Missouri Firearms Training Rooted in Real-World Experience

Get the training you need. Build the confidence you want. Carry responsibly.

Practical, responsible firearms training taught by a law enforcement academy instructor, Strategos International contractor, firefighter, and medical first responder.

Register for a CCW ClassLearn More

What We Do

Clear Instruction. Practical Skills. Responsible Preparedness.

Tereo Training Solutions focuses on helping everyday people become better prepared for real-world emergencies. Wherever you find yourself, be prepared to stop the threat, protect your loved ones, and provide care for those in need.

Matt coaching at Rangemaster Class

What kind of training do you offer?

Church Security Training

Church Security Training

Tereo Training Solutions partners with Strategos International and Strategos Peacekeepers to provide churches with practical, professional safety and security training.

This training helps churches think clearly about how to protect their people while maintaining a welcoming and ministry-focused environment.

Areas of focus include:

  • Building and training effective safety teams

  • Understanding realistic threats and how to prevent them

  • Developing emergency action plans

  • Improving situational awareness and communication

  • Responding appropriately to disruptive or violent incidents

  • Integrating medical readiness and emergency response into security planning

Church security is not about creating fear or turning a place of worship into a fortress. It is about thoughtful preparation, responsible stewardship, and equipping volunteers and leaders with the skills and confidence to respond well if a crisis occurs.

We provide a number of training options for churches and houses of worship including Intruder Awareness and Response (IAR) for church staff and volunteers, as well as a comprehensive program for Armed Church Security teams. This training is provided as a contract instructor for Strategos International and Strategos Peacekeepers, bringing nationally recognized church security principles to local congregations.

Missouri CCW Classes

Unlock Your Right to Carry with Confidence at Tereo Training Solutions! Our Missouri CCW Classes offer comprehensive training tailored to meet the requirements of Missouri gun laws while equipping you with essential skills for responsible carry. Delve into the intricacies of Missouri gun laws and use-of-force regulations, ensuring you understand your rights and responsibilities as a concealed carrier.

Led by seasoned instructors, our classes focus on critical decision-making in real-life self-defense scenarios, empowering you to react effectively under pressure. Gain invaluable insights from in-depth analyses of past self-defense encounters, preparing you for potential threats you may encounter.

Additionally, learn the importance of handgun maintenance and care to ensure your firearm operates reliably when you need it most. Don’t settle for subpar training—choose Tereo Training Solutions for a comprehensive CCW experience that prioritizes your safety and legal compliance. Enroll today and take the first step toward confident and responsible concealed carry.

Successful completion of this course provides your certificate to apply for a Missouri Concealed Carry Weapons Permit (CCW.)

Enhanced Concealed Carry Skills

Enhanced Concealed Carry Skills

After completing a Missouri CCW class, many responsibly armed citizens realize they want more than the minimum required training. Your CCW class is a law class. Now it’s time to learn how to face a deadly encounter on the range.

This training is designed to help concealed carriers build greater confidence, competence, and decision-making ability beyond the basics.

Areas of focus include:

  • Improving draw stroke and presentation from concealment

  • Shooting accurately under time and accountability standards

  • Movement and use of cover

  • One-handed shooting and malfunction management

  • Defensive accuracy at realistic distances

  • Decision-making and threat identification under stress

  • Essential carry gear
  • The “Foundational Five”
  • Less Lethal Options

The goal is not speed for the sake of speed, but control, accountability, and responsible skill development that matches with sane, sober, moral, prudent thinking decision making that holds up when it matters.

Because carrying a firearm daily demands ongoing practice and thoughtful training—not just a one-time class.

Home Defense Training

Home Defense Training

Being prepared at home is just as important as being prepared in public.

