{"id":30872,"date":"2015-01-19T00:30:50","date_gmt":"2015-01-19T03:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=30872"},"modified":"2016-11-25T00:41:21","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T03:41:21","slug":"us-marines-sailors-baptized-in-red-sea-aboard-uss-makin-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/19\/us-marines-sailors-baptized-in-red-sea-aboard-uss-makin-island\/","title":{"rendered":"US Marines, Sailors Baptized in Red Sea aboard USS Makin Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christianfighterpilot.com\/images\/makinbaptism.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1050\" height=\"750\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Chaplain (Cmdr) Timothy Moore and Chief Aviation Ordnanceman James A. Henry baptize one of 27 Sailors and Marines, Nov. 21, in the well deck of the amphibious assault ship USS Makin Island (LHD 8) in the Gulf of Aden as it connects to the Red Sea.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>These Sailors and Marines specifically <!--more-->wanted to be baptized in the Red Sea, for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hughsnews.com\/commander-timothy-moore-chaplain-united-states-navy-conducts-baptism-aboard-amphibious-assault-ship-uss-makin-island-lhd-8-in-the-gulf-of-aden\">obvious reasons<\/a>, and their chaplain and crew\u00a0obliged.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of Marines and Sailors singing <em>Amazing Grace<\/em> and being baptized in the waters of the Middle East?\u00a0 Who would have thought?<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ussmakinisland\/posts\/10154933578155157\">reported by the ship<\/a> and covered at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianexaminer.com\/article\/god.and.country.and.baptism.are.a.part.of.christians.military.service\/48040.htm\">Christian Examiner<\/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>Chaplain (Cmdr) Timothy Moore and Chief Aviation Ordnanceman James A. Henry baptize one of 27 Sailors and Marines, Nov. 21, in the well deck of the amphibious assault ship USS Makin Island (LHD 8) in the Gulf of Aden as it connects to the Red Sea. These Sailors and Marines specifically<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[889,5284,96,5018,149,2,36,17,5019,10,171,5017,2701],"class_list":["post-30872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-baptism","tag-chaplain","tag-christian","tag-james-henry","tag-marines","tag-military","tag-navy","tag-religious-expression","tag-red-sea","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-timothy-moore","tag-uss-makin-island"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30872","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=30872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}