About This Course:
We want to think our church is a place of refuge where we can safely grow a relationship with our God, family, and fellow congregation. Unfortunately, churches are quickly becoming one of the most targeted places for violence.
Many churches have started safety or security teams, but they often lack the ability to give proper training and guidance to the team members. In too many instances the church board simply finds the person in the congregation who happens to be a police officer, tags them to develop a security plan, and then opens it up to volunteers. While this is certainly better than having nothing in place, this approach can leave many holes in a fully comprehensive security plan.
Getting a full team together to offer training has issues. People have complicated schedules. Training facilities are limited. Training courses may offer some of the base skills, but they are not tailored to the church environment.
While we offer full advisement, planning, and training packages to churches, we found many other instances where individual safety team members understand it is “up to them” to get the training required. This course will help individuals who have been tasked to serve their church in a security or safety team role to be better prepared. In addition, several topics will be discussed they can take back to their organizations to help implement a more comprehensive plan.
Topics Covered:
Situational Awareness before, during, and after the service
De-escalation techniques for church environments
Firearms and other weapons considerations
Safeguarding the offering and financial contributions
Protecting the children
Medical issues, fires, weather events, and other safety emergencies
Legal liability
Equipment Required:
Notepad and Pen
Prerequisites:
None
Notes:
This course is primarily aimed at individual safety team members but will help guide the basis for an overall church plan.
This is a fast paced course with many topics covered
Follow-on training is available to go deeper into each topic
Price:
$95
If you or someone in your vicinity suffers a severe injury and is bleeding you need to know how to stop that bleeding quickly and effectively. There are many myths surrounding the usage of tourniquets, and not using one can cost someone their life. Penetrating wounds to the chest or abdomen can quickly create respiratory issues, and knowing how and when to properly seal those wounds are vital. These skills can be applied if you are in an active killer event, a car accident, or a workplace accident. Knowing the proper way to stop someone’s bleeding and how to keep the breathing is truly the difference between life and death.
Direct and indirect pressure
Myths and Misconceptions of tourniquets
Selection of commercial tourniquets and making improvised tourniquets
Tourniquet application on yourself and others including one handed use
Chest seal selection and usage
Introduction of the recovery position for medical and identification
Triage and casualty collection point management
Equipment Needed:
Pen and Paper – all practice equipment is provided
Open to ages 14+ with parent in attendance
This is an introduction course with primarily information given and minor application of skills. Participants should wear clothes they are comfortable in to lay on the floor.
$25.
About this Course:
Sometimes you just need to get into a door quickly and don’t have time to find the keys or pick the lock. Perhaps there is a medical emergency, fire, or violent situation. Knowing how to get inside the door with speed and safety is paramount to you being able to address the situation on the other side.
This course will show numerous techniques and tools to utilize for the purpose. Students will open doors, windows, and gates. The course is applicable to law enforcement, fire, ems, and civilians.
Operational Safety
Identification of Fortifications and Locking Mechanisms
Manual Breaching
Ballistic Breaching
Mechanical Breaching
Overview of Explosive Breaching
Tool Selection
Gloves such as MechanixWear or Tactical Gloves
Eye Protection
This is a mildly physical course where students will have to swing heavy battering rams, hold saws, etc.
This is an INDOOR course
Instructor:
This course is taught by a former Miami area SWAT officer
$225
Course Description:
If you’ve taken our Defesive Rifle Level 1 (AR) course, you qualify for this level 2 course. Ready for a fast paced day to take your skills to the next level?
Research and our own experience in our Force-on-Force classes show one of the most common injuries in a fight are injuries to the hands. If you take one of your hands out of the fight, can you still properly operate your weapon?
This course will take the skills you learned about operating your weapon, reloading, and clearing malfunctions, and force you to do all these things with one hand out of play. In addition, we will work on shooting from compromised positions.
In addition, this course will combine Moving & Shooting skills, where you will learn how to effectively shoot while moving.
