{"id":40887,"date":"2017-05-23T00:25:38","date_gmt":"2017-05-23T03:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=40887"},"modified":"2017-06-30T00:36:50","modified_gmt":"2017-06-30T03:36:50","slug":"us-soldier-dedicates-life-to-god-and-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/23\/us-soldier-dedicates-life-to-god-and-country\/","title":{"rendered":"US Soldier Dedicates Life to God and Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-40888\" src=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/crawfordbaptism.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"880\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/crawfordbaptism.jpg 880w, https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/crawfordbaptism-300x95.jpg 300w, https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/crawfordbaptism-768x244.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 880px) 100vw, 880px\" \/>US Army SSgt Christal Crawford is deployed to Jordan, and it is there she chose to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/news\/233786\/god-and-country-soldier-dedicates-life-and-career-jordan\">re-dedicate her life<\/a> to her country &#8212; <em>and<\/em> to her God.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>With tears in her eyes, [she] walked down the steps leading to the Jordan River at the baptism site of Jesus to change into her robe&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI never imagined when I was younger that I would get to experience being baptized in <!--more-->the same river as the Lord and where my faith was born.\u201d said Crawford.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>A few hours later, Crawford stood across from the USARCENT contingency command post tactical operations center she helped construct, raised her right hand, and reenlisted into the U.S. Army.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Service in the US military &#8212; service to the United States of America &#8212; provides a unique opportunity to see and experience amazing things. It also gives US troops the opportunity to exercise and express their faith &#8212; like being baptized in the Jordan for all the world to see.<\/p>\n<p>Wherever you are, and whatever you do, you truly are an ambassador for Christ in uniform &#8212; and a government-paid missionary.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-layout=\"standard\" data-action=\"like\" data-size=\"small\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-share=\"true\"><\/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>US Army SSgt Christal Crawford is deployed to Jordan, and it is there she chose to re-dedicate her life to her country &#8212; and to her God. With tears in her eyes, [she] walked down the steps leading to the Jordan River at the baptism site of Jesus to change into her robe&#8230; \u201cI never imagined when I was younger [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40888,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[889,5284,6248,96,3031,17,10,171],"class_list":["post-40887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-baptism","tag-chaplain","tag-christal-crawford","tag-christian","tag-jordan","tag-religious-expression","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40887","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=40887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}