Two US Army chaplains, Chaplain (Col) John McGraw and Chaplain (Col) Jerry Lewis, recently took the Army’s resiliency mantra to Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo.  Their African hosts seemed to welcome the opportunity:

Chief of DRC Chaplains Col. Jeanne Paul Keela sees the emerging relationship between his organization and U.S. Army chaplains as a positive occurrence…

“The Congolese are very spiritual people. There has been civil war and conflict in this region for nearly two decades,” McGraw said. “DRC chaplains are great pastors and preachers, yet they want to know more about improving their ministry with soldiers and the areas of pastoral care,” he said.

As has been noted before, US military chaplains do far more than lead religious services on Sunday morning.  They can have a strategic impact on a US military mission many in the world don’t even know about.