Legal
Last updated: March 2026. To report a safeguarding concern, contact us immediately at contact@tsp.church.
The Sonship Place (T.S.P) Church is committed to the protection and wellbeing of every person who engages with our church family, with particular care for children, young people, and those in vulnerable circumstances. This policy applies to all who serve within T.S.P, including pastors, facilitators, volunteers, and staff.
Safeguarding is not an addition to our pastoral ministry. It is integral to it. The gospel we preach creates a community of trust; that trust must be protected.
If you believe a child is in immediate danger, call emergency services (911 in the US, 112 in Nigeria, or your local emergency number) before contacting us.
Where a child’s parents or guardians hold shared or split custody, written consent from both custodial adults is required before the child may participate in T.S.P church activities. This applies to in-person gatherings, formation cohorts, and any hosted events involving minors.
At check-in, a child may only be collected by an adult who is named on the child’s registration form. If a person not listed on the registration form requests to collect a child, the child remains with the serving team until the registered adult arrives and confirms the arrangement in writing.
Where a custody dispute arises at check-in, the child remains under the care of the serving team until the matter is resolved between the parties. T.S.P does not mediate custody disputes. Where a court order or legal custody documentation is presented to a serving team member, T.S.P will cooperate fully with the terms of that documentation and retain a copy for its records.
T.S.P takes all disclosures of crisis, self-harm, suicidal ideation, and abuse with the highest level of seriousness. Our digital platforms include active crisis detection that routes disclosures to appropriate care pathways.
When a crisis disclosure is received, we follow three possible pathways based on the nature and urgency of the disclosure:
Confidentiality applies to all pastoral care interactions, subject to mandatory reporting obligations. Where a disclosure involves a risk to the life of the person disclosing or another person, T.S.P reserves the right and accepts the duty to involve statutory authorities.
No crisis response is automated. Our technology may detect keywords and route disclosures, but all pastoral responses are generated and sent by a human pastor or trained pastoral care team member.
Level 2B (Authentic Living) of the Believers’ Sonship Training pathway is a trauma-informed formation course. It creates structured opportunity for honest engagement with places where identity truth has not yet become lived experience. It is not clinical therapy.
The following safeguards govern L2B:
L2B is not recommended for persons who are currently in acute crisis, engaged in active substance dependency treatment, or who have unmanaged dissociative presentations without clinical support. These are stated clearly in the enrollment consent flow.
T.S.P pastoral care team members operate within defined relational boundaries:
Any report of a boundary violation by a T.S.P team member will be taken seriously, investigated with appropriate confidentiality, and responded to within the relevant legal framework.
This policy is designed to comply with safeguarding obligations in both the United States (federal and state child protection law, COPPA) and Nigeria (Child Rights Act, NDPR, and applicable state-level child protection statutes). Where requirements differ between jurisdictions, we apply the higher standard.
To report a safeguarding concern, abuse, or boundary violation involving T.S.P leadership, volunteers, or platforms, use the button below or contact us at contact@tsp.church.
Reports will be handled with confidentiality, appropriate pastoral care, and where required by law, referred to statutory authorities.
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