NOCSSM February 2025 Newsletter

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NOCSSM 19th Annual National Church

Security and Safety Conference

August 9, 2025

LOCATION: Central Baptist Church, 301 N. Lake Creek Dr., Round Rock, TX

DATE: August 9, 2025

We are thrilled to announce our 19^th Annual Church Security and Safety Conference, hosted by Central Baptist Church in Round Rock, TX. August 9^th, 2025. Church security directors, administrators and pastors will find a wealth of information that will help keep your church secure, presented by some of the most experienced subject matter experts in America..

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From the desk of Chuck Chadwick -

Resources for your security team.

I get hundreds of emails. I get all sorts of sales pitches on Church Security resources. By Googling “Church Security” you can find lots of material. Some of it Free and some not so much. A couple of years ago I bought every book on church security I could find on Amazon just to see if there was something new under the sun that might be of value to the church security world. They were almost all the same. All the vital areas were covered and there was very little of what I would call “bad advice”.

NOCSSM puts out newsletters with articles I write about church security. But after 20 years I found that I have already written on almost any subject having to do with church security. Our NOCSSM membership website resources have more articles, policies and procedure templates, Standards Operating Procedures for your security team, etc. Our YouTube channel has a lot of conference sessions from 18 years of yearly conferences. www.youtube.com/@gatekeeper921 .

NOCSSM’s yearly conference is a fantastic event tailored to give both the individual Gatekeeper and church Operations Executive and Administrator valuable insight into church security issues.

This month’s NOCSSM 2025 conference speaker profile:

Dr. Sean Lawler – The title is: “The Neurobiology of Survival: A Prescriptive Approach for Surviving Life-Threatening Events and Applying Psychological First Aid in the Aftermath”

Dr. Lawler will be presenting the brain’s and body’s response under extreme stress, including perceptual distortions that people can expect to experience and how to train to overcome these obstacles. He will also teach the Johns Hopkins approach to providing Psychological First Aid (something all church staff members and volunteers should be trained in). For those who have heard Dr. Lawler present before, this is an entirely new and revised lecture.

NEW CONFERENCE LOCATION –

We are pleased to announce that this year’s conference will be hosted by Central Baptist Church in Round Rock, Texas.

Central is one of our Gatekeepers Program partners and has a tremendous security ministry.

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video on the church’s security team.

Reserve your conference tickets now!

Updated NOCSSM Membership

Access to Members Resources – NOCSSM™ has complied an extensive collection of resource materials that can save you hours of work and show how other churches are addressing church security and safety issues. Online Access to conference videos.

ATTENTION GATEKEEPERS -

OPTIONAL TRAINING DAYS - DAY 1 AND 2 OF LEVEL 3 TRAINING

To provide more flexibility in our Level 3 training schedule, we now offer an additional weekend option each quarter. Since Level 3 courses must be taken in order, you can complete Days 1 and 2 on one weekend (Wednesday/Thursday) and finish Days 3 and 4 the following month (Friday/Saturday).

2025 Quarterly Level 3 Class Dates (Days 1 & 2):

February 28 & March 1
May 30 & 31
August 29 & 30

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EDUCATE

As a 501 (c)(3) non-profit, NOCSSM is the oldest and most respected name in Church Security and reflects real world professional church security experience in some of the largest churches in America. Hundreds of churches have benefited from our training and resources.

TRAIN

The Christian Security Institute™ (CSI) is licensed by the Texas Department of Public Safety – Private Security Bureau – License #F01109. CSI is a Texas state licensed training company that trains security officers.

SERVE

The Gatekeeper Program™ trains, certifies and licenses your volunteers as professional Security Officers commissioned under the Texas Department of Public Safety – Private Security Bureau. They are then deploys them back to your church under commercial security contract for a few dollars per hour.

Licensed by the Texas Department of Public Safety – Private Security Bureau – License #B15671

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