I am also pursuing an answer to this within the church bureaucracy since it is also a church matter.

I belong to an urban church in Austin, TX. We do outreach with the homeless on Saturdays.......... have for years. One of the Sunday School classes wanted to get some of the homeless involved in our church on Sunday so they invited a couple of guys to Sunday School. Long story short, some members feel threatened by the homeless people. One of the mentally ill homeless guys was found putting leaves in the orange juice (This is Texas so surely that is a Capital Offense : ) The Minister of Music went and got the police officer who directs traffic, had him remove this homeless guy on the Sabbath and filled out a restraining order prohibiting this man from ever coming back onto the church grounds.

In the Methodist church every local church must have a property deed that places it under the authority of thehistoric trust clause. The title requirement in the Discipline: "Titles to all real and personal, tangible and intangible property ... shall be held in trust for the United Methodist Church and subject to the provisions of its Discipline."

So the building isn't 'owned' by the local church but the church has quite a bit of say in what can occur within the building.

Can someone who does not own a building and is only employed by the 'busines' fill out a restraining order against another person?