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by Keith Graves
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- 3 days ago2 min
Weekly Roll Call Briefing: Church Security HIGH ALERT-What Safety Teams Need to Know This Week
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.christianwarriortraining.comPaid subscribers make this possible. Please consider upgrading your subscription to help us protect all churches.FREE, LIVE TRAINING IN ILLINOIS AND MICHIGANDon’t forget to sign up for either the Michigan or Illinois classes. I’m giving these classes for free. It is in person only. Inside This Week’s Roll Call Briefing✅ Current threat condition: HIGH / ORANGE✅ Suspicious activity and possible surveillance at churches✅ Armed and violent incidents involving churches✅ Terrorism and intelligence developments✅ September dates of significance and elevated-risk periods✅ Training guidance for working elevated-risk datesThis is meant to be read by your team, or as a reference for team leads as they address the troops, before starting your shift guarding the Body of Christ.Download The Briefing Here👇
- 1 weeks ago17 min
Christian Genocide Is Spreading Across Africa
Paid subscribers make this possible. Please consider upgrading your subscription to help us protect all churches.American Christians have been hearing fragments of the Nigeria story for years. A kidnapped schoolgirl. A burned church. A Christmas massacre. What most believers in this country do not have is a clear picture of what is actually happening, who is driving it, and where it is headed. This article is built to fill that gap.Nigeria is currently the deadliest country in the world for Christians. Open Doors, in its 2026 World Watch List, reports that of the 4,849 Christians killed for their faith over the past reporting year, 3,490 of them were killed in Nigeria. That is more than seventy percent of the global total coming from a single country. The violence is not limited to one region or one group. It runs from the northeast, where Boko Haram first emerged, through the Middle Belt, where Fulani militia attacks have emptied entire villages, into the northwest, where ISIS-linked groups now move freely, and across the borders into Niger, Burkina Faso, Mali, Cameroon, and the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.This is a long article. I wrote it that way on purpose. A pastor, a security team leader, or a congregant who wants to understand this situation should be able to come back to a single piece and have the picture in front of them.The Scale of the ProblemNigeria is the most populous country in Africa with roughly 220 million people, split about evenly between Muslims in the north and Christians in the south. The Middle Belt sits between the two halves and has become the fault line where most of the killing occurs. The country sits at the southern edge of the Sahel, the arid band that runs across Africa from Senegal in the west to Sudan in the east. Every major jihadist movement currently operating in Africa touches that band somewhere.The Observatory for Religious Freedom in Africa documented 79,323 people killed across Nigeria between October 2019 and September 2025, of whom 42,033 were civilians. Forty-four percent of the civilian killings were attributed to Fulani militias, compared to twelve percent for Boko Haram and ISWAP combined. In the states where attacks occur, Christians were killed at a rate approximately 4.4 times higher than Muslims relative to their share of the population. The count was 22,835 Christian civilians killed against 10,519 Muslims.The numbers do not capture the displacement. Since 2019, more than 2.2 million Nigerians have been driven from their homes by the farmer-herder violence alone. That figure does not include the millions more displaced by Boko Haram, ISWAP, and the kidnapping gangs that now operate across large portions of the country. Entire Christian farming villages have been burned. Survivors are pushed into displacement camps with conditions that are hard for most Americans to picture.The Nigerian federal government has refused for more than a decade to name what is happening. In December 2025, Abuja finally classified Fulani militias, bandits, and armed gangs as terrorists under a new counterterrorism doctrine. Most Nigerian Christians view the move as too late and too narrow.Who the Fulani AreTo understand the Middle Belt, you have to understand who the Fulani are. The American press almost always reduces them to a single word, “herdsmen,” which leaves out everything that matters.The Fulani, also called Fula, Fulbe, or Peul, are one of the largest ethnic groups on the African continent. Estimates place their population between 25 and 45 million, spread across at least twenty countries, with the largest concentrations in Nigeria, Mali, Guinea, Senegal, Niger, Cameroon, and Burkina Faso. About 17 million Fulani live in Nigeria. They are the largest nomadic pastoral community in the world. Roughly a third of them still live as traditional herders moving cattle across the Sahel. The rest are semi-settled farmers, traders, scholars, merchants, and in many countries, the ruling class.The Fulani were among the earliest sub-Saharan African peoples to convert to Islam, centuries before most of their neighbors. That early conversion shaped their identity and gave them a sense of religious superiority over the surrounding peoples they regarded as pagans. From the 1700s into the 1800s, Fulani clerics led a series of holy wars across West Africa. The most significant was the jihad launched in 1804 by Usman dan Fodio, a Fulani preacher who declared the existing Hausa kings insufficiently Islamic and called the population to revolt. His jihad swept through what is now northern Nigeria and built the Sokoto Caliphate, one of the largest Islamic empires Africa has ever seen. That caliphate lasted until the British arrived in the early 1900s.The Sokoto Caliphate is not history to the people in the region. The Sultan of Sokoto is still recognize
- 2 weeks ago53 min
What Really Happened at the Worst Church Shooting in America: Stephen Willeford Interview
Paid subscribers make this possible. Please consider upgrading your subscription to help us protect all churches.Words can’t do justice when trying to describe what Stephen Willeford did that day. I have become friends with Stephen since this interview and what I have found out about him is amazing. Come join me as we talk about how he interrupted the worst church shooting in modern American history. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.christianwarriortraining.com/subscribe
- 3 weeks ago12 min
They Tried to Cancel Christian Warrior Training Over What I Teach: Right to Bear Saved Us.
