{"id":8535,"date":"2010-12-29T00:15:11","date_gmt":"2010-12-29T05:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=8535"},"modified":"2010-12-27T03:22:05","modified_gmt":"2010-12-27T08:22:05","slug":"iowa-pastor-helps-soldiers-keep-the-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/29\/iowa-pastor-helps-soldiers-keep-the-faith\/","title":{"rendered":"Iowa Pastor Helps Soldiers Keep the Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A local news channel interviewed interviewed US Army Chaplain (Col) Lance Kittleson as he described his role as a spiritual support for Soldiers:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As a chaplain in the army, [Kittleson is] the senior pastor and administrator of a military congregation of more than 5,000 soldiers at bases all over Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My job is to make sure the commander is informed on religious implications of his mission as well as provide direct support to our soldiers: Catholic, Protestant, Muslim, whatever they may be,&#8221; Col. Kittleson said.<\/p>\n<p>He says faith is very important during a time of war.\u00a0 <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Human beings are more than just flesh and bones. they have spirit too and they really need some sort of sustaining support when they&#8217;re in life and death situations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Those life and death situations, Kittleson says, bring most soldiers closer to their belief in a higher power.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When not deployed, Kittleson is the pastor of a local congregation.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/kaaltv.com\/article\/stories\/S1888554.shtml?cat=10218\">full article at KAALtv.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A local news channel interviewed interviewed US Army Chaplain (Col) Lance Kittleson as he described his role as a spiritual support for Soldiers: As a chaplain in the army, [Kittleson is] the senior pastor and administrator of a military congregation of more than 5,000 soldiers at bases all over Iraq. &#8220;My job is to make sure the commander is informed [&#8230;]<\/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":[88,5284,82,44,1240,2,10,171],"class_list":["post-8535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaplain","tag-army","tag-chaplain","tag-constitution","tag-islam","tag-lance-kittleson","tag-military","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8535","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=8535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}