{"id":20410,"date":"2012-12-07T01:43:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-07T04:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=20410"},"modified":"2012-12-07T01:43:40","modified_gmt":"2012-12-07T04:43:40","slug":"returning-soldiers-in-need-of-soul-repair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/07\/returning-soldiers-in-need-of-soul-repair\/","title":{"rendered":"Returning Soldiers in Need of &#8220;Soul Repair&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Retired US Army Chief Chaplain (MajGen) Douglas Carver, now the executive director of the Southern Baptist North American Mission Board, recently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bpnews.net\/bpnews.asp?id=39198\">addressed a community gathering<\/a> and encouraged local ministries to engage troops as they return from war.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Treat them with dignity and respect because you don&#8217;t know what they have gone through&#8230;&#8221;\u00a0 The church pew can be a lonely place for a solder, Carver observed. &#8220;We need to go to them. We need to connect <!--more-->our troops to the community,&#8221; he said, noting, &#8220;The power of isolation is very destructive. Troops are isolated from the community.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Military chaplains have long connected with and relied upon para-church and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/veterans-day-is-every-day-for-military-ministries-84898\/\">other external organizations<\/a>, and troops benefit from these groups who lend their support.<\/p>\n<p>The support provided military chaplains is extensive, but due to the vast demands and limited resources, they can&#8217;t do everything.\u00a0 The military continues to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theleafchronicle.com\/article\/20121017\/NEWS01\/310170036\/On-off-post-religious-leaders-unite-for-soldiers-families\">rely on the community for support<\/a> &#8212; and as these <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/28\/general-officer-west-point-colonel-highlight-religious-conference\/\">helping groups show<\/a>, the community continues to provide it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"smallfont\">With reference to <a href=\"http:\/\/armychaplaincy.com\/onoff-post-religious-leaders-unite-for-fort-campbell-soldiers-families\/\">ArmyChaplaincy.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retired US Army Chief Chaplain (MajGen) Douglas Carver, now the executive director of the Southern Baptist North American Mission Board, recently addressed a community gathering and encouraged local ministries to engage troops as they return from war. &#8220;Treat them with dignity and respect because you don&#8217;t know what they have gone through&#8230;&#8221;\u00a0 The church pew can be a lonely place [&#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":[88,5284,667,2,2344],"class_list":["post-20410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaplain","tag-army","tag-chaplain","tag-douglas-carver","tag-military","tag-southern-baptist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20410","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=20410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}