Paid subscribers make this possible. Please consider upgrading your subscription to help us protect all churches.An insurance underwriter put it in writing this summer: “It is a hard no, even if just in classroom. We do not intend to cover being told it is ok to use any weapon or how to use one.”Not live fire. Not force on force. Not putting a gun in anyone’s hand. Being told. A church security instructor standing in a classroom, explaining when the law allows a man to defend his congregation, is conduct that carrier will not touch. That sentence came from RSUI’s underwriter, relayed to me in writing by my broker on July 10, after I asked whether the weapons exclusion on their quote could be amended. I have the email. I will show it to you in the video that goes with this article.That quote is the end of the story. Here is the beginning.Five clean years, then one honest answerGraves and Associates has carried professional liability and general liability since July of 2021. Five years, zero claims, premiums paid on time. This spring the renewal quote came in at $3,621 and I did what I teach every one of you to do with any contract: I read the whole policy before signing. I found a terrorism exclusion that appeared to apply across every insuring clause, no cyber coverage at all, and a business activities description that did not clearly include the instructor training courses I plan to launch. So I asked six questions in writing before binding. Would a negligence claim be covered if a church I trained were attacked. What does the terrorism endorsement actually restore. Does the policy cover instructor certification.The carrier’s answer was to pull the renewal entirely. Their stated reason, word for word: “Given the significant changes to the risk profile, including hands-on training, potential safety and evasion guidance, general security advisory services, and product sales, together with our review of the additional website, the account unfortunately now falls outside of our underwriting appetite.”Safety and evasion guidance. Teaching people how to not die put me outside their appetite. They offered me an extension to August 1 for another $157 so I could go find somebody else.Everybody said noMy broker marketed the account to the standard carriers: Liberty Mutual, The Hartford, Nationwide, Guard, Travelers. Every one declined. The nature of the business was outside their appetite. She went to the surplus lines markets, the specialty carriers that exist specifically for hard risks. Higher premiums, declines, or blocked submissions. A firearms industry program I applied to directly denied the application. By July 15 my broker told me plainly that she had reached the end of the companies she could approach. The one general liability quote she could secure came from RSUI, and it carried the weapons exclusion you read at the top of this article. When I asked if the exclusion could be removed for classroom instruction with inert training aids, laser trainers and blue plastic guns, nothing that fires anything, the answer was the hard no.Some of you are thinking there must be more to it. A claim, a lawsuit, something in the file. There is not. Five years, zero losses, and the loss runs to prove it. What changed was that I told the truth on a renewal application about where this ministry is headed. Honesty is what triggered all of it, and I would do it again, because a policy bound on an incomplete application is worse than no policy at all. Buried in the conditions of that same policy was an application warranty stating that any misrepresentation or non-disclosure renders the policy null and void and relieves the carrier of all liability. Plenty of trainers in this industry are paying premiums right now on policies their carriers would void the day a claim arrived, because the application never mentioned what they actually teach.The part that should make you angryThe insurance industry does not treat church violence as a fringe concern. Carriers that serve churches publish active shooter preparedness guidance. They distribute security checklists. They recommend congregations assess their vulnerabilities and train their people. The industry’s own risk materials tell churches to prepare for exactly the attack my courses address.Then the trainer shows up to buy coverage and the same industry says no. They will insure the church that receives the training. They will publish the checklist telling the church to get it. They will not cover the man who provides it, and one of them will not even cover him for talking about it in a classroom. I spent almost thirty years in law enforcement and I have sat across the table from people doing things they knew were indefensible. They at least had the decency to look uncomfortable. This industry put its position on letterhea
- Aug 17, 20261 min
Was There Another Shooting at an LDS Church Today? Request For Information
Paid subscribers make this possible. Please consider upgrading your subscription to help us protect all churches.Please watch the video. I am looking for info from followers on the shooting at a church in Kearns, UT today. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.christianwarriortraining.com/subscribe
- Aug 16, 202613 min
What I Carried at Church Today; Is Your EDC Adequate for Your Job?
