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Interview With Christian Clark: Creator of Secure The Church App

SemperVerus interviewed Christian Clark, owner and lead architect at Swell Development, LLC. He is also a broadly experienced volunteer on his megachurch security team. He is the creator of a fascinating and comprehensive new mobile app developed explicitly for church security teams and other church ministries where communication among volunteers is vital.

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From your experience as a volunteer church security team member, what is the need you’ve seen for creating an app that focuses on church safety and security?
As I served throughout the years on church security, I began to notice areas of deficiency in the way that church security was normally executed. There were many gaps in planning, communication, engagement, and visibility that created potential areas where church security could fail. Secure The Church aims to close those gaps.

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What is the Secure The Church app?
Many churches have already created security teams to help secure themselves from the various threats they face. Secure The Church is a software as a service (SaaS) application that allows churches of any size to take their security teams to the next level by helping them create and implement a strong security plan and by increasing volunteer communication, engagement, and visibility.

The Parking Lot: The First Part of a Security Incident

The International Protective Security Board (IPSB) is an independent, nonprofit entity devoted to promoting the protection industry’s interests by focusing on protective security trends, best practices, and professional development.

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With its Latin motto of “Vigilate” (keep watch or stay alert), “Semper Discentes” (always learning), and “Et Honorem” (and honor), it encompasses all public-facing sectors requiring security attention, including faith-based organizations.

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Its semiannual publication is The Close Protection & Security Journal. Volume 2, Issue 1 includes the article, “The Parking Lot: The First Part of a Security Incident” (PDF) by Greg Williams and Brian Marren of Arcadia Cognerati, the principles of which can be applicable for church security teams.

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It begins, “Before a school shooter can start killing, before a bank robber can pass a note to a teller, and before someone can rob a gas station, they have to pass through a parking lot. In the parking lot, the element of time and distance between the perpetrator and their victim already exists. You need to learn to exploit it to yield opportunity.”

Giffords Gun Law Scorecard Does Not Promote Public Safety

Larry Keane is senior vice president and general counsel of the National Shooting Sports Foundation, Inc. (NSSF), the firearm industry’s trade association. He is responsible for NSSF’s legal and government relations.

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His article, titled Giffords State Scorecards Wilts Under Data’s Light, clearly shows how anti-Second Amendment organizations irresponsibly skew information to sway public opinion into thinking gun laws are effective in deterring crime when in fact they are not.

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Here is the beginning of his article:

US Dept. of War Elevating Chaplaincy Corps Back to Spiritual Significance

US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth spoke via a Facebook and X (formerly Twitter) video Dec. 16, 2025 to announce immediate changes to directives given to military chaplains. He said George Washington’s original intent of establishing chaplains was that they were “to be the spiritual and moral backbone of our nation’s forces.” But he said that role has been degraded due to “an atmosphere of political correctness and secular humanism,” which has minimized chaplains to the role of “therapists, instead of ministers.”

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Watch the video and read the transcript below: