Steven P. Bucci, served America for three decades as an Army Special Forces officer and top Pentagon official, is a Visiting Fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s Truluck Center for Leadership Development.

He also is a graduate of the U.S. Army War College, the Hellenic Army War College in Greece, and the Senior Seminar of the Department of State.

Bucci’s next assignment was as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for homeland defense and defense support to civil authorities. He was responsible for overseeing policy issues involving the Defense Domains (air, land, maritime, and cyber), National Guard domestic operational issues, domestic counterterrorism, readiness exercises, and response to natural and man-made disasters. He was the primary civilian overseer of U.S. Northern Command.

Bucci is an adjunct professor of leadership at George Mason University and a former associate professor of terrorism studies and cybersecurity policy at Long Island University.

James McGarvey has served as the Safety Director of a large Baptist Church, in Central Ohio for over fifteen years. He has over 25 years in Public Safety working as an EMS Dispatcher, Firefighter, EMT, Disaster Chaplain, Volunteer Officer for the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department, and is currently a First Responder/EMS and CRASE Instructor. He is a certified Crime Prevention Specialist who regularly works with law enforcement agencies and churches to assess safety and security needs through environmental design. An expert marksman and trained in executive protection, he has trained 1,000's of individuals in various aspects of public safety.

He has authored over 20 books, 8 of them bestselling, on the topic of church security and safety, church ministry, and church leadership. For over 40 years he has been actively involved with church ministries across the country, including serving in roles as youth pastor, associate pastor, and safety director.

He currently serves on the leadership team for Thrive Church in Central Ohio. He holds an undergraduate degree in Bible from Emmaus Bible College, an MBA in Marketing from Grand Canyon University, and a PhD in Religion from Centurion Bible College.

In 2018 he started the Church Safety Guys because he felt that there was little ministry focus in spiritually equipping and disciplining within church safety and security. He works full-time for the U.S. Defense Department. When he is not working, he enjoys spending time with his wife and four children.

Mike brings over three decades in Ministry & Church Leadership and 20+ years of experience in Operations, Safety, Security, Nonprofit Operations & Communications. Mike has served in Emergency Management where he worked on policy, procedures, preparedness, technology, public information, and launched their drone program. He served as a Deputy Director of their Emergency Response Team where he helped with volunteer operations, executive protection, and large scale security event management.

He also worked with Homeland Security and trained with law enforcement across the state on active shooter / active threat and emergency integrated response techniques.

Mike has served 7 years as an elected official and community leader of preparedness, emergency alert information, and crisis communications in a medium-sized community. He is currently living in Austin Texas where he serves as a volunteer with the Round Rock Police Department, as an Experience Advisor at a church plant, in Georgetown, Texas and as a coalition leader of nearly 100 Safety Leaders across Texas. Mike is a CRASE Instructor and trained in executive protection. Mike works full time as a Software Architect. Mike enjoys epic road trips with his wife and their three children.

John spent 7 years in the Army as an infantryman, served in Desert Storm, then spent 20 years as a police officer in Grand Rapids, MI. John is a Certified Crisis Intervention Specialist with the National Anger Management Association.

He founded GENTLE RESPONSE in 2016 after being asked to conduct a conflict deescalation class for church security. Today, John and his team work and train with churches, corporations, businesses, state agencies, and law enforcement.

Their goal is to teach conflict de-escalation concepts and skills to help others develop the knowledge and confidence to prevent a volatile situation from becoming a physically violent incident.

Founder and CEO of The Red Letter Project, Maddy found her passion for shooting during her time as a law enforcement specialist in the US Coast Guard. During and after her time in service, she completed her Masters degree oversees in the United Kingdom as the recipient of a Rotary Global Grant Scholarship. She is a 4x published author in addition to her shooting career.

Her goal is to continue to grow RLP as a mission based organization, using shooting as an avenue to help spread the gospel.

Maddy is certified as an instructor through multiple organizations, to include being a Training Counselor for the USCCA. She teaches full time at the Sharpshooters USA academy in addition to the occasional course out of state. She is an avid competitive shooter and looks to include more women in the sport.

In addition, Maddy attributes much of her teaching abilities to her background in competitive cage fighting, skydiving, bullriding, and river diving. Specifically, her passion for combat sports has led her to spread awareness of the importance of understanding how to better defend.

Dustin was born and raised in North East Tennessee where he met his wife Sarah before their Junior year of High School. After graduation he joined the Marine Corps where he served honorably for 9 years as an air traffic controller with two deployments to Afghanistan. After exiting the Marine Corps, Dustin entered full time ministry as an assistant pastor working with youth at Freedom Baptist church in Yuma, AZ.

After 3.5 years God called him to the Lead Pastorate of Liberty Baptist Church in Bristol, Ct. He and Sarah now have three children and serve together in ministry.

As the founder of the Men After God Movement, Dustin desires to see Men grow through content, connection, and coaching to become the men God made them to be for their wife, children, and community.