{"id":33925,"date":"2015-11-06T00:30:18","date_gmt":"2015-11-06T03:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=33925"},"modified":"2015-12-31T20:09:42","modified_gmt":"2015-12-31T23:09:42","slug":"air-force-chaplains-take-to-the-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/06\/air-force-chaplains-take-to-the-air\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Force Chaplains Take to the Air"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chaplains from Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, are participating in a unique program that allows them to become qualified on the wing&#8217;s aircraft, thus enabling them to minister at 30,000 feet.\u00a0 In an official Air Force article entitled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.af.mil\/News\/ArticleDisplay\/tabid\/223\/Article\/622625\/spirit-in-the-sky.aspx\">Spirit in the sky<\/a>:&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;If we can get to where our people work, we can connect them with the support they need,&#8221; said Chaplain (Maj.) Michael Farar&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Chaplain (Col.) Bruce Glover, a 25th Air Force chaplain [said] &#8220;A chaplain being on flying orders and<!--more--> spending time with aircrew is precisely the kind of unit engagement that we as a chaplain corps need to be doing,&#8221; Glover said. &#8220;To care for Airmen, we need to be in the air.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The effort seems to be effective:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Once we were there, around them, and I understood their world, and their language and what they were going through &#8212; instantly, after that flight, I got an influx from that particular airframe,&#8221; Farar said. &#8220;We engaged them with some teamwork things, some spiritual resiliency issues, suicide prevention&#8230; I had so many requests, I couldn&#8217;t accommodate them all.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.af.mil\/News\/ArticleDisplay\/tabid\/223\/Article\/622625\/spirit-in-the-sky.aspx\">Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>ADVERTISEMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\" async=\"\"><\/script><!-- blogpost --> <ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-slot=\"2728423835\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6450825356098669\"><\/ins><script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chaplains from Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, are participating in a unique program that allows them to become qualified on the wing&#8217;s aircraft, thus enabling them to minister at 30,000 feet.\u00a0 In an official Air Force article entitled &#8220;Spirit in the sky:&#8221; &#8220;If we can get to where our people work, we can connect them with the support they need,&#8221; [&#8230;]<\/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":[134,5375,5284,5374,2,10,171],"class_list":["post-33925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-air-force","tag-bruce-glover","tag-chaplain","tag-michael-farar","tag-military","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33925","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=33925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}