church safety
& security
Understanding that your church ultimately relies on God's protection in all things, it is my mission to train the Security/Safety Team to eliminate, as much as humanly possible, the occurrence or risk of injury, danger, or loss to your congregation, visitors, and facility.
Church and ministry security is much more than having armed personnel on hand that could possibly shoot back at an armed intruder. Church Security involves think about, planning for and training to eliminate or minimize threats, emergencies, disasters, and safety hazards.
I developed two acronyms to help churches and ministries focus on identifying potential issues and then deliberately plan to reduce the impact or eliminate potential hazardous events – those acronyms are TEDS and CAPP.
TEDS (Threat, Emergency, Disaster, Safety) is an acronym that was developed to help churches and ministries look at how to protect their members and guests. TEDS is the recognition phase of a total church/ministry evaluation – it is a survey conducted to point out probable or possible areas where measure should be taken to reduce or eliminate the potential for negative outcomes.
Threat – is anything from an armed intruder to domestic spillover.
Emergencies – Fire, medial or even utility interruption
Disasters – Flooding, tornadoes, hurricane or man-made events
Safety – these range from elimination of choking hazards in children’s areas to tripping hazards to food safety.
CAPP (Care and Protection Program) is the creation of a deliberate program, resulting from the TEDS survey that is seeks to significantly reduce or eliminate the potential risks identified in the survey.
Training – No program will produce desired results unless the plan is exercised, and personnel are trained. Training needs to evaluate critically, and shortcoming improved upon.
Cost to Churches or Ministries - Helping churches or ministries plan for the protection of their members or quests is my ministry. This is a ministry that I feel I have been learning for and training for all my adult life, through my years in service and post service careers to now teaching shooting sports.
As a ministry I do not charge any church or ministry group for the TEDS survey or the CAPP creation. I only charge those costs associated with training that are charged to me – i.e., range fees, etc.