Standing still in a gunfight will get you killed. You are either pressing the attack, retreating, moving toward cover, or moving toward an objective. Being able to manipulate your weapon one handed, weak handed, and while moving are vital to your success. This course will make extensive use of footwork, weapon control, and shot placement while on the move.
AR Style Rifle
Sling (Single, Two, or Three Point is fine)
3 Magazines
Magazine carry method
Approximately 350 rounds of ammunition
Eye and Ear protection
Defensive Rifle Level 1 (AR)
If you have attended an AR rifle course at another facility where you are familiar with all operations and clearing all malfunctions you will be accepted.
Open to ages 14 and over when attending with a parent.
$150
Have you taken our Defensive Handgun Level 1 and ready for a fast-paced day to take your skills to the next level?
This course will take the skills you learned about drawing your weapon, reloading, and clearing malfunctions, and force you to do all these things with one hand out of play. In addition, we will work on drawing from compromised positions and introduce you to the concepts of reactionary shooting (shooting through the draw without a sight picture).
Defensive Handgun Level 1.
If you have attended a defensive handgun course at another facility where you are familiar with drawing from a holster and clearing all malfunctions you will be accepted.
THIS IS A LADIES ONLY VERSION OF OUR CLASS.
In many areas, assailants prefer using bladed or pointed weapons. Additionally, there are places where carrying a firearm is not permitted, but you may be allowed to carry a knife for self-defense.
Most knife fighting or knife defense classes resemble a choreographed dance more than practical training for real encounters. Such encounters are often ambushes, typically brief but always brutal. Your training needs to focus on the actual techniques employed by most attackers.
This is not a martial arts training course. It is a hybrid-style, reality-based system with techniques you can apply immediately.
Topics Include:
This course is focused on practicality and is designed with methods to adapt to various situations, opponents, and personal fitness, skill, and size.
Special Note about Physical Condition:
You do NOT have to be in great shape, be strong or particularly fast. A 100 pound woman can drop a man twice her size using the principles taught. That's not hyperbole, and will be demonstrated in class.
$125
You want to be prepared in a medical emergency, and you have taken some various medical classes to have the skills. But now what do you actually put in your medical bag to be more effective? What should you have in your car kit that you don't have in your individual kit? Should your home kit contain additional items? What about if you go hiking or camping? This course will discuss various types of medical kits and what we recommend to have in each. We will also give you ideas of pricing for each item. Topics covered:
Various kits and content changes
Types of medical bags and vendors
Supply availability and cost
Personal/Family kits versus items you may use as a Good Samaritan
This course is NOT a medical course that teaches you how to use the various items nor provide you with in-depth applications. However, this course will benefit you no matter your level of training.
Pre-requisites: None
Special Notes:
Open to ages 14+ with a parent.
This course is designed for students of all levels.
Cost:
$25
You're a police officer, on patrol when you get a domestic violence call. As you arrive at the door you hear screaming on the other side. How do you enter the house, how do you move from room to room, how do you carry your weapon?
You're in bed and hear the door crash in. You know the police are 10 minutes away. How do you move through your house insuring your family is safe?
All of these questions and MANY more will be explored in this course. You will learn how to fight in and around buildings, in full light, full darkness, and the spectrum between. You will learn how to work in alone, in pairs, and in a small team. You will learn how to use handguns, long guns (shotgun or rifle), sticks, knives, and improvised weapons in an encolsed space. This is a team based training where you will learn to work with other officers, concealed carry permit holders, and first responders to counter threats. This course WILL cover dynamic room entry, search, and clear techniques.
The skills will be applicable whether you are beginning civilian or a more advance law enforcement officer.
Eye protection
Flashlight
Gloves and Throat Protection
Please bring your current handgun, holster, and rifle. No magazines or ammo.
Pre-requisites:
Solid understanding of firearms safety
This a non-firing course. We will be using simunition and/or airsoft only. All live weapons will have firing pins removed by our armorer prior to the start of the event.
