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One of the churches in Austin hosts a bi-monthly safety / security meeting to exchange best practices with other local churches.

In September the guest speakers were from Guidepost Solutions ( https://guidepostsolutions.com/ ) & spoke on 'how to discuss the need for a Safety Ministry with your church leadership team'. The stats they presented to highlight the increase of violent acts involving houses of worship were pulled from here: https://www.fbsnamerica.com/1999-2019-dfi-statistics ((However, the presenter did mention that some of the stats from this source differed from others he'd seen. He didn't elaborate, but if it's like some stats I've seen it may be a bit inflated by including events that happen in parking lots or 'in vicinity of' a house of worship at night / when no church activities are taking place, etc.))

After establishing that there is 'a Risk', they broke the talking points into:
- the 'Civil Liability' aspect that can be incurred if the church leadership is 'aware' of a risk, but 'fails to take reasonable steps to mitigate the known risks'.
- the Biblical precedence for 'securing the flock'

You can contact Guidepost Solutions at the link above & see if they will share their presentation with you or see if they'll come out & give their presentation to your church leadership regarding the liability aspect.

For the biblical precedence for 'securing the flock', here's some of the verses they cited:
Nehimiah
1 Peter 5:8
John 2:13-16
Acts 2-: 28-31
1 Sam 25:13
Matt 4:1-11

Hopefully something here can help you to broach the subject with your own church leadership.