{"id":28315,"date":"2014-03-03T01:53:58","date_gmt":"2014-03-03T04:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=28315"},"modified":"2016-09-26T12:14:33","modified_gmt":"2016-09-26T15:14:33","slug":"military-chaplains-support-marriages-across-distance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/03\/military-chaplains-support-marriages-across-distance\/","title":{"rendered":"Military Chaplains Support Marriages across Distance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chaplains deployed to Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/news\/120341\/building-stronger-relationships\">started a program<\/a> that would enable real-time, live counseling to occur between deployed servicemembers and their families back home:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We are using technology to reduce the many miles which divide service members from their loved ones,&#8221; [Chaplain (Maj) James Buckman] said. &#8220;Before this program, when a marriage was going through a hardship we would usually hear one side of the story. Now we can listen to both parties and help counsel both individuals. We are not only the service member&#8217;s chaplain, we are the chaplain of the family member as well.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Marriage retreats are not uncommon in the military, even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/news\/119990\/joint-task-force-bravo-chaplains-office-helps-members-find-strength-military-marriages\">in a deployed environment<\/a>.\u00a0 &#8220;Worship with Warriors,&#8221; billed as &#8220;proactive counseling,&#8221; uniquely helps deployed chaplains hear more of the conversation, which helps them better support the deployed servicemember, helps strengthen troops marriages, and, thus, helps accomplish the mission.<\/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>Chaplains deployed to Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, started a program that would enable real-time, live counseling to occur between deployed servicemembers and their families back home: &#8220;We are using technology to reduce the many miles which divide service members from their loved ones,&#8221; [Chaplain (Maj) James Buckman] said. &#8220;Before this program, when a marriage was going through a hardship [&#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":[5284,4641,83,2,1261,10],"class_list":["post-28315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaplain","tag-chaplain","tag-james-buckman","tag-marriage","tag-military","tag-qatar","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28315","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=28315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}