{"id":2821,"date":"2010-01-04T00:30:16","date_gmt":"2010-01-04T08:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=2821"},"modified":"2010-01-03T23:12:43","modified_gmt":"2010-01-04T07:12:43","slug":"christian-military-wives-provide-mutual-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/04\/christian-military-wives-provide-mutual-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian Military Wives Provide Mutual Support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A local paper covered the social support system of Christian Military Wives, a ministry of the Christian Military Fellowship\u00a0(see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianfighterpilot.com\/links.htm\">links<\/a>).\u00a0 The article recounts the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.starnewsonline.com\/article\/20091215\/ARTICLES\/912154002\/1004?p=1&amp;tc=pg\">challenges of the wives<\/a> left behind by husbands deploying for multiple combat tours&#8211;in one case, four times in five years.\u00a0 Besides providing a spiritual resource for like-minded wives, the group also helps with the physical needs of military wives:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Part of the group&#8217;s mission is to provide physical needs like babysitting, lawn care, meals or home repairs for military wives &#8220;who come to this area, and they don&#8217;t have those connections yet,&#8221; Fitzgerald said. Scotts Hill Baptist plans to host a Military Wives Conference on May 15 to connect families with resources in the area.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The motivation behind the ministry is fairly simple, and it demonstrates both the family spirit and the relevance of faith to the military culture:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I feel like God calls us to help one another.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That straightforward statement of faith in action should serve as a sentiment that many Christians should seek to share.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A local paper covered the social support system of Christian Military Wives, a ministry of the Christian Military Fellowship\u00a0(see links).\u00a0 The article recounts the challenges of the wives left behind by husbands deploying for multiple combat tours&#8211;in one case, four times in five years.\u00a0 Besides providing a spiritual resource for like-minded wives, the group also helps with the physical needs [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[23,11,10],"class_list":["post-2821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-ministry","tag-bible","tag-prayer","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2821","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=2821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}