{"id":8581,"date":"2010-12-29T00:50:43","date_gmt":"2010-12-29T05:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=8581"},"modified":"2010-12-27T03:16:28","modified_gmt":"2010-12-27T08:16:28","slug":"frontline-faith-project-gives-soldiers-comfort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/29\/frontline-faith-project-gives-soldiers-comfort\/","title":{"rendered":"Frontline Faith Project Gives Soldiers Comfort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/frontlinefaithproject.org\/\">Frontline Faith Project<\/a>, started by local Catholic parishioner Cheri Lamonte, is distributing mp3 players to American servicemembers with homilies, religious music, readings, and prayers:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Cheri Lomonte started the grassroots Frontline Faith effort last spring after learning that some servicemen and women can go months without having access to a military chaplain.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The soldiers in the field &#8230; once they get it, they want their best friend to have it too&#8230;. And the feedback we are getting is: &#8220;I get to hear Mass every day&#8221; or &#8221; I get to hear these prayers.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Importantly, the <a href=\"http:\/\/liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com\/2010\/12\/17\/providing-faith-comfort-for-soldiers-at-war\/\">CNN article<\/a> notes the FFP is not <!--more-->the only organization supporting servicemembers and Chaplains.\u00a0 It specifically notes Campus Crusade&#8217;s Military Ministry and the ecumenical Adopt-a-Chaplain.\u00a0 (See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianfighterpilot.com\/links.htm\">Links for more<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>The FFP&#8217;s effort is similar to <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/18\/biblesticks-in-high-demand-in-combat-areas\/\">Faith Comes by Hearing&#8217;s BibleStick<\/a>, which is a miniature mp3 player pre-loaded with the New Testament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Frontline Faith Project, started by local Catholic parishioner Cheri Lamonte, is distributing mp3 players to American servicemembers with homilies, religious music, readings, and prayers: Cheri Lomonte started the grassroots Frontline Faith effort last spring after learning that some servicemen and women can go months without having access to a military chaplain. &#8220;The soldiers in the field &#8230; once they [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[23,54,1251,1252,2,10,171],"class_list":["post-8581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-ministry","tag-bible","tag-catholic","tag-cheri-lamonte","tag-frontline-faith-project","tag-military","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8581","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=8581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}