You must be willing to put your fears and preconcieved notions to the side. This will be a training of your mind as much as your skill. You do not have to be in excellent physical condition, but do expect to be moving often. Location will be near the Columbus Indiana Area and will be disclosed 1 week prior to the course.
$325
The AR-15/10 platform is one of the most popular rifles in existence today. With years of advances, it has become a highly reliable, accurate, and customizable platform. Primarily thought of as a combat weapon used in military, law enforcement, or personal defense situations, recent changes in hunting laws have seen it become popular in deer stands, hunting pigs, and blasting prairie dogs.
While saying you have an "AR" gives a basic idea of what you own, there are thousands of variations you can actually have. From the concealed carry 9 mm pistol version, to the .308 squad automatic sniper rifle, to the .50 Beowulf, there are close to a dozen different caliber choices. 8" barrels up to 24" barrels, different twist rates, different barrel thickness, low profile gas blocks, piston driven, free float rails, enhanced triggers, etc are all decisions you need to face when choosing an AR.
This course will teach you to fully disassemble your AR, trouble shoot any issues, customize any parts, and re-assemble.
An AR Armorers set is very valuable for this course. We will have limited tools available to borrow.
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If you want to get by with the basics and borrow our tools, we recommend a small punch set, a set of allen wrenches, a small hammer, and a small plastic or rubber mallet. You will also need a towel or armorer's mat to place on the table while working.
None.
Open to ages 14 and up when parent attends.
Note:
This course is being held at an ATF licensed FFL Manufacturing location. You may build a firearm from scratch but will have to fill out a new 4473 at the conclusion of class. Conversely, you can bring a fully assembled rifle, disassemble it, and reassemble without having to fill out the 4473.
$50
In the United States we are blessed with usually having timely access to hospitals and advanced life support treatment. Even in the remote areas, as long as we can establish communications and provide a location we can generally expect to get transport relatively quickly. Tactical Combat Casualty Care, Paramedic or EMT protocols, and even Pre-Hospital Trauma Life Support are highly successful in reducing mortality rates, but they all assume you are able to transport the patient to a trauma center within a relative short period of time. However, there are scenarios where that isn’t possible.
In remote survival situations where you are unable to communicate due to loss of cellular coverage, in natural disaster areas where cellular or radio transmission towers are destroyed, or in foreign countries with less professional responders you may find yourself having to care for a wounded person beyond the normal timeframe.
This course is based on the Military Special Operations Primary Field Care program for trauma patients. It introduces the students to techniques and strategies beyond TCCC to reduce mortality in the absence of appropriate medical or surgical care when in an austere and resource constrained environment.
This is NOT a wilderness first aid course
Who should take this course:
Disaster Services or Wilderness Search and Rescue Team Members
Backcountry Hikers / Campers / 4x4-ers
People who travel to non-Developed Countries Topics Covered:
Building on mastery of tactical combat casualty care
2-72 Hour care timeline and 72+ Hour care timeline
Ruck-Truck-House medical equipment and supplies
Good-Better-Best capability preparation
Resuscitating, Treating, Monitoring
Burn Care, Crush Syndrome, Tourniquet Conversion, Would Management, Therapeutic Plans, etc
All equipment will be provided
Tactical Combat Casualty Care or Tactical Emergency Casualty Care
$295
Many people think they know how to operate a handgun or to shoot accurately. However, do you know how to rapidly deploy your handgun in a stressful situation, make a successful hit, reload your weapon, and perform them all within 3 seconds?
If you are considering carrying a handgun for personal defense, or just want to keep one in your nightstand, this is a vital course for you. Regardless of how many rounds you have fired at your local range, you will learn how to use your handgun in real world situation.
This course is designed for those who have a basic understanding of handguns, but want to learn how to utilize it in a defensive situation.
