The State Chaplain in the Minnesota Air National Guard participated in a traditional “changing of the stole” as Army Chaplain (Col) John Morris passed the stole to Air Force Chaplain (LtCol) Tim Martenson, Air Force chaplain.

The Minnesota National Guard command chaplain’s stole symbolizes the pastoral responsibility to perform and provide religious support to soldiers, airmen and their families in peacetime and during war. In receiving the stole, the incoming command chaplain assumes the charge of providing spiritual and technical leadership for the Minnesota National Guard Religious Support Team (RST).

The article notes Chaplain Martenson is the state’s first Air Force chaplain.

Both chaplains careers have taken them across the country and around the world while always living by their service’s mottoes: the Army’s “For God and Country” and the Air Force’s “Freedom, Faith, Ministry.”

U.S. Army National Guard photo by Army Sgt. Johnny Angelo.

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