After an awards ceremony for his battalion, Will Alley was asked to close in prayer. Most of you will remember Will as our Military Minister.  He is now serving as the battalion chaplain for the 3/8 Cavalry.
Check out how he encourages a football-style huddle with arms around one another.  It is amazing to [...]

For those of you looking for a good study on Christ-centered solutions for Combat Trauma, this is a great place to start. Bridges to Healing is a ministry within Military Ministry, a division of Campus Crusade for Christ International, and has produced a 10 step manual aimed to heal all variations of combat related [...]

Last night I returned from a 3 day conference in Norfolk, Virginia where I had the opportunity to meet others who share my passion for military ministry. Individuals from local churches, para-church organizations, and military chaplaincy gathered at First Baptist Church, Norfolk for the second annual Military Missions Network Flagship Church Conference. The [...]

Fact: As of March 2007, the Army is short by about 520 chaplains. (see “Army has severe chaplain shortage” – OneNewsNow)
Part of the above article goes on to say “The U.S. military’s chaplaincy is “severely short at this point,” the defense analyst emphasizes. “We’ve tried to ratchet up recruitment and the like,” he says, [...]

Jul 17, 2007 | by Marie Travis
FORT MYER, Va. (BP)–Doug Carver remembers the day he held a pair of bloody dog tags in his hand. That same hand recently rested on the Bible his wife Sunny gave him for college graduation as he was sworn in as the 23rd U.S. Army Chief of Chaplains.
Carver was [...]

Recently, the North American Mission Board (NAMB) published a story about Military Ministry from the local church perspective in their OnMission publication called “Left Behind.” The main message of the article was that “churches in military towns have a unique opportunity to minister to families separated from loved ones deployed overseas.” Here is [...]

A lot of times we are fed stories about soldiers losing their faith in Iraq. I remember reading the Newsweek article a couple months ago about a chaplain who had struggled with the issue of faith after a difficult deployment. The article described his struggle with almost losing his faith, and I remember [...]

Allie Martin OneNewsNow.com
A chaplain recruiter with the Army National Guard says pastors are serving their country and helping many servicemen and servicewomen find Christ. The military, says James Collins, is a huge mission field.
Collins is a chaplain and also a chaplain recruiter with the Army National Guard based in Oklahoma. He recruits chaplains from throughout [...]

The following is a portion of an email sent to me from a chaplain in Iraq. This is an awesome example and testimony of God showing His love to our soldiers through Army chaplains in the midst of the tragedy of war.
There’s been a lot of busyness at work in the last few weeks, [...]

By Rebekah Hardage, BGCT
DALLAS — The Baptist General Convention of Texas has endorsed more than 400 chaplains.
At the BGCT Chaplaincy Endorsement Board Meeting May 21, 11 chaplains were endorsed — 10 new and one transfer. This brings the total number of BGCT-endorsed chaplains to 410.
The chaplains cover a wide range of areas. Of the 410 [...]