FIELDCRAFT — Field Security Training for Missionaries & Field Workers
by Covenant Defence
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Field security training program

Security training
built for the field

Practical preparation for missionaries, aid workers and the organisations behind them, shaped by life and ministry in the world's hardest places.

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5Mobile & device platforms
300+Hardening steps
25+Training modules
OfflineWorks anywhere
Inside FieldCraft

See how it works

Take a look at the program as your team will use it.

What's inside

One program for every stage of the journey

From preparation to return, everything a field worker or sending organisation needs.

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Field Readiness Assessment

Five steps that profile your destination, role, team structure and digital exposure, then turn all of it into a personalised risk score, a gap analysis and a pre-departure action plan you can actually work through.

  • Risk scoring across physical, digital, relational and operational dimensions
  • A pre-departure checklist generated from your own profile
  • Exportable report you can hand straight to your sending organisation
  • Surfaces the gaps now, while there's still time to close them
Core security

Device Hardening Guides

Step-by-step security checklists for iOS, Android, macOS, Windows and Linux, written in plain language for field workers who aren't technical specialists but still need real protection.

  • Complete platform guides with 300+ actionable security steps
  • Tiered configurations for baseline, elevated and high-risk environments
  • Progress tracking that shows exactly what's done and what's left
  • Every setting includes the exact menu path, no hunting required
Digital security

Private & Secure App Alternatives

Curated replacements for messaging, email, cloud storage, VPN, passwords and more, each one tested for real-world usability in low-bandwidth and high-surveillance environments. No technical background needed.

  • Category-by-category alternatives to mainstream apps that leak your data
  • Vetted for reliability where internet is slow, filtered or watched
  • Setup guides anyone on your team can follow
  • Covers messaging, email, file storage, VPN, passwords, maps and more
Intelligence

Country Intelligence Profiles

109 country threat assessments covering government surveillance capability, internet freedom, recent security incidents and Joshua Project data on unreached people groups. What you actually need to know before you go.

  • Current threat levels and surveillance infrastructure, country by country
  • Internet freedom scores, VPN legality and digital surveillance context
  • Recent security incidents affecting field workers and NGOs
  • Joshua Project integration: unreached people group data per country
Ministry training

Church Planting & Disciple Making Movements

A complete DMM framework, church planting principles and reproducible models for catalysing movements, from first discovery through to sustainable multiplication. Grounded in Scripture, tested in the field.

  • DMM core principles: discovery, obedience-based discipleship, rapid reproduction
  • Church planting models for pioneer, resistant and post-Christian contexts
  • Person of Peace identification, household evangelism and simple church structures
  • Movement frameworks, from first contact to fourth-generation churches
Cultural integration

Language Acquisition & Cultural Adaptation

Practical frameworks for moving from survival phrases to cultural fluency, with methods proven by cross-cultural workers learning unwritten languages, tonal languages and languages with almost no learning resources.

  • Staged roadmap: survival basics, functional fluency, then cultural depth
  • LAMP method (Language Acquisition Made Practical) and Growing Participator Approach
  • Strategies for languages with no textbooks, schools or online resources
  • Cultural frameworks: worldview, honour/shame and high-context communication
For sending organisations

Sending Org Hub

A dedicated security assessment and action plan framework for mission agencies, sending churches and sending organisations, built around the responsibility you carry for every person you send into the field.

  • Security assessment scaled to your org's size and field risk profile
  • Pre-deployment, in-field and repatriation protocols for every worker
  • Risk management tools for field directors responsible for team safety
  • Duty-of-care obligations, crisis response coordination and member care standards
The full library

Everything else you need

Specialised training, field skills and operational resources, all in the one program.

Before You Go Checklist

Device security, documents, emergency planning and local intelligence.

Scenario Training

Border crossings, device searches and crisis response. Practise before you need it.

Situational Awareness

Detect surveillance, read environments and spot threats early.

Comms Plan Builder

Secure channels, check-in schedules, escalation ladders and duress signals.

Hardware Guides

Secure phones, laptops, travel routers, security keys and portable power.

Social Media Security

How platforms expose field workers and which messengers are genuinely secure.

Emergency Response

Quick-reference cards for kidnapping, robbery, medical emergencies and evacuation.

Evangelism

Cross-cultural gospel communication, persons of peace and storying methods.

Contextual Theology

Worldview analysis, contextualisation and syncretism discernment.

Field Medical

Trauma care, tropical medicine and telemedicine for limited-access areas.

Children & Family

Third Culture Kids, marriage under field stress, safeguarding and repatriation.

Financial Sustainability

Biblical support raising, donor partnerships and long-term financial health.

Self-Care Assessment

Wellbeing across five domains, with early burnout signals and a personal plan.

Travel Advisories

Live advisories from the US State Dept, Smartraveller and the UK FCDO in one place.

Critical IncidentsComing soon

Verified incidents affecting field personnel, with what each one means.

Threat Actor Library

State services, criminal networks and militant groups: methods and detection.

Deep Dives

Research papers on surveillance, persecution and operational security.

Field Guides

Surveillance detection, border crossings and safe communication.

Who this is for

For those who go, and those who send them

Whether you're heading into the field or you're the church or organisation responsible for the people you send.

In the field

Going

  • Missionaries & church planters
  • Cross-cultural workers
  • Aid & development teams
  • Medical mission teams
  • Humanitarian NGO staff
At home base

Sending

  • Sending churches
  • Mission agencies & organisations
  • Mobilisation & training teams
  • Pre-field training coordinators
  • Mission pastors & elders

Your calling matters. So does your preparation.

The preparation you take with you shapes how long you stay, how well you serve and how safely you come home.

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