How's your Sunday going? For the members and attendees of CrossPointe Community Church in Wayne, MI, theirs was a harrowing one. A potential mass shooting was thwarted by a quick-thinking deacon and a quick-acting armed security guard. The church was holding a special service highlighting the church's vacation bible school program with roughly 150 people in attendance, among that number, a larger than usual number of children.
Congregants heard noise outside the building, but assumed it was construction-related. Only when the security guard quickly instructed them to evacuate did they recognize the noise they heard was coming from a man with a gun:
A suspected active shooter was killed at a Wayne church, according to police.
The Wayne Police Department responded to reports of an active shooter at CrossPointe Community Church on Sunday, June 22, 2025, morning.
Police said when officers got to the church they determined that a security guard for the church shot and killed the suspect. They said one person was also shot in the leg.
The church is located on Glenwood Road, between South Wayne and South Newburgh roads.
Wayne police are asking people to avoid the area as officers are still investigating the shooting.
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More details have been revealed about how the two men helped mitigate the attack:
A security guard shot and killed an active shooter around 11 a.m. Sunday at a suburban Detroit church after a member ran the shooter over in a Ford F-150 truck, according to the church and police.
CrossPointe Community Church Senior Pastor Bobby Kelly Jr. said a deacon ran the shooter over, giving a security guard time to shoot the armed attacker outside the church, located at 36125 Glenwood Road in the city of Wayne.
"He was run over by one of our members who saw this happening when he was coming into church," Kelly said.
Pastor Kelly said the attacker never entered the building, although several shots were fired into the church. This shooter was intent on creating maximum damage, and what greater damage is there than the deliberate murder of innocent children? Instead, maximum damage was done to him--an immediate reaping for what he chose to sow. The security guard who took the suspect down was shot in the leg in the process, but no one else in the congregation was injured.
Many wise congregations and faith centers have accepted the reality that even though they seek to create a safe and welcoming environment for all, there are those who wish to take advantage of this and do great harm, especially to children. According to Pastor Kelly, the members of CrossPointe Community Church started their security team roughly a decade ago because of the violence they saw being committed at other places of worship around the United States.
"We are sitting ducks to someone who wants to come and do harm," Kelly said.
One of the churches I attended in California was also laser-focused on ensuring the safety of our congregation. The member-staffed volunteer security force was armed and policed the parameter of the property, remained stationed in the church lobby during services, and had men stationed in front of the children's center. My church in Alabama has members of the local police force keep watch inside the property and outside, as well as in front of the children's center.
The past decade has sadly seen an escalation in violence against people of faith, as well as houses of worship and faith centers. The 2019 shooting in Texas at the West Freeway Church of Christ could have had a bigger body count had it not been for Jack Wilson, an armed and highly trained congregant who took the shooter down. The 2023 mass shooting at Geneva Presbyterian Church in Laguna Woods, CA, was focused on a soft target in a gun-control state.
Then there are the horrific attacks on Jews: In May, Israeli Embassy staffer Sarah Milgrim and her boyfriend, Yaron Lischinsky were gunned down after an event at the Capitol Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., and the June terror attack against a pro-Israel rally in Boulder, CO, where a pro-"Palestine" perpetrator threw Molotov cocktails into the crowd, injuring six people. It behooves faith leaders to not just be on alert, but to implement security measures to protect their people and property, while being prepared to take down perpetrators who seek to do them harm.
We live in the age of FAFO. Too many evil actors have messed, and continue to mess around with the goal of creating chaos and taking as many lives as they can in their wake. Thank God that some of them are finding out that common sense, sober-minded, and well-armed individuals are no longer allowing carnage to happen just because it is in the mind of a killer to bring it to fruition.
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