{"id":4057,"date":"2010-03-08T00:25:14","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T08:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=4057"},"modified":"2010-03-07T21:59:14","modified_gmt":"2010-03-08T05:59:14","slug":"haitians-learn-of-chaplains-christians-in-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/08\/haitians-learn-of-chaplains-christians-in-military\/","title":{"rendered":"Haitians Learn of Chaplains, Christians in Military"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A short article at Army.mil details the sermon of a US Army Chaplain to Haitians during his humanitarian deployment.\u00a0 Chaplain (Maj) Brad Baumann was invited to preach in\u00a0a devastated church in Port-au-Prince.\u00a0 His Chaplain assistant, Spc. Midine Beauvais, grew up in Haiti and was able to translate much of the sermon to Creole.<\/p>\n<p>The most <a href=\"http:\/\/www.army.mil\/-news\/2010\/02\/22\/34801-sending-them-away-with-god-2nd-brigade-combat-team-chaplain-joins-haitians-in-worship\/\">interesting part of the article<\/a>, though, was the Haitians surprise at the presence of a Christian Chaplain in the military:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The locals don&#8217;t expect people in the military to be Christian and take time for God while on a mission&#8230;so they appreciated that the soldiers attended the service at their church.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Though there is often an emphasis on the &#8220;risks&#8221; of associating Christianity with the US military, people often forget that there can be cultural advantages to the mission, as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A short article at Army.mil details the sermon of a US Army Chaplain to Haitians during his humanitarian deployment.\u00a0 Chaplain (Maj) Brad Baumann was invited to preach in\u00a0a devastated church in Port-au-Prince.\u00a0 His Chaplain assistant, Spc. Midine Beauvais, grew up in Haiti and was able to translate much of the sermon to Creole. The most interesting part of the article, [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[88,243,5284,146,244],"class_list":["post-4057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaplain","tag-army","tag-brad-baumann","tag-chaplain","tag-haiti","tag-midine-beauvais"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4057","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=4057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}