Course Topics:
Range Safety
Carry Positions and Holster Selection
Proper Grip and Stance for Defensive Situations
Drawing from the Holster
After Action Drills
Ammunition Management and Reloads
Safe Dry-Fire Practice Methods and Drills
Required Equipment:
Semi-automatic Handgun
Extra Magazine and method to carry that magazine
Holster (No SERPA Retention Holsters, No Belly Band Holsters)
Approximately 100 rounds of ammunition
It is strongly recommended you have your own handgun and holster for this class. If you do not, please contact us and we can arrange for you to rent a handgun and borrow a holster.
All participants should bring ear and eye protection and dress appropriately for the weather.
Required Prerequisites:
You must know how to properly load your weapon, operate the slide action (and any safeties), Understand sight alignment and trigger control. If you are brand new to handguns or feel you need more training in the basics, please sign up for the Basic Handgun course prior to attending this course.
Defensive Firearms Mindset is highly recommended but not required.
This course is open to ages 14+ as long as a parent attends.
This course is $75 Handgun rental is $25 + Market cost for ammunition - Please bring cash to course to pay instructor
Registration Notes:
If the class is full you can sign up for the waitlist. This does NOT mean you have a spot to attend. If someone cancels we go down the waitlist and give first chance to register to those on the waitlist. Only once you complete your full registration and payment are you guaranteed a spot in the course.
Most of us know how to protect our physical safety—but what about our psychological well-being? Emotional abuse, gaslighting, manipulation, and narcissistic behavior can be just as damaging as physical threats, especially when they come from people we can’t easily avoid—coworkers, partners, family members, or authority figures.
This course is an empowering 8-hour classroom-based training that gives everyday adults the tools to protect their mental and emotional boundaries, even in environments they can’t escape. Grounded in current research but presented in plain language, this class helps you recognize red flags, avoid psychological traps, and respond with clarity and strength.
You’ll learn how to stay grounded in the face of toxic behavior, how to protect your identity and values from erosion, and how to choose the safest and most effective path—whether that means adapting, confronting, or exiting the relationship entirely. You don’t need a psychology degree to defend yourself—you just need a clear understanding of how manipulation works, how it affects your brain, and how to take back your power.
Whether you're navigating a difficult workplace, a challenging family dynamic, or a painful personal relationship, this course will help you stay strong, stay sane, and stay in control.
Topics Covered Include:
Understanding emotional manipulation and abuse
Narcissistic traits and behavioral red flags (non-clinical)
Gaslighting, guilt-tripping, and coercive control tactics
How trauma bonding and fawning responses work
The psychological cost of staying—and leaving
Boundaries that hold up under pressure
Communicating with manipulative people without becoming a target
“Gray Rock” and “Yellow Rock” techniques
Planning for emotional and physical safety
Rebuilding your inner voice and personal identity
Pen and Paper for notes. This is a classroom based course.
An open mind
This course is open to ages 16+ with a parent in attendance. Come prepared to confront hard truths, challenge old patterns, and leave with a stronger sense of self.
About This Event:
This will be a fun competition.
There will be various individual stages scored. Each stage will be of various distances between 25 and 100 yards. Time and targets will be varied.
Prizes will be awarded, but the focus is on fun and camaraderie. Plus it will give everyone an option to see what setups other people have. Equipment Required:
.22LR caliber rifle
Iron Sites, Scopes, Red Dots, etc are allowed.
Semi-Auto, Pump, Lever Action, or Bolt Action. Single shots will struggle in timed events.
If you have a $200 setup, it will be fine. If you have a $2,000 setup, it will be fine. Again, this is as much about fun as it is competition (although it will be a competition with bragging rights and prizes)
If you do not have a rifle, buy the ammo and run the one we provide (no cost).
Bring eye and ear protection
Some sort of mat to lay on the ground in case of inclement weather
200 rounds of ammo. As long as it is 22LR type does not matter.
Safe Firearms Handling Skills
Age Limit:
None as long as a parent attends
$75
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