WHAT IS ISITE?
ISITE is a comprehensive church safety team training experience that incorporates realistic, scenario based training. Starting from our purpose and a theology of love and protection, to church safety team fundamentals, identifying threats and opportunities, Encountering Suspicious People, De-Escalation, Escorting Disruptive People, Engaging Combative People (if disengagement fails), and Active Killer Response, it’s designed to build your competency and confidence as you serve. Our goal is to love and protect God’s people, God’s way.
We also provide private fitness, firearm, and martial arts training.
WHAT IS ISITE?
ISITE is a comprehensive church safety team training experience that incorporates realistic, scenario based training. Starting from our purpose and a theology of love and protection, to church safety team fundamentals, identifying threats and opportunities, Encountering Suspicious People, De-Escalation, Escorting Disruptive People, Engaging Combative People (if disengagement fails), and Active Killer Response, it’s designed to build your competency and confidence as you serve. Our goal is to love and protect God’s people, God’s way.
Matt Martin
Founder, Husband, Father
WHY DID YOU START ISITE?
In the mid 2010s I noticed more and more reports of mass shootings. At schools, at Walmarts, nightclubs, and at churches. Motivated to learn how to protect my family and others, I purchased my first firearm, trained, and eventually joined the safety team at my church. As a person with no law enforcement or military background, I wanted to learn what I could do to be an asset to the team. I absorbed hundreds or maybe thousands of YouTube videos and attended any church safety team or active shooter response training that I could, but I felt very under equipped. As I looked for answers to difficult situations that I could find myself in, I didn’t find many good ones. With a few notable exceptions, most of the answers I could find were not from Christian sources.
So I went out and trained boxing, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Muay Thai, mixed martial arts, watched videos on de-escalation, paid for training on encountering armed people, did concealed carry shooting leagues, studied the Bible, got knocked out in a boxing match, and more. I am not an expert, but I am on a journey to learn how to do a good job of loving God, loving people, and protecting people. I created a curriculum based on the answers I’ve found and I’d like to share them with you to make you a better protector and to save you time and frustration. They could also save your, and your loved ones’, lives.
All of the curriculum I’ve put together is freely available to you on the ISITE website. I’d love for you to come and train with me. Regardless, I am so grateful for men and women like you who are willing to love and protect, and to lay down your life if necessary. May God bless you as you love Him and love people.