Church Security Team Training

Protect the Innocent. Stop the Threat. Do No Harm.

Violence doesn’t avoid churches.

Every year, armed assaults, volatile individuals, and targeted attacks occur inside houses of worship across the country. Many never make national headlines—but they are happening, and they are increasing. When an attack occurs in a church, the environment is uniquely dangerous: families, children, crowded seating, limited movement, poor angles, and chaos.

If your church has a security team, hope is not a plan.
Training is the difference between being an asset—or becoming a liability.

Liberty Firearms Academy’s Church Security Team Training is a purpose-built program designed to prepare armed church security teams to respond decisively, lawfully, and responsibly to real-world threats—while protecting innocent congregants and minimizing risk to the church.

This is realistic violence response training for the environments churches actually face.

The Reality of Church Defense

An attack inside a church is one of the most complex defensive scenarios imaginable:

• Crowds of innocent people between you and the threat

• Children moving unpredictably

• Confined spaces and poor lighting

• Multiple angles, limited cover, and high legal consequences

• The need to act fast—but not recklessly

Your team must be able to think, communicate, move, and shoot under extreme pressure—without tunnel vision or panic.

This course is built to develop exactly that capability.

What This Training Delivers

This course blends classroom instruction with live-fire, scenario-based training tailored to your church, your layout, and your team’s experience level.

Students will learn:

• How to recognize and assess threats before violence erupts

• How to carry and deploy firearms safely in crowded worship environments

• How to draw from concealment and make accurate hits under stress

• How to make correct shoot / no-shoot decisions with innocents in close proximity

• How to communicate and move as a team during an active threat

• How to engage an attacker inside a crowd without endangering bystanders

• How to operate inside buildings using realistic room-clearing principles

• How to engage active shooters with limited visibility

• How to move, bound, and cover teammates under pressure

• How to respond decisively without over-reaction or hesitation

Training scenarios can include:

• Active threat in the middle of a seated congregation

• Close-proximity engagements inside hallways and rooms

• Live-fire shoot house scenarios simulating church interiors

• Parking lot and exterior movement drills

• Single and multiple attacker problems

• Team communication failures—and how to fix them

This training prepares teams to act with discipline, restraint, and precision when seconds matter and mistakes are unacceptable.

Why This Training Matters

Carrying a firearm inside a church is a serious responsibility.

Without proper training:

• Well-intentioned team members can freeze

• Poor positioning can endanger innocent lives

• Lack of communication can cause friendly-fire or chaos

• Hesitation or panic can cost lives

This course exists to ensure your team is:

• Prepared, not reactive

• Disciplined, not reckless

• A protective force, not a liability

Course Requirements

Gear

• Reliable concealed-carry handgun

• Minimum of 3 magazines (more for low-capacity pistols)

• Quality holster that fully covers the trigger guard

Skill Level

• Open to all experience levels

• Course content is adjusted to match your team’s background—from armed civilians to prior law enforcement or military

Estimated Round Count

• ~350 rounds FMJ

• ~50 rounds compressed copper

Final Word

Your church is a place of peace—but evil does not respect sacred spaces.

If your church has chosen to establish a security team, it owes that team—and its congregation—the training required to do the job correctly.

This course is about protecting life, not seeking confrontation.
It is about clarity under pressure, not fear.
It is about ensuring that if violence comes to your doors, your team is ready to stop it—without harming the innocent they are sworn to protect.

Now is the time to get your team squared away.