{"id":31140,"date":"2015-03-06T00:30:40","date_gmt":"2015-03-06T03:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=31140"},"modified":"2016-11-25T00:34:00","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T03:34:00","slug":"chaplain-on-service-in-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/06\/chaplain-on-service-in-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Chaplain on Service in War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christianfighterpilot.com\/images\/chaplainsendme.jpg\" alt=\"Chaplain Send Me\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It was 2003 and we were in the middle of a war&#8230;I could see the stress, pain and hopelessness weigh on the people around me. Of course, I felt I had to try and do something.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So during my first worship service, <!--more-->I met with the civil engineer guys and dug a big hole, placed a fuel bladder in it and filled the hole up with water,&#8221; the chaplain continued. &#8220;Then I held a baptism. A lot of people rededicated their life to God that day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Chaplain (Maj) Matthew Boyd<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.af.mil\/News\/Photos\/tabid\/129\/igphoto\/2001017937\/Default.aspx\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christianfighterpilot.com\/images\/chaplainsendmebaptism.jpg\" alt=\"Chaplain Baptism\" width=\"299\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.af.mil\/News\/ArticleDisplay\/tabid\/223\/Article\/567625\/a-chaplains-story-legacy-life-love.aspx\">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>&#8220;It was 2003 and we were in the middle of a war&#8230;I could see the stress, pain and hopelessness weigh on the people around me. Of course, I felt I had to try and do something. &#8220;So during my first worship service,<\/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":[134,889,5284,5044,2,10],"class_list":["post-31140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaplain","tag-air-force","tag-baptism","tag-chaplain","tag-matthew-boyd","tag-military","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31140","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=31140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}