Demand for Church Security Seminar High in Wake of Shooting; Texas Megachurch to Host a Second

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(Photo: Facebook)A scene from inside the 41,000-member Prestonwood Baptist Church in Plano, Texas.

Hundreds of church leaders from across the United States and from all over the denominational spectrum filed into Pastor Jack Graham’s Prestonwood Baptist megachurch in Plano, Texas, on Tuesday for a free seminar on church security, a conference that was in such high demand they had to schedule more than one.

Mike Buster, Prestonwood’s executive pastor, told The Christian Post in an interview that his church was expecting as many as 700 people to show up for Tuesay’s seminar and that the church had to schedule a second seminar for next Tuesday, Dec. 12, because of the great demand in the wake of the deadliest church shooting in American history that took place about four hours down the road in Sutherland Springs in early November.

“We have never done this before. This is obviously a response to what had taken place in South Texas and we always had churches wanting to know how Prestonwood does what we do. We just wanted to be a resource,” he said.

“We are partnering with the Texas Southern Baptist Convention in this but this is not just for Baptist churches. We’ve got Catholic, Methodist, Lutheran, Spanish, Korean and different language churches. We wanted to do something to…

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