This training focuses on how to responsibly protect yourself and your family inside your own home, including:

  • Choosing a home defense weapon

  • Quick firearm access and safe staging

  • Developing a home defense plan

  • Hardening your home as a target
  • Home medical kits and planning
  • Understanding defensive positioning and movement

  • Identifying safe rooms and fields of fire

  • Communicating with family members during an emergency

  • Knowing when to hold position and when to move

Home defense is not about tactics seen in movies. It’s about simple, practical decisions that protect the people you care about while minimizing unnecessary risk.

Because the place you are most likely to face an emergency is the place you spend the most time — your home.

Armed Civilian Response to Active Attacks

Armed Civilian Response to Active Attacks

In rare but extreme situations, armed civilians may find themselves present during an active violent attack. Knowing how to think, move, and make responsible decisions in those moments is critical.

This training focuses on:

  • Understanding the realities of active attack events

  • Decision-making under extreme stress

  • Quick response to stop the threat
  • Movement, communication, and use of cover

  • Avoiding common mistakes armed civilians make in chaotic situations

  • Identifying threats while protecting innocent people

  • Interacting safely with responding law enforcement

The emphasis is not on tactics or heroics, but on judgment, restraint, and responsible action during rapidly unfolding events.

Students learn how to think clearly in confusion, prioritize the protection of life, respond quickly and decisively to end the threat, and avoid actions that could create additional danger.

Because in these situations, what you don’t do can be just as important as what you do.

About Matt Stidham

Firearms Instructor

Tereo Training Solutions is led by Matt Stidham.

Matt holds a host of instructor certifications from Rangemaster, Strategos Internatinal, Last Resort, NRA, and the Missouri Department of Public Safety. Matt is a contract instructor for Strategos International and Strategos Peacekeepers, working with churches and organizations on safety and security training across the country. As a pastor, Matt understands the needs and practical application of faith based security.

He is licensed by the Missouri Department of Public Safety as a Specialist Instructor and serves as a contractor Firearms and Defensive Tactics Instructor for the Drury Law Enforcement Academy, training future law enforcement officers in practical use-of-force skills.

Matt also serves his community as a firefighter and medical first responder, bringing real-world emergency experience into every class he teaches.

With over 20 years of experience in education and instruction, Matt’s classes are clear, practical, and built for real understanding.

Matt Stidham, owner of Tereo Training Solutions, with Tom Givens of Rangemaster.

“ They understand that defense education is more than just pulling the trigger.“

Tereo Training Blog

Protector’s Mindset, Medical Readiness, & Emergency Preparedness

Real preparedness is more than owning a gun.

Through our blog and resources, we help individuals, churches, schools, and businesses better understand:

  • How to improve personal and organizational security

  • Why medical training and preparedness matters

  • How to prepare now to think clearly and act decisively during emergencies

  • What responsible preparedness looks like in everyday life

These insights come from real experience in law enforcement training, church security work, and emergency response.

Train Hard, Stay Humble: Why a Teachable Spirit is Your Most Powerful Weapon

The best students aren’t the ones who know the most — they’re the ones most willing to learn. For those who don't know me well, I've been a teacher/coach/instructor for a little over two decades in a number of different settings. Whether it's teaching music lessons,...

Why You Should Get a Missouri CCW License Instead of Relying on Constitutional Carry

Why You Should Get a Missouri CCW License Instead of Relying on Constitutional Carry Missouri is a constitutional carry state, meaning law-abiding citizens can carry a concealed firearm without a permit. However, just because you can carry without a permit doesn’t...

Why Schools Need Armed Protection Against Violence

Here is a reminder of why schools (and churches) need good, sane, sober, moral people who are armed and willing to protect others. You may not have even heard it reported on the news because it doesn't really match the narrative the media creates, but there was a...

Why Tereo Training Solutions

Get trained. Get confident. Be responsible.

  • Instruction from a law enforcement academy instructor

  • Real-world perspective from a firefighter and medical first responder

  • Experience training churches through Strategos International

  • Clear, structured teaching from a lifelong educator

  • Emphasis on safety, legality, and responsibility — not hype

Training here is professional, practical, and purpose-driven.

Matt coaching at Rangemaster Class