{"id":14271,"date":"2011-12-23T01:13:28","date_gmt":"2011-12-23T04:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=14271"},"modified":"2011-12-23T01:13:28","modified_gmt":"2011-12-23T04:13:28","slug":"chaplain-followed-unique-path-from-africa-to-us-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/23\/chaplain-followed-unique-path-from-africa-to-us-army\/","title":{"rendered":"Chaplain Followed Unique Path from Africa to US Army"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US Army Chaplain (Maj) David Waweru followed an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.army.mil\/article\/69663\/For_one_Kenyan__military_service_a_testimony_of_faith\/\">unusual path to become a chaplain<\/a>.\u00a0 He grew up in Kenya, 20 miles west of Nairobi.\u00a0 His interest in the United States came from his interaction with American ministries, specifically, Campus Crusade for Christ:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The job that really stands out to me is when I worked for Campus Crusade for Christ,&#8221; Waweru said. &#8220;This job stands out to me because that is when I had a lot of time with American missionaries, and I believe that is where my interest in coming to the United States began.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>His work with Campus Crusade encouraged him to become <!--more-->a minister for the Anglican church in Kenya.<\/p>\n<p>He initially served in Kenya before coming to the United States to pursue a Masters at Princeton.\u00a0 There, he met an Army chaplain; when Waweru graduated, he was commissioned a chaplain in the US Army in 1994.<\/p>\n<p>Though his childhood was a bit different than most soldiers, his desires to serve and support is just as strong:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The chaplain wants soldiers to know if they need anything, he is here to help them.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n&#8220;I offer encouragement and insight based on my experiences,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I encourage soldiers to work on their relationships while they are away from their families, and I encourage them to be spiritually fit.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Chaplain Waweru is currently serving in Afghanistan.\u00a0 It is his third combat deployment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Army Chaplain (Maj) David Waweru followed an unusual path to become a chaplain.\u00a0 He grew up in Kenya, 20 miles west of Nairobi.\u00a0 His interest in the United States came from his interaction with American ministries, specifically, Campus Crusade for Christ: &#8220;The job that really stands out to me is when I worked for Campus Crusade for Christ,&#8221; Waweru [&#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":[58,2491,88,69,5284,96,2490,2465,2,10,171],"class_list":["post-14271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaplain","tag-afghanistan","tag-anglican","tag-army","tag-campus-crusade","tag-chaplain","tag-christian","tag-david-waweru","tag-kenya","tag-military","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14271","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=14271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}