Category: Church Safety

This is an important question for struggling congregations. It may seem that everyone is overworked now and adding more responsibilities would be too much. There may be serious leadership limitations that prevent the forming of a Safety Committee and Safety Teams. These may include one …

Some churches reduce safety to what is minimal for many reasons. Sometimes church members are so overworked they refuse to take on any more responsibilities. In other cases, members have the mistaken belief that calling 911 will solve their needs–or that serious safety incidents “will …

Bevan Collins is a Christian, Baptist deacon, church Safety Coordinator, teacher, and a senior petroleum industry consultant with numerous years as an executive, engineer, inventor, author, business owner/operator, farmer, and rancher. Bevan has attended church for over 66 years. After experiencing multiple violent and non-violent …

Intentional Church Safety, Available from Amazon.com Safety in churches is about love, forward thinking, training, and action. This is easy because the principles are logical and easy to teach. It is hard because the “natural” reactions of many people are to do the opposite of …

It was about four years ago a question was raised about our church security.  The question was raised in response to some high-profile attacks on churches.  Church security?  We hadn’t given much thought to it.  Sure, there was a general sense that we must be …