Securing the Sanctuary-Christian Warrior Training

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Paid subscribers make this possible. Please consider upgrading your subscription to help us protect all churches. We are looking for churches to host CASIC in CA, TX and FL. Your church and students must meet selective criteria. Not everyone can attend. See selection criteria at the bottom of this article. Bottom Line Up Front (BLUF) The first Church Active Shooter Instructor Course (CASIC) ran Oc...

Paid subscribers make this possible. Please consider upgrading your subscription to help us protect all churches. My analyst notes are available to paid subscribers. Scroll to the bottom to read them. Bottom Line Up Front (BLUF) Election Day is Tuesday, November 3, and many churches across the country will open their buildings as polling places. There is no known specific threat against church pol...

Help us protect the Body of Christ by upgrading your subscription. For the price of a cup of coffee each month, we can do more to help us all. Most church security team members get their training in whatever order it shows up. A free class comes along, somebody signs up, and three years later the team has a member who has been through a carbine course but has never applied a tourniquet. Police aca...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.christianwarriortraining.com We rely on PAID subscriptions to run Christian Warrior. There are downloads for paid subscribers below. 🛑Downloads at The Bottom of This Page👇 Bottom Line Up Front (BLUF) A mother and her 2-year-old daughter were found shot to death inside a car in the parking lot of Milford Baptist Church in Marietta,...

The price of a cup of coffee each month allows me to teach Christian warriors that cannot afford this training. Drone Warfare and the Threat to Your Church I have been warning church safety teams about drones for roughly two years. Some people have listened. Others have told me to stay in my lane, that this is a problem for another country, or that their church has no reason to prepare for it. I r...

Paid subscribers make this possible. Please consider upgrading your subscription to help us protect all churches. THERE ARE DOWNLOADS FOR PAID SUBSCRIBERS AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS BULLETIN. Bottom Line Up Front (BLUF) Online supporters of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) are calling for attacks on Christmas markets and Christian communities this season, and one user recommended vehicle ramm...

Paid subscribers make this possible. Please consider upgrading your subscription to help us protect all churches. Bottom Line Up Front (BLUF) At about 11:13 p.m. on Friday, 16 October 2026, a gunman in a white sedan fired on a group leaving a building in the 4000 block of West 26th Street near Pulaski Road, in Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood. Four men, ages 19 to 56, were shot in the arms, l...

These debriefs are made possible by paid subscribers. Please consider upgrading your subscription. Status as of Friday, October 16, 2026. Information is preliminary. Bend Police scheduled another press conference for this afternoon and said more information about the community member who stopped the suspect would likely be released today. Bottom Line Up Front (BLUF) On Thursday, October 15, a man...

For the price of a cup of coffee each month, you can help better protect the Body of Christ. Foreword This incident happened at a political protest, and I am asking you to set the politics aside. Whether you support or oppose the No Kings movement has no bearing on what happened in that street. We are reviewing it because the people on that safety team operated a lot like church safety teams do. T...

AJ was armed when he came face to face with the active shooter at the Twin Falls In-N-Out. He was shot, his arm was shattered, and when he tried to return fire, his gun went click. There was no round in the chamber. In this interview, the former police officer walks me through the attack, the actions his wife and friend took to keep him alive, and his ongoing recovery. We examine what went right,...

Paid subscribers make this possible. Please consider upgrading your subscription to help us protect all churches. One Year After Grand Blanc, Is Your Church Ready? On September 28, 2025, four people went to church in Grand Blanc Township, Michigan, and never came home. Their names were Craig Hayden, John Bond, Thelma Armstrong, and William “Pat” Howard. A man drove a truck into their meetinghouse,...

Paid subscribers make this possible. Please consider upgrading your subscription to help us protect all churches. Seats Open for Our Free Michigan and Illinois Classes, and Applications Open for Active Shooter Instructor We still have seats in both of our free in-person church safety classes next month. The first is Thursday, October 8, from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. Eastern Time at CrossPointe Community...

Paid subscribers make this possible. Please consider upgrading your subscription to help us protect all churches. 10 Ways to Protect Your Church, in the Right Order If I walked into your church this Sunday, I might find three men carrying concealed firearms. If I walked around the building, I might also find a back door propped open, a children’s wing anybody can enter, and an alarm nobody has tes...

Paid subscribers make this possible. Please consider upgrading your subscription to help us protect all churches. Christian creators should not have to fight a faceless system simply to warn churches about crime, but that is exactly what Christian Warrior Training is dealing with right now. Do social media companies discriminate against Christian creators and Christian channels? I will let you dec...

Paid subscribers make this possible. Please consider upgrading your subscription to help us protect all churches. Certificates are Back On, New CASIC and Leadership Class and More I wanted to give everyone an update on what is happening with Christian Warrior Training because there is quite a bit going on right now. The first thing many of you have been asking about is certificates for our online...

Paid subscribers make this possible. Please consider upgrading your subscription to help us protect all churches. What Happened A 12-year-old girl died after a reversing SUV struck her on the property of Cedar Branch Missionary Baptist Church in Loris, South Carolina, on the night of Wednesday, September 16, 2026. Kantori Chestnut had attended a funeral at the church, 744 Cedar Branch Road, earlie...

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Paid subscribers make this possible. Please consider upgrading your subscription to help us protect all churches. American Christians have been hearing fragments of the Nigeria story for years. A kidnapped schoolgirl. A burned church. A Christmas massacre. What most believers in this country do not have is a clear picture of what is actually happening, who is driving it, and where it is headed. Th...

Paid subscribers make this possible. Please consider upgrading your subscription to help us protect all churches. Words can’t do justice when trying to describe what Stephen Willeford did that day. I have become friends with Stephen since this interview and what I have found out about him is amazing. Come join me as we talk about how he interrupted the worst church shooting in modern American hist...

Paid subscribers make this possible. Please consider upgrading your subscription to help us protect all churches. An insurance underwriter put it in writing this summer: “It is a hard no, even if just in classroom. We do not intend to cover being told it is ok to use any weapon or how to use one.” Not live fire. Not force on force. Not putting a gun in anyone’s hand. Being told. A church security...

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Paid subscribers make this possible. Please consider upgrading your subscription to help us protect all churches. In this video, I walk through what I carry to church and why I have chosen each piece of equipment. If you carry a firearm as part of a church safety team or simply as a concealed carrier attending church, I think you need to look seriously at whether your equipment matches the threat...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.christianwarriortraining.com Paid subscribers make this possible. Please consider upgrading your subscription to help us protect all churches. This week’s Roll Call Briefing examines a planned hostage attack against a Florida church and the warning signs investigators uncovered before the suspect could act. We also cover the shootin...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.christianwarriortraining.com Paid subscribers make this possible. Please consider upgrading your subscription to help us protect all churches. What Is In This Week’s Briefing ✅ Current threat level determination and the reasoning behind holding at Orange ✅ Alert posture for the week, including staffing and protocol guidance ✅ 3 i...