Case Study: United Methodist Church of the Resurrection achieves centralized, scalable campus security and faster incident response with Verkada

How the Nation’s Largest Methodist Church Manages Site Visibility & Security Across 5 Campuses

United Methodist Church of the Resurrection, the nation’s largest Methodist church with roughly 19,000 members, 13,000 average weekly attendees, and five campuses totaling 600,000 sq. ft., faced limited site visibility and fragmented, aging NVR systems that made it hard to scale coverage, access usable footage, and control unpredictable maintenance costs. After a high‑profile parking‑lot incident highlighted poor video quality and difficult footage access, the church selected Verkada and replaced more than 60 NVR‑reliant cameras with Verkada’s hybrid cloud camera solution.

Verkada’s plug‑and‑play hybrid cloud cameras with solid‑state storage centralized monitoring (viewable on a single screen), added computer‑vision search filters, and enabled easy sharing of live or historical footage via SMS, email, or direct link. The deployment let the church quickly scale coverage across all five campuses, reduce blindspots, give staff and volunteers mobile access to live feeds, move from burning DVDs to instant evidence sharing, and isolate incidents in seconds—cutting response time significantly while lowering ongoing maintenance risk thanks to Verkada’s transparent pricing and 10‑year warranty.

United Methodist Church of the Resurrection

Brett Leathers

Associate Director of Safety & Security