High Risk Missions Training

Operation Mordecai offers high quality physical, mental, and spiritual training to anyone burdened to make a difference for Christ. We work with youth and mature believers in encouraging them to take any or all of the required steps to bring the gospel of our Lord and Savior to the uttermost parts of the earth and return.

Do you have the burden to reach souls for Christ? Do you have what it takes to go to the uttermost environs of the world to bring the Light to those living in darkness? Let us help you find out and humbly train you up in the way you should go.

3-Phase Training Approach:
1. Three-day Training Excursion into difficult terrain. Specifically designed to push candidates safely outside their comfort levels, mentally challenge them, and encourage them to allow the Holy Spirit to shift spiritual paradigms. This promotes massive spiritual and emotional growth through hardship and practical biblical applications.

2. Three-week Comprehensive Training Course. This extensive course safely pushes students to their physical, mental, and spiritual limits while expert cadre provide them with practical skills required for 3rd world living on the mission field. Survival & Bushcraft skills, Personal & Corporate Security skills, Wilderness Medical skills, and bible driven Mission Ethos training is provided and honed throughout this tough 21-day course.

3. Mission Deployment Opportunities. All of the skills and knowledge in the world are completely vain if they are not applied towards the glory of God. In this phase Operation Mordecai cadre escort the operators on real-world missions trips to locations such as Sierra Leone in order to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ. The operators use their hard earned skills and knowledge to survive, flourish, preach the gospel, and return with honor.

Course Requirements:
3-day Training Excursion: $75/candidate. Ages 14 & up. Candidates are required to possess a basic level of physical fitness (carry 40 lbs over rough terrain, perform 20 pushups, run a mile without stopping, etc). Candidates are required to provide their own basic camping gear according to a provided packing list.

3-Week Comprehensive Course:
Approx. $1,500/Student. Ages 18 & up (16 with a waiver). Students will be required to have a moderate level of physical fitness. Students are required to provide their own gear according to a provided packing list, as well as all travel expenses to the training camp.

Mission Deployment:
Cost determined by mission location/situation; approx. $4,000. Ages 18 & up. Operators will be required to have successfully graduated the 3-week Comprehensive Course (or provide applicable experience). Operators are required to provide their own gear according to a provided packing list. All travel accommodations are scheduled and secured by Operation Mordecai Travel Department.

Missions Recovery

The battle of missions requires extensive times of recovery from the often difficult deployments overseas. Missionaries are seen as superheroes, when in reality, they are ordinary people like the rest of us. Both short term and long term missionaries typically lack the resources or opportunity to rest. They come back for furlough only to launch into a year of traveling across the country reporting to supporters, seeking to show fruit from their labors. They have just spent months or years in a different culture, learning a different language, eating different food, developing different relationships, setting up a different home, and gaining different friends. Some have even experienced extensive political unrest or war, not to mention the fierce spiritual battle.

Jesus Himself spent extended times away from the crowds to commune and refresh with His Father in Heaven. He disappeared at the times when He was most wanted by the mob. If Jesus needed recovery and time with His Father, we must realize that missionaries, people on the front lines, need protected time to reconnect with their Father, along with prioritized rest.

Operation Mordecai seeks to provide the recovery needed for missionaries. We do this first by hosting handpicked missionaries who are facing life changes, ministry transition, family needs, or are just in desperate need of R&R. We also offer group missionary retreats both in the US and internationally that include informal and relaxed workshops with experienced speakers along with trained counselors. Having experienced many of these difficulties ourselves, we are passionate to provide opportunities for missionaries to get away, rest, and reconnect with God and the mission He has for them.

Church Security Seminar

Our most often taught course is the 7–8-hour church security seminar. In this course we will cover crucial security concepts that prepare church and security team members to take a proactive approach to protecting the congregation while maintaining focus on loving and ministering to people.

Our curriculum covers a wide variety of issues. We cover “soft skills” such as effective situational awareness and interacting with potential concerns as well as “hard skills” such effective restraining and controlling techniques. We review advanced concepts such as Left of Bang and predatory behavior. Our training also offers nationally recognized USCCA certification.

Finally, we conclude the seminar with live scenario training where we take a crawl, walk, run approach to dealing with threats to the congregation in the church environment.

Our hope is that those who are willing to don the mantle of protectors and become the first line of defense will also understand their unique responsibility as the first line of offense.

Handgun Training

We offer nationally recognized USCCA certified training in Concelled Carry and Self Defense as well as Countering the Mass Shooter Threat. We understand that many church members in the US practice concealed handgun carry. We also know that the highest danger to an armed church security team may very well be its own armed members. Responding to a potential armed threat in a church auditorium crowded with people presents an extremely dynamic environment to an armed responder. We strive to provide realistic understanding of armed conflict and tools to help your members be safe and effective should the need ever arise to employ a handgun in self-defense.