Serving by Safeguarding Your Church

This practical guide enables church deacons, trustees, and other lay and ordained leaders to evaluate the current security status of their church to encourage improved protection of buildings and people.

Paul E. Engle, series editor for Counterpoints Church Life, is an ordained minister who served for twenty-two years in pastoral ministry in Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Illinois, and Michigan. He is an adjunct teacher in several seminaries in this country and internationally. He serves as associate publisher and executive editor in the Church, Academic, and Ministry Resources team at Zondervan. He and his wife Margie, live in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Robert H. Welch is associate dean at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and an instructor with the National Association of Church Business Administration certification program. He is the author of 'The Church Organizational Manual' and a contributor to the 'Leadership and Administration' volume in the Leadership Handbook of Practical Theology series.