Place of worship

Mm-hmm

... um, by Frank McCourt called Looking at Schools, Bars, and Houses of Worship.

I won't try to do the Irish accent, but listeners, you can, you can imagine it with a little bit of a lilt.

He writes, "This is a column.

in Yeshua.

[laughs] It's a good thing because the congregation is here in Israel, especially I can say, or I can testify, or I can witness in our church in Beth Hallel, or House of Worship.

Mm.

Our church is, uh, located in Ashdod in the southern part of Israel, but we have a lot of branches in Israel.

So our ultimate plan covers that automatically if you're part of a volunteer security team.

What a lot of people don't realize, you know, you can get permission from, you know, the leaders of the church, the pastors, any type of leader of the house of worship to carry inside.

Many of them will put together volunteer security teams, and these are great to have.

The problem is, if you get involved in the shooting there, you might not be covered by...

the church.

If you get involved in shooting, you'd be on your own.

And that's one of the reasons why we came out a couple of years ago with the House of Worship plan, you know, to help those who are actually defending the House of Worship.

And it, too, is the same thing where we cover the bond and, you know, we cover the civil liability.

He is the author of a new book, Leadership Through Chaos, What Decades in Intelligence, Crisis, and Chaos Taught Me About Leadership.

And he is here to discuss safety precautions and preparedness for houses of worship.

His name is Sal Lafreary, and many of you out there may know him from his RIMS events, appearances, and sessions.

So this is going to be a really great dialogue, not just for the RIMS community and RIMS members, but also for the public, for those individuals who may not be an official risk manager for their house of worship, but have to take the lead on ensuring the security and safety of your congregants.

There's a significance to that.

Sure.

Uh, the fact of what's going on in the world, you know, the, uh, the different issues that you have and the volatilities that are existing, uh, you look at these things that are occurring with, uh, you know, with synagogues and houses of worship across the, across the country.

Yeah.