In recent years there has been an alarming upward spike in the number of church fraud and embezzlement incidents.  But surprisingly, given this epidemic, few churches are taking proactive steps to ward off predators.  The reasons given are many and varied but most offer no more protection than the Peanuts character Linus’ security blanket. 

Each week, this blog will be updated with a description of another “security blanket” churches wrap themselves in thinking they are protected from fraud.  Be looking for Security Blanket #1 – “It could never happen here…”