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Spiritual First Aid: Youth Mental Health Fact Sheets

It’s not always easy to recognize when a young person is experiencing mental health challenges. Some signs, like changes in sleep, focus, behavior, or school performance, can be easy to miss or misinterpret.

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The ministry Spiritual First Aid^™ offers the free downloadable PDF resource, Common Youth Mental Health Challenges Fact Sheets, a packet of 5 quick-reference pages to help you identify common challenges children and teens face—so you can better understand, support, and respond with care to their acting-out behavior.

Counterterrorism Guide: Situational Awareness to Hinder An Attack

The Joint Counterterrorism Assessment Team (JCAT) is a US interagency collaboration based at the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC), which is aligned under the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI).

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Working with intelligence analysts from NCTC, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), JCAT’s primary mission is to improve counterterrorism information sharing between federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial government agencies and the private sector. The latter is where that information is adaptable for personal self-defense and church security teams in being situationally aware to pre-indicators of criminal and terroristic attacks.

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One resource is JCAT’s Counterterrorism Guide For Public Safety Personnel, offering content to assist self-defenders and church safety volunteers in:

Church Security Intelligence Clipboard

Key Church Security Articles

• Bible Verses Applicable to Self-Defense and Church Security

• The Biblical Case Why Every Church Needs Armed Security

• A Prayer for Church Security Team Members

• Interview With Christian Clark: Creator of Secure The Church App

• Church Security PDF Library: Multi-Source Free Manuals

• Church Security Book Review: Defending the Flock

• Enroll in the Sheepdog Church Security Academy Safety Member Certification Program

• Checklist: Church Security/Safety Equipment

• The Ministry of Protection: Why Church Safety Teams Matter and How Serving in the Ministry of Protection Brings Clarity to the Calling

• Church Security Demands a Higher Standard Than Mere Every Day Carry

• A List of Active Killer Incidents at Houses of Worship and Religious Schools

• Active Killer Advice Compendium

• Prepare for Teams of Terrorists, Says Gabe Suarez

• Discreet Body Armor for Self-Defense and Church Security

• What You Should Know to Prepare for Mobs Invading Church Services

• The 5 Lines of Defense in Church Security, Beginning Outside

• Church Security: Radio Communications Best Practices

By semperverus
Posted on 06/13/202505/31/2026
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US Secret Service Threat Assessment Church Case Study Links Domestic Violence with Mass Attacks

The US Secret Service National Threat Assessment Center (NTAC) has published, First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs: A Case Study on the Link Between Domestic Violence and Mass Attacks.

[ Read the SemperVerus article, Criminals and Terrorists Overwhelmingly Select Gun-Free Zones For Mass Attacks in Public Spaces ]

The 40-page report examines the background and behavioral history of the gunman who killed 26 people, including his wife’s grandmother, and wounded an additional 22 others in the attack at the church in Texas on November 5, 2017.

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The attacker had a long history of domestic violence, child abuse, and sexual violence perpetrated against friends, family members, and others.

Understand the Times and Know What to Do

The Bible’s books of First & Second Samuel and First & Second Chronicles recount ancient Israel as heavily defended by tribal influence and force.

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The country’s first king, Saul, rallied his fighting coalition to ward off the nation’s enemies. However, his reign began to end when he disobeyed God, and the young David became the LORD‘s anointed.

[ Read the SemperVerus article, The Biblical Case Why Every Church Needs Armed Security ]

God selected the shepherd-poet to become a warrior of national renown, beginning with defending Israel by dispatching the Philistine Goliath with slingshot precision and beheading him. David describes his expertise with defensive weapons in 2 Samuel 22:35, which states, “He trains my hands for battle, so that my arms can bend a bow of bronze” and is repeated in Psalm 18:34. And he reiterates it in Psalm 144:1, “Praise be to the LORD my Rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle.”

By semperverus
Posted on 05/28/202503/28/2026
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