{"id":10930,"date":"2011-04-26T02:30:47","date_gmt":"2011-04-26T07:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=10930"},"modified":"2011-04-25T23:41:43","modified_gmt":"2011-04-26T04:41:43","slug":"military-chaplains-serve-even-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/26\/military-chaplains-serve-even-at-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Military Chaplains Serve, Even at Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most people can understand the need for military Chaplains when they think of Soldiers deployed to a combat zone, separated from their spiritual resources.\u00a0 A North Dakota National Guard unit, activated to help fight local flooding, demonstrated the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/news\/69171\/ministry-fly-national-guards-office-chaplain-reaches-out-flood-fighters-duty\">need for Chaplains even locally<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Because the guardsmen have been activated for an emergency, it can be hard to find times to hold church services and gatherings. Guardsmen work 12-hour shifts, so many simply don\u2019t have the energy for extra activities.<\/p>\n<p>To make up for this, chaplains deliver daily devotionals <!--more-->to the guardsmen at their duty locations so they can still have spiritual support, even if they can\u2019t make it to a church service. Chaplains have even delivered Bibles on MP3 so guardsmen can listen while on breaks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt really is ministry on the fly,\u201d [Chaplain (Capt) Brock] Sailer said. \u201cWe have to find them, be it at meal times or helping them with their jobs, so we can work and talk at the same time.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Chaplain Sailer also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/news\/69325\/easter-marked-while-duty-national-guardsmen\">held Easter services<\/a> for the activated Guardsmen this past weekend.\u00a0 The services were also attended by MajGen David Sprynczynatyk, the North Dakota adjutant general, and\u00a0Command SgtMaj Daniel Job, the state&#8217;s\u00a0senior enlisted leader.<\/p>\n<p>The US military serves the Nation in many ways, and Chaplains stand ready to protect religious freedom and free exercise no matter what way that may be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most people can understand the need for military Chaplains when they think of Soldiers deployed to a combat zone, separated from their spiritual resources.\u00a0 A North Dakota National Guard unit, activated to help fight local flooding, demonstrated the need for Chaplains even locally: Because the guardsmen have been activated for an emergency, it can be hard to find times to [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1724,5284,1726,1725,2,1723,10,171],"class_list":["post-10930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaplain","tag-brock-sailer","tag-chaplain","tag-daniel-job","tag-david-sprynczynatyk","tag-military","tag-north-dakota-national-guard","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}