🚨 If your church doesn’t have a clear, repeatable safety plan… you don’t have “security.” You have hope.
I’m a Christian, Army veteran, and husband of 40 years. I’m also a dad to two daughters and a proud pappy to six grandkids. I help lead our church security team and that’s exactly why I can’t stay quiet about what I keep seeing:
Good people volunteering to protect God’s house…
but no written plan, no defined roles, and too much pressure on one person to “figure it out” when seconds matter.
Here’s the part that should wake every church leader up:
- 2024: the FBI documented 24 active shooter incidents, and “houses of worship” is specifically listed as a location category.
- 2023: the FBI documented 48 active shooter incidents with 244 total casualties (105 killed).
- 2023: 2,699 hate-crime incidents were reported as religion-based.
- A major open-source tracking report documented 485 hostile incidents against churches in 2023 and 415 in 2024 (still dramatically higher than prior years).
✅ This is why I created Global Church Security Academy.
Not to replace your team to strengthen it with a simple, repeatable, Sunday-ready system that reduces risk and removes guesswork.
Inside you get:
- A Sunday-ready safety system (briefing, roles, coverage, response flow)
- Done-for-you templates (SOPs, role cards, incident reports, AARs)
- Scenario-based training packs you can run with your team
- A growing church-specific training library
- Weekly live training + Q&A + real-world problem solving
- Guest speakers + experienced professionals focused on church environments
⚠️ Please don’t scroll past this.
The worst time to get prepared is after something happens.
If you’re responsible for safety at a church (or know someone who is), comment “PLAN” and I’ll reply with the details.
Or go straight here: