safe sanctuaries

Safe Sanctuaries is the name commonly given by United Methodist Annual Conferences and local churches to their individual efforts to make conference, district, and local church programs welcoming and safe for children and youth. At Munsey, we seek to do this by having at least two qualified, non-related adults on hand at all of our children and youth activities, by observing good adult-child ratios, by having adults accompany their children to and from children’s activities, and by offering Safe Sanctuaries training and requiring background verification from all of our staff and volunteers.

  

Because we are a public facility, we do ask that adults accompany children at all times in our building. Parents are asked to sign their children in on both our nursery and elementary floors on Sunday Mornings.  

 

As part of our Safe Sanctuary effort, we also keep the parking lot doors to the Preschool wing locked and ask that our church family use the Sanctuary entrance to enter the building when parking on the Market Street side.
 

Greeters and Munsey staff are available to be extra helping hands in keeping our hallways secure. A police officer is also on duty during Sunday morning and Wednesday evening programs.