the backbone of CCCA’s CamperProtect initiative. She has partnered with the following seminaries to provide coursework related to child abuse prevention: Dallas Theological Seminary, Reformed Theological Seminary, Denver Seminary, Covenant Theological Seminary, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and Gateway Seminary.
GEORGIA MCKNIGHT, JD
Georgia McKnight is an attorney in the Fort Worth, Texas law firm of Love & Norris, serving as an Associate Director of MinistrySafe and Abuse Prevention Systems.
McKnight worked as a legal advocate at the Duke Law School Children’s Clinic, where she provided representation to underserved children in North Carolina public schools.
As Research Director, she provides comprehensive analysis of state and federal law governing child-serving entities. Her most recent publication, Children Should Win: The FCRA Amendment Necessary to Facilitate Child Protection, supports legislative change at the federal level, thereby facilitating transparency in criminal records accessible to child-serving organizations.
Through the law firm, McKnight provides legal consultation and risk management resources. She leads the law firm’s Assessment Team, providing third party assessment of current practices and legal standards of care.
As well, she collaborates with the writing team responsible for the Stop Sexual Abuse Series, published by Church Executive Magazine.
McKnight earned a Bachelor’s Degree in English and Philosophy (Summa Cum Laude) from Texas A&M University (2019), followed by a Juris Doctor from Duke University School of Law. She is a member of the Texas State Bar and the Tarrant County Bar Association.
DAVID CHASE, MBA
David Chase is the Director of Operations at MinistrySafe, where he leads the organization’s day-to-day operations with a focus on operational efficiency and strategic growth. Before joining MinistrySafe, David utilized his skillset at BetterMan, a Dallas-based nonprofit, leveraging technology to teach biblical manhood. He also served as Executive Pastor at Lake Church in Arlington, where he and his family are active members.
David's diverse professional background spans over a decade in the energy and agriculture sectors with a Dallas-based conglomerate and eight years in K-12 education and educational technology. In addition to his industry roles, he has dedicated the last eight years to academia, serving as adjunct faculty in the Colleges of Business and General Education at Dallas Baptist University, his alma mater, where he has taught courses on Organizational Behavior, Management, and Developing the Christian Mind.
David holds a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Business Administration degree. He and his wife have been married for over 20 years and are proud parents of two children—one currently in high school and the other attending college.
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