{"id":23695,"date":"2013-07-02T01:42:43","date_gmt":"2013-07-02T04:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=23695"},"modified":"2016-11-26T01:20:55","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T04:20:55","slug":"chaplains-support-guard-supporting-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/02\/chaplains-support-guard-supporting-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Chaplains Support Guard Supporting Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the Guard <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/news\/107417\/chaplains-aid-guardsmen-during-tornado-aftermath\">deploys to support a disaster area<\/a>, US military chaplains deploy to support them.\u00a0 Yes, there are often churches or pastors in the area, but the chaplains are focused on the military men and women, and are uniquely trained and experienced to help them accomp lish their mission:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cAs chaplains we work as a ministry of presence\u201d said Chaplain (Capt.) Jeremy Dunn&#8230;\u201cRight now we are filled with a sense of purpose: to help those both physically drained and spiritually shaken.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No matter where US troops go, their spiritual support, and <!--more-->their ability to freely exercise their faith, goes with them.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I\u2019m not just a counselor, not just someone who does counseling in an office. I bring the faith component to the discussion. There is and old saying that we bring God to soldiers and soldiers to God,\u201d Jordan said. \u201cWhen soldiers and Airmen talk to me they know they can have a faith perspective. It doesn\u2019t have to be my faith and we don\u2019t have to share the same faith, but they know it comes from a faith perspective.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-share=\"true\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-size=\"small\" data-action=\"like\" data-layout=\"standard\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>ADVERTISEMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><!-- blogpost --><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-slot=\"2728423835\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6450825356098669\"><\/ins><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the Guard deploys to support a disaster area, US military chaplains deploy to support them.\u00a0 Yes, there are often churches or pastors in the area, but the chaplains are focused on the military men and women, and are uniquely trained and experienced to help them accomp lish their mission: \u201cAs chaplains we work as a ministry of presence\u201d said [&#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":[134,5284,4093,171],"class_list":["post-23695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaplain","tag-air-force","tag-chaplain","tag-jeremy-dunn","tag-religious-freedom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23695","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=23695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}