{"id":16827,"date":"2012-03-23T00:30:07","date_gmt":"2012-03-23T03:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=16827"},"modified":"2012-03-21T23:45:41","modified_gmt":"2012-03-22T02:45:41","slug":"us-chaplains-bring-resiliency-to-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/23\/us-chaplains-bring-resiliency-to-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"US Chaplains Bring Resiliency to Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two US Army chaplains, Chaplain (Col) John McGraw and Chaplain (Col) Jerry Lewis, recently took <a href=\"http:\/\/www.army.mil\/article\/75110\/U_S__Army_Africa_chaplains_teach_resiliency_in_Africa\/\">the Army&#8217;s resiliency mantra to Kinshasa<\/a> in the Democratic Republic of Congo.\u00a0 Their African hosts seemed to welcome the opportunity:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Chief of DRC Chaplains Col. Jeanne Paul Keela sees the emerging relationship between his organization and U.S. Army chaplains as <!--more-->a positive occurrence&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Congolese are very spiritual people. There has been civil war and conflict in this region for nearly two decades,&#8221; McGraw said. &#8220;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,&#8221; he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As has been noted before, US military chaplains do far more than lead religious services on Sunday morning.\u00a0 They can have a strategic impact on a US military mission many in the world don&#8217;t even know about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two US Army chaplains, Chaplain (Col) John McGraw and Chaplain (Col) Jerry Lewis, recently took the Army&#8217;s resiliency mantra to Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo.\u00a0 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<\/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":[88,5284,997,3069,2040,3068,2,10],"class_list":["post-16827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaplain","tag-army","tag-chaplain","tag-congo","tag-jeanne-paul-keela","tag-jerry-lewis","tag-john-mcgraw","tag-military","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16827","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=16827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}