{"id":19754,"date":"2012-10-05T01:58:42","date_gmt":"2012-10-05T04:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=19754"},"modified":"2012-10-05T01:58:42","modified_gmt":"2012-10-05T04:58:42","slug":"former-army-chief-chaplain-calls-for-military-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/05\/former-army-chief-chaplain-calls-for-military-ministry\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Army Chief Chaplain Calls for Military Ministry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Chief of Army Chaplains MajGen (Ret) Doug Carver is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bpnews.net\/bpnews.asp?id=38772\">encouraging churches to engage in &#8220;military ministry&#8221;<\/a> for the troops returning from war:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;All of our veterans returning home from war require some level of re-integration,&#8221; Carver said. &#8220;This is where the local church can offer a powerful ministry to our veterans and their families.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Churches should do an inventory of the military <!--more-->veterans listed on their membership rolls &#8212; not just currently active or recently returning vets in the pews but older vets who may have served in World War II, Korea, Vietnam and Desert Storm. &#8220;If you have just one [veteran], you have an obligation to provide military ministry,&#8221; Carver said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As an integral part of society and many peoples&#8217; lives, churches are an important part of the reintegration of troops returning from war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Chief of Army Chaplains MajGen (Ret) Doug Carver is encouraging churches to engage in &#8220;military ministry&#8221; for the troops returning from war: &#8220;All of our veterans returning home from war require some level of re-integration,&#8221; Carver said. &#8220;This is where the local church can offer a powerful ministry to our veterans and their families.&#8221; Churches should do an inventory [&#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":[5284,667,2,10,171],"class_list":["post-19754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaplain","tag-chaplain","tag-douglas-carver","tag-military","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19754","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=19754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}