Training, scheduling, emergency procedures, and incident reporting for volunteer church safety teams. Built with a real team, for the way Sunday mornings really go.
No credit card to start. Set up in an afternoon, not a quarter.
Most safety teams run on a group text, a binder in the office, and whoever remembers to show up. Here's what the same morning looks like when the team has one place to look.
Three services, three posts each. One gap at 9:45. She posts a coverage request from her phone before she's out of the driveway.
Everyone's phone buzzes. Allen taps "I'll cover this." The schedule updates itself. Rick gets a note that he's covered.
A greeter recognizes the face from an active lookout. He doesn't approach. He opens the procedure card and calls the lead on channel 1.
Subject description, what was said, who was notified, photos. Timestamped, attributed, and impossible to quietly edit later. Ready for insurance if it's ever needed.
Not a camera system. Not a background-check vendor. The layer that runs the people — from a volunteer's first day to the report that protects the church years later.
Seventeen modules with lessons, quizzes, and printable certificates. Medical response, de-escalation, active threat, lost child, fire, severe weather, bomb threat, and more.
Twenty-three emergency procedure cards written for a phone screen under pressure, in English and Spanish. Facility maps, AED locations, assembly points, and a drill calendar that tracks what's due.
Service scheduling with minimum-coverage rules, coverage requests the whole team sees, and push notifications that reach people whether or not the app is open.
Incident reports that can't be deleted or silently changed. Photo uploads. Team acknowledgment. Lookout alerts with photos that show on every dashboard until resolved.
Every procedure and every training module traces back to a published federal, medical, or legal source. Nothing was invented for the app. If your insurance carrier or an attorney asks where a protocol came from, there's an answer.
Several states grant civil immunity to volunteer security personnel at religious organizations — but only when the team isn't grossly negligent. The difference between a team that's protected and one that isn't often comes down to whether anyone can prove the volunteers were trained, the drills were run, and the incident was documented.
A group text and a binder can't prove that. A timestamped training record, a drill log, and an immutable incident report can.
Most churches already pay more than this across three or four tools that each cover a piece of the job. Pay annually and get two months free.
No, and it isn't trying to. Those tools run your services and your membership database. Watchman runs the safety team — the training, the posts, the procedures, and the reports. Most churches use it alongside whatever they already have.
Only signed-in members of your team. Every record is protected at the database level by who's logged in, not just by what the screen shows. Incident reports are visible to the team; restricted ones are visible only to leads and admins. Nothing is searchable from the public internet.
Yes. Each church runs in its own isolated database. You can export your roster, training records, and incident reports at any time, and if you leave, the data goes with you.
No. They open a link on their phone and add it to the home screen. It runs full-screen like any other app, sends push notifications, and the emergency procedures work with no signal.
An afternoon. Enter your roster, upload your floor plan, answer a short list of church-specific questions (where your AEDs are, where you assemble after an evacuation), and send invites. The training and procedures are ready the moment you sign in.
It was built with a working church safety team and every procedure cites its source. We recommend having your insurance carrier or a church security consultant review your church's customized procedures before you drill them, and the app makes that review easy to hand over.
Twenty minutes. We'll walk through a Sunday in the app, show you the training and the incident report flow, and answer whatever your pastor or elders will ask. If it's not the right fit, we'll say so.