{"id":23834,"date":"2013-07-10T00:15:52","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T03:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=23834"},"modified":"2016-11-26T01:18:02","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T04:18:02","slug":"holy-helo-delivers-chaplain-to-fleet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/10\/holy-helo-delivers-chaplain-to-fleet\/","title":{"rendered":"Holy Helo Delivers Chaplain to Fleet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An <a href=\"http:\/\/www.navy.mil\/submit\/display.asp?story_id=75170\">official Navy release<\/a> notes the travels of US Navy Chaplain (Cmdr) Daniel Mode, who is assigned to the carrier USS George Washington but visits other ships via the Navy&#8217;s &#8220;holy helo.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Destroyers often do not have chaplains permanently stationed on board and rely on command lay leaders to perform worship services. Lay leaders are volunteers appointed by the commanding officer who <!--more-->are trained by chaplains to serve the needs of a particular religious faith group. Lay leaders may conduct religious services, but may not exercise specific activities usually reserved for ordained clergy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As the article describes, the US Navy rightly recognizes the importance of faith both to Sailors and to the mission they accomplish &#8212; and the value that Chaplains bring to spiritual fitness and religious liberty.<\/p>\n<p>Now if they could just work out how to deliver chaplains to the deployed submarines&#8230;<\/p>\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>An official Navy release notes the travels of US Navy Chaplain (Cmdr) Daniel Mode, who is assigned to the carrier USS George Washington but visits other ships via the Navy&#8217;s &#8220;holy helo.&#8221; Destroyers often do not have chaplains permanently stationed on board and rely on command lay leaders to perform worship services. Lay leaders are volunteers appointed by the commanding [&#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":[5284,4114,1684,2,36,10,171],"class_list":["post-23834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaplain","tag-chaplain","tag-daniel-mode","tag-holy-helos","tag-military","tag-navy","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23834","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=23834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}