ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
The Zero 5 Podcast brings ideas, information, and training to help churches build safety ministries that facilitate worship and fellowship that is safe and free from worry.
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Update frequency:
every 11 days
Average audio length:
25 minutes
English
United States
20 episodes
since March 12, 2026
episodic
LATEST EPISODE 🔗
In this episode of the Zero 5 Podcast I’m joined by my fellow Zero 5 instructor Grant Flynn, and a close friend and fellow safety team member Wes Tanskley. Wes brought up a great question a couple of weeks ago about whether or not it’s possible for safety team members to train too much. The …
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
Eight years ago if you did a Google search for church safety training you might come up with 2 or 3 entities that were in the “business” of training and consulting church safety ministries. Now it seems like every church-going, retired police officer or veteran has a “training” business and T…
Last episode I discussed the most important, foundational skill of incident response: Radio Communications. In that episode I alluded to another concept called the 1000 piece puzzle, which I discuss in this episode.
The gist of this concept is that every incident must be viewed as a puzz…
A little over a week ago, my team did some scenario training. I designed the scenarios with the goal of forcing the team to think on their feet and problem solve. They were extremely complex and difficult, with no clear cut solution. The stress level that resulted was tremendous, but the tea…
After trying on two separate occasions to remotely record a podcast episode with John Riley, and having technical difficulties on both, I was finally able to sit down with John in person to conduct this interview. John is the founder of Gentle Response, LLC, which specializes in teaching de-e…
Recently, I did an impromptu survey on social media asking, “Why does a pastor require additional or individual security?” The overwhelming majority of replies that I got were along the lines that pastors do warrant individual security because they are the target or the focus of attacks on ch…
Church safety ministries are a in a very unique category. They are expected to train and respond like first responders, maintain and protect the ministry of the church as a whole, and do both as volunteers who get relatively little training and very little real world experience application of…
When you have been commissioned to respond to emergencies and to protect the lives of others you have been given a mission higher than almost any other. Accomplishing that mission takes preparation. In this episode I discuss how church safety team members should prepare for going on duty at …
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 of…
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 o…
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