Course curriculum

  • 1
    Finding Balance While Leading a Church Security Ministry
    • **Download and PRINT** HANDOUT Leading a Church Church Safety/Security Program
    • Finding Balance
    • Creating a Successful Team and Plan
    • Instructor Overview and Background
  • 2
    Getting Focused
    • Focused Concerns & Observations
    • Focusing On Your People as Resources
    • Focusing On Components of Preparation
    • Focusing on the Team Approach
    • Focused Responsibilities
  • 3
    Overview
    • Important Content Overview
    • Materials Overview and PreTest
    • PRE TEST Answers
  • 4
    Important Church Security Related Statistics
    • Violence Trends and Statistics
    • Sex Offender Statistics for Children's Safety
  • 5
    Likely Issues and Preparing in Advance
    • Likely Issues at Your House of Worship
    • Examples of Who Prepares In Advance for Problems
    • SIDE NOTE: Money Handling
  • 6
    Church Violence Discussion
    • Church Violence
  • 7
    Behavior Awareness
    • Warning Signs of Escalating Behavior
    • SIDE NOTE: Recruiting Security Members
  • 8
    Evaluating ODD, SUSPICIOUS and DANGEROUS
    • Evaluating The Situation
  • 9
    Issue Focus for Leaders of Church Security
    • Practical Situations Discussions
    • Can We Search Backpacks?
    • SIDE NOTE: Do We Need Security Shirts?
    • SIDE NOTE: Suspicious Box
    • SIDE NOTE: Suspicious Male
  • 10
    Difficult People and Situations
    • Dealing With Difficult People PART 1
    • Dealing with Difficult People PART 2
    • Dealing with Difficult People PART 3
    • SIDE NOTE: Do We Need Guns? PART 1
    • SIDE NOTE: If We Need Guns PART 2
  • 11
    Discussing Emergencies for Leaders
    • Planning for Emergencies
    • Medical Emergencies
    • Fires
    • Extreme Weather and Earthquakes
    • Lock Down Discussion
  • 12
    Suspicious and Disorderly People
    • Suspicious and Disorderly People
    • Disorderly People and Service Interruptions
    • SIDE NOTE: Security Doesn't Have To Be Bad
  • 13
    **FORMS** Church Security Program Forms for Leadership
    • Ministry Staff Training Completion Form (Download, Print and Use)
    • Incident Report Form (Download, Print and Use)
    • Usher Briefing Training Sheets (Download, Print and Use)
    • FIREARMS Practice Documentation form
  • 14
    Domestic Violence and Protecting the Children
    • Domestic Violence and Restraining Orders
    • Protecting the Children
    • Background Checks
    • SIDE NOTE: Methods of a Predator
  • 15
    Violence Issues and Preparing Code Words for Teams
    • Threats of Violence
    • Code Words
    • Bombs and Bomb Threats
    • Evacuations
  • 16
    Outside Issues Are Most Likely Problems
    • Church Parking Lots and Other Outside Areas
  • 17
    Communicating with Others In Your Community
    • Communicating with other Churches
    • Communicate with Law Enforcement
    • SIDE NOTE: Incident Command System and Church Security
  • 18
    Active Listening BONUS MATERIAL
    • Active Listening - Section 1
    • Active Listening - Section 2
  • 19
    Calling 911
    • Calling 911
  • 20
    Reading Body Language BONUS MATERIAL
    • Reading Body Language - Sec. 1
    • Reading Body Language - Sec. 2
  • 21
    Violent Intruder Situations
    • The Violent Intruder
    • When Law Enforcement Arrives
    • SIDE NOTE: The Threats and The OODA LOOP
  • 22
    Closing Discussion
    • Closing Discussion: Pre-planning is What Makes Us Successful