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How to: Run Member Awareness training as a group

Run the short Member Awareness course with your whole church at an AGM, training night or leadership gathering.

Summary: The Member Awareness course is a short training course (around 15 minutes) that helps your whole church understand what safe ministry is, why it matters, what to look out for, and how to raise a concern. Every Safe Ministry Check administrator can run it as a group session, then optionally record who attended.

Good times to run it

  • AGMs

  • Church-wide training nights

  • Leadership gatherings

  • Any time you want to bring safe ministry back into focus

Step 1: Find the course

  1. Log in to your Training Portal.

  2. Scroll to the bottom of the page to the section titled Other Actions.

  3. Here you can start the Member Awareness group training and download a printable discussion booklet.

Tip: The discussion booklet is optional, but many churches find it gives people space to take notes and engage with the discussion prompts.

Step 2: Run the session

  1. Connect your device to a projector or screen.

  2. Start the Member Awareness training from the Training Portal.

  3. Play through the videos as a group.

  4. When a discussion prompt appears, pause the video and discuss together before continuing.

The session runs for around 15 minutes, depending on the length of your discussions, so it fits easily into an existing meeting or event.

Step 3: Record attendance (optional)

To record who completed the training in Safe Ministry Check, keep a simple list of who attended, then after the session:

  1. Log in to your Admin Portal.

  2. Go to Trainees > Trainee List and open each person's profile.

  3. Make sure their trainee type is set to Member.

  4. Scroll to Course Progress and select Update.

  5. Choose Group Safe Ministry Check training as the training method.

  6. Enter the date the training was completed.

  7. Add any relevant notes, such as who ran the training and where.

  8. Select Submit. The page refreshes and the training is added to their history.

Why this matters

Member Awareness isn't about ticking boxes. It helps shift the mindset from "safe ministry is the admin team's job" to "safe ministry is something we're all responsible for", so people feel empowered to speak up and care for one another well.

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