Zero 5 Podcast

After the last podcast about recruiting your safety team I was asked a really good question by one of our subscribers. He asked what do you do if you’re church leadership won’t fund or support training? The Problem This is actually a problem that many safety ministries face. Churches often see safety teams as an accessory group no different than an AA meeting or a prayer group. It’s a separate gro...

In this episode Mike discusses how to recruit the team for your safety ministry, what types of people your ministry is likely to attract, and how to discern who is a good fit to be a responder, and who is better as just eyes and ears. To help with our GiveSendGo campaign to raise money for force on force equipment to train church safety ministries please donate at or share: https://www.givesendgo....

A recent study of 149 officer involved shootings yielded some shocking results. In this episode I discuss this study, its results, how the results justify the need for church safety ministries and training. Please support Zero 5 Safety Training by becoming a paid subscriber. If you'd like to donate to our GiveSendGo campaign to raise money for force on force training gear to make top level trainin...

In this episode, Mike outlines the first steps to take in starting a Safety Ministry from scratch, or moving from a safety team to a ministry. Key Points: 1. Pray about it! 2. Make your key decisions how what kind of ministry you want. 3. Pick someone to lead your ministry. 4. Hire someone to do a risk and vulnerability assessment. 5. Develop your SOPs and SOGs/ERGs based on your risk and vulnerab...

“How do I get people to participate more?” This is a question I get from safety ministry leaders A LOT. This is also a very tough subject for leaders who are prior military or first responder to grasp. In those worlds we can very easy command somebody to go to training, or do their job; failure to do so results in some sort of discipline. This doesn’t necessarily work in volunteer organizations li...

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This episode/article is likely going to throw a lot of people off. As protectors we all like to think that if/when the time came and someone was threatening the lives of our families or congregations that we’d be able to dispatch the threat without giving it a second thought. Though I’ve discussed this topic before in a previous article I believe it’s worth revisiting because there’s a tendency am...

Another extremely undervalued skill that is trainable is the ability to remain calm while under stress. Believe it or not this is a skill that rarely comes natural to most people and can/must be trained. The ability to remain calm transcends all other skills because if you cannot remain calm in a stressful situation your ability to exercise any of your other skills gets severely diminished. What I...

I want to discuss the absolute most underrated skillset in church safety ministries. Without this skill even the most routine situations can fall apart. It is the most common sense skill, and yet, is the first skill that goes out the window when the stress levels rise. It receives very little if any attention, yet is THE most vital skill in mitigating an emergency situation. I’m talking about emer...

I want to thank all of my subscribers for bearing with me as I navigate starting a podcast. What I’ve noticed is that there is a solid mixture of folks that listen to/watch the podcast and some who only read the articles. In the interest of furthering this ministry I’m going to do both. If you didn’t listen to the first episode of the Zero 5 Podcast I am not very tech savvy, so all of this is a le...

In this episode Mike discusses how to deal with 1st Amendment auditors in a way that glorifies God, gets them to leave, or at least sheds a good light on your church. Get full access to Zero 5 Safety Training's Substack at zero5safetytraining.substack.com/subscribe

Today I am introducing the Zero 5 Podcast! In writing and sharing this Substack I have learned that some church safety ministry topics are more effectively discussed through a conversation or video than through writing. I will continue to write Substack articles, but some subjects will get a corresponding podcast for further elaboration. I want to thank all of my subscribers for your interest in c...