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Worship, their phone has been ringing off the hook. from new york to hawaii, churches call, wanting to learn how to protect themselves. >> we take people who have absolutely no experience, and we pride ourselves on really being able to hone these skills. >> reporter: in a six-day course, they say volunteers are taught defensive tactics modeled around professional security and law enforcement standards but tailored to challenges a church ministry could face, like thousand act with an unruly paris...

Is a gatekeeper. >> we have a responsibility to every single member that walks into a safe haven, that walk noosewalks into a place of worship, and wanting a place of peace to provide the protection. >> reporter: will and his dad check created the gatekeeper program more than a decade ago just outside of dallas. >> it was so hard in those early years to even get somebody to spend $20 on a subscription to our website. now we have thousands and thousands of churches that are part of our national o...