{"id":28681,"date":"2014-03-24T02:30:53","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T05:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=28681"},"modified":"2016-09-26T12:05:30","modified_gmt":"2016-09-26T15:05:30","slug":"chaplain-serves-marines-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/24\/chaplain-serves-marines-in-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Chaplain Serves Marines In Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/news\/122221\/chaplains-mission-continues-afghanistan\">official Marine Corps article<\/a> highlights the service of Chaplain (LtCmdr) Matthew Berrens:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI joined the military because I feel service members come in contact with dangerous situations more than the civilian side of ministry,\u201d said Berrens&#8230;\u201cI wanted to be able to help people at the source.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Chaplain Berrens describes how his role as a chaplain helps accomplish the military mission: <!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI feel like I\u2019m helping them along in their journey of life, through challenging and difficult times,\u201d said Berrens. \u201cMy role in helping people spiritually improves mission readiness. When service members are put at ease spiritually, they can focus on their job or mission more, which makes them more effective.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/03\/top-australian-general-on-christmas-christian-fellowship\/\">Read more<\/a>.<\/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 Marine Corps article highlights the service of Chaplain (LtCmdr) Matthew Berrens: \u201cI joined the military because I feel service members come in contact with dangerous situations more than the civilian side of ministry,\u201d said Berrens&#8230;\u201cI wanted to be able to help people at the source.\u201d Chaplain Berrens describes how his role as a chaplain helps accomplish the military [&#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":[5284,149,4691,2,10,171],"class_list":["post-28681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaplain","tag-chaplain","tag-marines","tag-matthew-berrens","tag-military","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28681","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=28681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}