Paid subscribers make this possible. Please consider upgrading your subscription to help us protect all churches.In this video, I walk through what I carry to church and why I have chosen each piece of equipment. If you carry a firearm as part of a church safety team or simply as a concealed carrier attending church, I think you need to look seriously at whether your equipment matches the threat you believe you may have to face. I cover my normal handgun setup, a smaller concealed carry option, communications, less lethal options, body armor, medical gear, and the equipment I keep available if an incident requires me to move from a handgun to a rifle. You can carry capable equipment without walking into church looking like you are headed to a SWAT callout. The goal is to blend in during normal church activities while having the equipment, training, and options necessary to protect the congregation if something happens.Gear Mentioned in the VideoFirearms and Firearm Equipment* Glock 45, 9mm* Glock 20, 10mm, my normal church carry handgun* Glock 43X, discussed as a smaller concealed carry option* .300 Blackout rifle/carbine* Speer Gold Dot 9mm ammunition* Trijicon SRO red dot optic* Aimpoint COA red dot optic, on the Glock 43X* Radian barrel and compensator* Radian Magwell* Streamlight TLR 1 HP X weapon light* Palmetto State Armory Dagger magazines, 15 round magazines used with my Glock 43XHolsters and Load Carrying Equipment* <a target="_blank" href="https://www.trex-arms.com/store/t-rex-sidecar-holster-465547?handedness=%22Right%22&threaded=false&kydex_color_ref=1&selected_attribute_value_refs=%5B861%5D&pistol_magazine_bucket_ref=1&holster_internal_mechanism_ref=null&hardwared_add_ons=%5B%7B%22product_ref%22%3A1086516%2C%22kydex_color_
- Aug 14, 20260 min
Planned Church Hostage Attack and Family Shot At After Service: Weekly Roll Call Briefing
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.christianwarriortraining.comPaid subscribers make this possible. Please consider upgrading your subscription to help us protect all churches.This week’s Roll Call Briefing examines a planned hostage attack against a Florida church and the warning signs investigators uncovered before the suspect could act. We also cover the shooting of a family returning home from church, several developing terrorism concerns, violent incidents affecting churches, and how safety teams should respond when an armed suspect takes hostages.* A Florida suspect who allegedly cased a church and planned to take hostages* A family’s vehicle struck by gunfire while they were returning home from church* ISIS claims involving the deaths of Christians in the Congo* Pro ISIS requests for explosives, poison, and drone instructions* Iranian cyberattacks against American water systems* A bomb threat, suspicious death, and sex offender case involving churches* Recognizing leakage and pre-attack reconnaissance* Understanding hostage and barricaded incidents* Psalm 144:1 and the responsibility to prepareDOWNLOAD THE ROLL CALL BRIEFING HANDOUT 👇
- Aug 7, 20261 min
Weekly Roll Call Briefing: WRCB-26-32
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.christianwarriortraining.comPaid subscribers make this possible. Please consider upgrading your subscription to help us protect all churches.What Is In This Week’s Briefing✅ Current threat level determination and the reasoning behind holding at Orange✅ Alert posture for the week, including staffing and protocol guidance✅ 3 intelligence items covering a mass shooting stopped by armed citizens, a foreign paid-attacker network now operating in North America, and juvenile self-radicalization targeting schools✅ 4 church incidents from the past 3 weeks, each with the security lesson attached✅ Training focus with 5 leader prompts you can read straight off the page at roll call✅ Briefing intent with this week’s Scripture for your team✅ Personnel assignment grid and the daily checklistWhy The Paywall Is BackThe Roll Call Briefing has always been a for those that are gracious enough to support CWT. If it weren’t for them, we could not do any of this. I opened it up in April because the threat picture at that time involved specific dangers I wanted in front of every church in the country, whether they paid or not. Those threats have passed. New ones have taken their place, but the picture is more settled, and the reason I opened the gate no longer applies. So the paywall returns.Understand what you are and are not losing. The underlying information is still free. Every incident in this briefing appears in the Saturday Church Crime Newsletter at no cost to you. What the paid briefing gives you is the format: a finished, printable sheet you can put in your team leader’s hand before he steps in front of his people to brief a shift. That work takes hours every week, and it is what the subscription pays for. It helps pay for the analysis and personnel who help me put this all together. The Training Stays FreeThe free training at christianwarriortraining.com is not moving behind a paywall and never will. Every intelligence analysis we publish carries a training element you can take straight to your team, and every year we release a training matrix you can use to schedule your people out for the full year. If your budget is tight, use those. They are there for you.If your church is getting value out of these briefings, forward this to your pastor or your team leader. Then drop a comment below and tell me what your team is working on this month.DOWNLOAD THE ROLL CALL BRIEFING SHEET BELOW👇
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