{"id":5268,"date":"2010-05-17T00:30:57","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T08:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=5268"},"modified":"2010-05-16T21:51:25","modified_gmt":"2010-05-17T05:51:25","slug":"troops-say-public-prayers-on-baghdad-hilltop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/17\/troops-say-public-prayers-on-baghdad-hilltop\/","title":{"rendered":"Troops Say Public Prayers on Baghdad Hilltop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US military Chaplaincy staff at Camp Liberty, Baghdad, Iraq, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/?script=news\/news_show.php&amp;id=49385\">started a &#8220;Mountaintop Experience&#8221;<\/a> to help local Americans &#8220;strengthen their resiliency.&#8221;\u00a0 A significant group of servicemembers and civilians meets atop Signal Hill at 0500, overlooking the base, and prays together.<\/p>\n<p>Col. Mike Lembke, the Chaplain, and Sgt Michael Lee, the Chaplain&#8217;s assistant, said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Spiritual resiliency is the individual ability to exercise your faith on a daily basis so you are able to understand, or you are able integrate the joys and sorrows of each day into your life,&#8221; Lembke said&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>When a person has a solid, spiritual foundation, they understand that someone has everything under control and they can lean on that during the tough times instead of relying on themselves to make through, Lee said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The group is made up of many from the base, including, as\u00a0shown in the picture <!--more-->below, Army Soldiers, Air Force Airmen, and civilians.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 475px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christianfighterpilot.com\/images\/277481sm.jpg\" alt=\"DoD Photo\" width=\"465\" height=\"311\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">DoD Photo<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US military Chaplaincy staff at Camp Liberty, Baghdad, Iraq, started a &#8220;Mountaintop Experience&#8221; to help local Americans &#8220;strengthen their resiliency.&#8221;\u00a0 A significant group of servicemembers and civilians meets atop Signal Hill at 0500, overlooking the base, and prays together. Col. Mike Lembke, the Chaplain, and Sgt Michael Lee, the Chaplain&#8217;s assistant, said: &#8220;Spiritual resiliency is the individual ability to [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,28],"tags":[134,88,398,5284,4,52,490,489,2,11,17,10],"class_list":["post-5268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaplain","category-government-and-religion","tag-air-force","tag-army","tag-baghdad","tag-chaplain","tag-churchandstate","tag-iraq","tag-michael-lee","tag-mike-lembke","tag-military","tag-prayer","tag-religious-expression","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5268","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=5268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}