My heart is grieved by the news of the shooting of Pastor Fred Winters during the Sunday morning service at First Baptist Church in Maryville, Illinois.
It appears that a new form of random violence is now hitting churches. And churches unfortunately seem to make easy targets.
Several years ago, I attended a conference on terrorism in America and the need for even small town communities to take steps to boost security and plan for terrorism. Shootings like this one, remind us that acts of violence can happen anywhere at anytime.
How can churches take steps to increase security and plan for emergencies? Clearly they need to in today's world.
Our church does not currently have a security or emergency plan in place but we probably need to start thinking about one and getting one in place.
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Tuesday, March 10, 2009
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