Wise as Serpents Gentle as Doves: Insight, ideas, and discussion about how to start or improve a church security team

Church security is evolving. Assuring congregants’ safety and security is now becoming as accepted as ushers and greeters. While it’s still OK to instruct most volunteers with verbal instruction, volunteers on church security teams have much different roles.Today’s church security is a threat assessment team that must be trained to be aware and to know proper responses that glorify God, promote church mission, and is inviting to those who seek salvation. It is a first response team that reacts to immediate threats or EMS needs.Achieving excellence must be the goal. This book is about a journey from a loose volunteer security team of committed individuals to a structured threat assessment and first response team.Outlined is our Standard Operating Guidelines (SOGs) and logical explanations of why they are important.