I'm not sure if this should be in Mindset and Tactics or General Discussion, so mods please move if necessary.
I'm part of a small church that meets in a sketchy part of town. This past Sunday we had a woman come to our service who clearly had substance abuse problems amongst other issues. She entered before the service and was asking people for money. When she didn't get what she wanted she became agitated and left. She came back during the service and I and one of the women in the church met her outside to see what was going on. She had calmed down and joined our service. It worked out well in the end; she caused no disruptions and two of our members gave her a ride to her soster's house (not the move for everyone, I realize, but it ended well).
I was concerned about this incident because we have, as far as I can tell, no security plan or even members designated to assist with medical issues. As far as I know, only I and maybe one other member carry concealed at church, but we don't have a coordinated approach. I emailed our pastors yesterday with questions regarding what plans we do have in place, so hopefully I'll get some sort of answer soon.
I'd like to provide the pastors with some resources that could help them establish a church security/safety team and procedures. For those of you who have been involved with church security or security for similar venues, what resources have you found helpful? How have you overcome objections to having a security team? How have you trained volunteers? What kind of security measures have you put in place for children's areas?