Abuse survivors and their advocates plan to rally outside a national meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention in Birmingham, Alabama, as Americas largest Protestant denomination wrestles this week with how to address clerical sexual abuse and cover-ups of the abuse within its ranks.

Current and former Southern Baptists, as well as survivors and advocates from other denominations, will be gathering at the For Such a Time as This rally just outside the Birmingham-Jefferson Convention Center on Tuesday evening. The protesters are demanding concrete change including the creation of a clergy sex offender database for the SBCs network of 47,000 churches and mandatory sex-abuse prevention training for all SBC pastors, staff and volunteers. They are also asking that the denomination, which approves only of male pastors, make a commitment to respect women.