The Safe Church Helpline is available to all staff, volunteers and attendees of churches and other ministries related to C3 Churches throughout Australia. If you have any questions or concerns related to a matter of safety we recommend in the first instance that you speak with a leader or pastor at our church. However if you'd prefer, you're very welcome to contact the Helpline directly.

VOLUNTEERING AT BELIEVE CHURCH

Believe Church has a culture of serving and everyone who calls our church home, is encouraged to serve together as the body of Christ. We know that God created every person for a specific purpose and at our church we can help you find a team or a ministry that allows you to exercise your gifts and talents for His Kingdom.

As a commitment to being a Safe Church, we ask all our volunteers to complete a few steps that are needed to approve you as a Safe Church Volunteer. These steps are outlined in our Volunteer Onboarding Checklist which you can view by clicking on the button below. Please talk with a team leader, or one of our church staff who can help you as you begin this exciting journey with us.

At C3 we're committed to creating safe environments.

C3 Australia partners with Safe Ministry Resources to enable the provision of safe and secure environments for all people who are are involved with our church and all its related ministries and activities.

We aim to stay up to date with current best practice and legislative requirements through a multi-faceted approach including...

1. A focus on good governance practices through...

   • regularly reviewed policies;

   • codes of conduct for all personnel throughout the organisation;

   • adequate and appropriate insurances;

   • clear reporting, investigation and feedback processes;

   • ongoing training for all board members and staff;

   • a designated Safety Management team.

2. A focus on protection for children and vulnerable people through...

   • onboarding and ongoing safety training for all volunteers across the organisation;

   • onboarding and ongoing training for all people serving in leadership roles;

   • ongoing, role appropriate training for pastors, staff and board members;

   • appropriate screening procedures for all those working directly with minors;

   • ongoing training for all people working directly with minors.

3. A focus on safe spiritual and emotional environments through...

   • servant leadership;

   • not engaging in spiritually and emotionally abusive practices;

   • abiding by National Privacy Act principles;

   • treating all people respectfully, regardless of age, gender, disability, ethnicity, socio-economic background, religion or sexual orientation.

4. A focus on safe physical environments through...

   • appropriate risk management policies and actions;

   • abiding by workplace healthy and safety guidelines;

   • seeking to provide physical environments including but not limited to, first aid, transportation, food safety, supervision numbers, management of higher risk activities, fire and emergency.Everytthing