{"id":30328,"date":"2014-11-03T02:37:51","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T05:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=30328"},"modified":"2016-11-25T01:07:40","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T04:07:40","slug":"chaplain-serves-faithful-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/03\/chaplain-serves-faithful-in-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Chaplain Serves Faithful in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A US Army <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/news\/146120\/chaplains-mission-continues-combat-missions-end-afghanistan\">news article<\/a> highlights Chaplain (Capt) Edgardo Rivas, a Seventh Day Adventist chaplain currently serving in Afghanistan:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The U.S. Army chaplains corps motto is \u201cpro deo et patria,\u201d which translates \u201cFor God and Country,\u201d and points to their dual role as mentioned in their mission statement&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was one particular Soldier that came to my service, whom was a Seventh-day Adventist before,\u201d said Rivas. \u201cAfter the service, he approached me and told me that it was time for him to <!--more-->come back to god.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLittle by little god is doing his work, regardless where you are,\u201d said Rivas.<\/p>\n<p>In the 13 years of conflict in Afghanistan, service members have had the opportunity to take time to observe their beliefs, even in the most rugged, remote locations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/news\/146120\/chaplains-mission-continues-combat-missions-end-afghanistan\">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>A US Army news article highlights Chaplain (Capt) Edgardo Rivas, a Seventh Day Adventist chaplain currently serving in Afghanistan: The U.S. Army chaplains corps motto is \u201cpro deo et patria,\u201d which translates \u201cFor God and Country,\u201d and points to their dual role as mentioned in their mission statement&#8230; \u201cThere was one particular Soldier that came to my service, whom was [&#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":[58,88,5284,4932,2,10,171,3766],"class_list":["post-30328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaplain","tag-afghanistan","tag-army","tag-chaplain","tag-edgardo-rivas","tag-military","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-seventh-day-adventist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30328","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=30328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}