Thanks for the continued comments, all good points to consider.

One issue discussed was that any potential member of the security team would need to have the ability to meet the same background criteria as for a CCW license.

My community is over 400,000, so we get the good and bad. There have been some vandalism and break-ins during nighttime hours.

Here are some church incidents from the last 6 years which have gotten many churches at least thinking about increased security:

* August 23, 2009: Anadarko, OK. The mutilated body of Rev. Carol Daniels was found inside the Christ Holy Sanctified Church on a Sunday afternoon. She was nude and in what appeared to be a "crucifix position” behind the altar.

* March 8, 2009: Marysville, IL. 27-year-old Terry Sedlacek walked into the morning service at First Baptist Church of Maryville, approached the Rev. Fred Winters, firing four times before his handgun jammed, fatally wounding Winters. Two parishioners were injured with a knife as they subdued Sedlacek.

* November 23, 2008: Clifton, NJ, Joseph “Sanish” Pallipurath killed his estranged wife and another churchgoer and injured one at the St. Thomas Syrian Orthodox Knanaya Church.

* July 27, 2008: Jim Adkisson killed 2 and injured 7 at the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church in Knoxville, TN. Believed to be out of his hatred for the church’s “Liberal social policies”.

* July 25, 2008: Brian Neiman killed after threatening Christian station WTLR in State College, PA. The gunman was killed by police on the grounds of the station. Bipolar disorder.

* December 9, 2007: Matthew Murray (24) kills two at Youth With A Mission dorm in Arvada, CO, then kills two at New Life Church in Colorado Springs before killing himself after being wounded by a church Security guard (Jeanne Assan).

* August 12, 2007: A lone gunman, Eiken Elam Saimon, opened fire in a Missouri Micronesian church, killing a pastor and two other churchgoers.

* May 20, 2007: A standoff between police and a suspect in the shootings of three people in a Moscow, Idaho, Presbyterian Church ended with three dead, including one police officer.

* Although not at a church building, the Oct. 2, 2006, attack in Lancaster County, Pa., by a gunman who killed five girls and then himself at an Amish school targeted a religious site.

* May 21, 2006: Baton Rouge, LA. Anthony Bell opened fire Sunday morning at the Ministry of Jesus Christ church hitting five people, four of them fatally before abducting his wife, whom he later shot to death at another location.

* Feb. 26, 2006: Michigan. Two people were killed at Zion Hope Missionary Baptist Church by a man who reportedly went to the church looking for his girlfriend. He later killed himself.

* April 9, 2005: A 27-year-old airman died after being shot at a church in College Park, Ga., where he had once worked as a security guard.

* March 12, 2005: A man walked into the services of the Living Church of God in Milwaukee and open fired immediately, killing seven people.

* Oct. 5, 2003: A woman opened fire in Turner Monumental AME church in Kirkwood, east of Atlanta, killing the pastor and two others.