A few Sundays ago, I was the guest teacher at a KidMin near my house. They had recently started using GO! curriculum and wanted to see what it looked like when the "pro" did it. I brought my A-game. Or so I thought. There was one kid who seemed to be less than impressed. It was my 3rd grade son. After the service was over, he looked weepy. And when I asked him what was wrong, he went from weepy to full on chest-heaving, snot-faced, uncontrollable sobbing. Was I that bad?

Recently, news began to spread that Ruben Meulenberg, a well known leader within the KidMin community, was arrested on charges of lewd and lascivious acts on a child while volunteering as a youth mentor at Saddleback Church in CA. To be clear, Ruben hasn't been tried or found guilty, but the mere accusation is enough to make every KidMin leader pause and think about what they're doing to keep the kids (and leaders) in their ministry safe. Repeat this with me: “There is nothin