About Us
Zero 5 is made up of military veterans and/or first responders who have decades of experience in critical incident response, training, and building response teams. We take the training and real world experience from the situations that God has put us in through our lives and use them to prepare churches, teams, and individuals to be capable responders when bad stuff happens.
Mike Abernethy
Mike is the Director of Safety and Security for Central Baptist Round Rock. Utilizing his 12 years as a firefighter in the 13th largest department in the United States and his 6 years of experience in the US Coast Guard’s Deployable Specialized Forces and intelligence communities, Mike helped build Central’s Safety Ministry from the ground up. Mike’s experience includes deployments to Iraq (OIF 2009), Haiti (Operation Unified Response 2010), Texas Southern Border, involvement with his fire department’s Active Attack Rescue Task Force, and 8 years at one of the top 3 busiest fire stations in his department.
Mike has been married to the love of his life for 16 years and has three kids (ages 15, 13, and 9). He spends his free time being a taxi service to his kids, coaching them in their sports from the stands, and loving on his wife. Mike’s heart is for making church safety ministries a home for veterans and first responders in the church and for folks who don’t fit in with traditional church ministries.
Tyler Reece
Tyler Is currently a Safety team member at Central Baptist Round Rock. Utilizing his 2 years as a firefighter at one of the busiest departments in the state of Texas and his 7 and a half years in the Army and Coast Guard. Tyler was one of the early members to join his safety team and brought a lot of experiences with him, from firearms training, mind over matter resilience , and medical training to name a few. His experiences include Deployments to Iraq (OIF 2010)(Operation New Dawn 2010-2012), Afghanistan (OEF 2012), Antarctica (Operation Deep Freeze 2015-2016).
Tyler Is married to his wife Jennifer of 7 years and has one son and one on the way. He spends his free time with his wife and son and currently going to school to further his medical background.
Grant Flynn
Grant Flynn is currently a Safety Team Member at Central Baptist Round Rock. Grant is a 12 year Army veteran with a combat deployment to Iraq in 2006 and many years as his battalion firearms and explosives instructor. For over a decade he was the primary firearms instructor for one of Central Texas’ premier gun stores.
Grant is married with 3 children and has a tremendous gift and heart for making the world a safer place by training people how to defend themselves and their loved ones.