Worship Safety Conferences: Training churches on how to do security

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I stumbled upon something concerning worship safety conferences related to security in churches.

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Police officers from around the world say security is needed now more than ever at places of worship. In fact, there was a worship safety conference in Sauk Rapids today and more than 150 people attended.
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Here is a link with conference info.
http://www.mncpa.net/index.asp?Type=B_EV&SEC={7C33C450-D571-4497-8352-B636E9E6A198}&DE={C036A200-EC29-48DA-8CB4-56BEDC4051A0}

Then a link to a flyer of what is covered.
http://www.mncpa.net/vertical/sites...loads/Church_Safety_Waite_Park_Flyer_2014.pdf

Learn techniques for conducting safety and security assessments;developing security committee meet
ings and teams; producing a se-
curity manual that gets used; presen
ting training about safety and se-
curity issues; keeping an expanded view of safety and security.
You will receive -
The complete
Worship Without Worry
packet for briefing others and
developing plans and procedures for all the People, Places, Property,
Programs and Processes of a place of worship.
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I then did some more Google research on "safety and security for places of worship" and found these..

http://theresurgence.com/files/pdfs/SafetyinChurch.pdf
HOW TO ASSESS THE SAFETY AND SECURITYOF YOUR PLACE OF
WORSHIP
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http://jps.anl.gov/Volume4_iss2/Paper1-BMHarrell.pdf
AbstractViolence in American
Church
es
is on the rise;
churches
today
are no longer safe havens from the
violen
ce of their communities and
religious
leaders face the unique challenge of
providing an
inviting
and loving environment in t
he church
without being mistaken for an easy target.
Churches can no longer afford to ignore their security.
The challenge for worsh
ip staff is
preventing the potential victimization of worship members and visitors while asser
ting ones self
as a “hard target” and maintaining the peaceful and welcoming milieu one expects at a house of
worship.
Unfortunately, the religious community is s
ubject to m
any of the same hazards that
secular
organization
s face
. These include both external and internal threats which can come in
the form of street criminals,
white collar criminals,
hate groups, terrorists, ideology groups, and
others. Typica
lly, co
ngregations are not
prepared
at all or at best are prepared minimally
for the
ri
sks these groups present
.
This paper addresses the specific security concern and suggests a
simple plan for action.
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Anyways this is a new topic for me, and I thought it might be for you too.
 
JDecree said:
I don't like the sound of it one bit...
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Re-read it.

It's not about having a police state, it's about teaching churches how to be safer. I'm not sure how much of it is going to work though - although their emphasis on what to do in a fire seems like a good idea
 
If the left wasn't so busy "demonizing" all the moral Christians in the West and using them as a scapegoat for all the problems they bring on themselves as a result of the great immorality and addictions the choose to engage in, this wouldn't be happening. It's culturally driven by immoral people in society, government, and the media.

Obama's mind control liberal fascist police monitors can stay out of our churches. We'll do our own security.
 
AgeofKnowledge said:
If the left wasn't so busy "demonizing" all the moral Christians in the West and using them as a scapegoat for all the problems they bring on themselves as a result of the great immorality and addictions the choose to engage in, this wouldn't be happening. It's culturally driven by immoral people in society, government, and the media.

Obama's mind control liberal fascist police monitors can stay out of our churches. We'll do our own security.
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You mean liberals may be creating a "cultural of hate" toward Christians???

*faints*

Say it ain't so!
They're so...so...soo...tolerant..and compassionate...and.....oh my!
 
That's exactly what I'm saying.

1still_waters said:
You mean liberals may be creating a "cultural of hate" toward Christians???

*faints*

Say it ain't so!
They're so...so...soo...tolerant..and compassionate...and.....oh my!
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at the church i attend, in the past there were some car break-ins in the parking lot during services. the city assigned a police officer to sit in the lot while service goes on.

that officer heard the loud praise coming out of the building and was impressed by the graciousness of the congregation before and after service. so he started listening to radio preachers while he was on the job sunday afternoons. in the parking lot one day he decided to turn his life back to God. a couple months ago he joined the church on one of his sundays off, and is now a regular attendee in my weekly 'small group' bible study.

praise God, He can use this to His purpose!

 
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