How has your church's approach to security issues changed since the New Life shooting in 2007?
• Nothing has changed. We don't worry about security issues.
• We worry about security issues, but we haven't changed our policies.
• We would like to change our policies, but we don't know how.
• We have made significant changes in our security policies in the last year.
CHURCH LIFE New Life After the Shootings On December 9, 2007, a gunman entered New Life Church in Colorado Springs and started shooting. Here's what happened that day and in the days since. an interview with Brady Boyd by Phil and Pam Brown
On Sunday morning Matthew Murray arrived at New Life Church in Colorado Springs, armed with an automatic rifle, two handguns, and 1,000 rounds of ammunition. Earlier he had entered the Youth With a Mission (YWAM) training center for missionaries near Denver and shot four of its staff members, killing two. He drove 65 miles south to 10,000-member New Life Church, where local police officers were directing traffic departing the morning's second service. He parked and waited. More …
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CHURCH LIFE New Life After the Shootings On December 9, 2007, a gunman entered New Life Church in Colorado Springs and started shooting. Here's what happened that day and in the days since. an interview with Brady Boyd by Phil and Pam Brown Leadership Journal, Summer 2008
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MINISTRY STAFF Apostles Today? Rediscovering the gift that leaves churches and well-connected pastors in its wake. by Skye Jethani Leadership Journal, Spring 2008
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