Sexual Abuse Prevention: A Course of Study for Teenagers

by Rebecca M.M. Voelkel, Marie M. Fortune

This revised and updated edition addresses the ex-periences of date rape, stranger rape, and incest-ous abuse. Each carefully designed to faciliate an honest, respectful, Christian response tothe sexual abuse of young people.

56 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 1996

About the author

Rev. Dr. Rebecca Mary MacKenzie Voelkel is a United Church of Christ pastor and Director of the Center for Sustainable Justice. Rebecca’s ministry has taken on several forms. She has worked in specialized ministry, chaplaincy and in the parish. Prior to ordination, she worked with the Center for the Prevention of Sexual and Domestic Violence (now the FaithTrust Institute) and with the Seattle Mental Health Chaplaincy. Ordained as a pastor in 1997, Rebecca served as solo and then co-pastor at Spirit of the Lakes UCC in Minneapolis, the first predominantly LGBTQ congregation in a mainline denomination. She then became Interim National Coordinator for the UCC Coalition for LGBT Concerns from 2003 to 2005 where she had the honor to both celebrate the work of Ann B. Day and Donna Enberg in the marking of the 500th Open and Affirming congregation in the UCC and work with many colleagues to help pass a Marriage Equality resolution at the UCC’s General Synod in Atlanta in 2005. Since August of 2005, Rebecca has served as the Institute for Welcoming Resources and Faith Work Director for the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force.