{"id":12452,"date":"2011-08-09T02:00:09","date_gmt":"2011-08-09T07:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=12452"},"modified":"2011-08-08T02:22:33","modified_gmt":"2011-08-08T07:22:33","slug":"national-guard-chaplain-preaches-at-0245","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/09\/national-guard-chaplain-preaches-at-0245\/","title":{"rendered":"National Guard Chaplain Preaches at 0245"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US Army Chaplain (1Lt) Daryl Thul has been supporting the National Guard Soldiers who have been working 24\/7 on flood duty in Minot, North Dakota.\u00a0 He&#8217;s made a special effort to meet the spiritual needs of the night shift, which is often sleeping during traditional religious service times.<\/p>\n<p>So he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/news\/74646\/minnesota-chaplain-provides-popular-night-time-ministry\">preaches a Protestant service 0245<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Attendance is good because Thul, and his assistant, Pfc. Matthew O&#8217;Brien, take the service to the troops.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I go to the soldiers <!--more-->and airmen for them to get their faith,&#8221; Thul said. &#8220;I do a Protestant service. I&#8217;m not here to proselytize. I&#8217;m here to help them worship.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thul has an interesting perspective on preaching to the troops:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Children get the watered-down version,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We should teach adults the whole message. As chaplain, I can give the same message as in a church. The difference is, the highest rating in the church is PG. In uniform, I can give that story an R rating. I&#8217;m able to use the entire spectrum of Bible stories.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>US military operations around the globe often work on a 24-hour schedule.\u00a0 That a Chaplain would go out of his way to minister in the wee hours of the morning is a testament to the spiritual support the US military tries to provide for its troops, no matter where (or when) they are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Army Chaplain (1Lt) Daryl Thul has been supporting the National Guard Soldiers who have been working 24\/7 on flood duty in Minot, North Dakota.\u00a0 He&#8217;s made a special effort to meet the spiritual needs of the night shift, which is often sleeping during traditional religious service times. So he preaches a Protestant service 0245. Attendance is good because Thul, [&#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":[38,5284,96,2063,2067,2,2065,2064,2066,10,171],"class_list":["post-12452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaplain","tag-chapel","tag-chaplain","tag-christian","tag-daryl-thul","tag-matthew-obrien","tag-military","tag-minnesota","tag-minot","tag-national-guard","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12452","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=12452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}