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  • Army chaplain reaches hundreds for Christ
    by Brandon Elrod, posted Monday, September 30, 2019 (4 years ago)

    Photo by Saskia Gabriel/Fort Jackson Public Affairs.
    COLUMBIA, S.C. (BP) -- With a long family history of military service and after baptizing hundreds of soldiers in two years at Fort Jackson, chaplain Chris Rice's calling to military chaplaincy sounds like an obvious fit.

    Since February 24, Rice has baptized 519 soldiers who have come through the base in Columbia, S.C., for basic training. His road to serving members of the United States Armed Services, however, wound through a few twists and turns. Read More

  • Chaplaincy ministry, church planting spotlighted at SEBTS
    by Lauren Pratt, posted Wednesday, September 19, 2018 (6 years ago)

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    WAKE FOREST, N.C. (BP) -- With more than 100 military community students, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary is making strides in its efforts to engage these students and bring awareness to ministry opportunities within the military community.

    Affiliated SEBTS military personnel and students gathered for panel discussions and various meetings for the seminary's first Military Community Focus Week, Sept. 4-7.

    "Discipling, training and caring for our military community is incredibly strategic for long term global, gospel impact," said Mark Liederbach, dean of students and vice president for student services. "Our hope is to build a welcoming, strategic and caring community for our military men and women." Read More

  • NAMB highlights core ministries & racial relations
    by Brandon Elrod, posted Thursday, June 14, 2018 (6 years ago)

    Photo by Hayley Catt
    DALLAS (BP) -- "We are here for you," Kevin Ezell, president of the North American Mission Board, said in opening his presentation to messengers at the Southern Baptist Convention. "We are grateful for you. We are eager to partner with you to push back lostness in North America."

    NAMB celebrated the work of missionaries and shared new mission opportunities at the SBC annual meeting in Dallas on Tuesday afternoon (June 12). Ezell provided updates about collegiate church planting and a new resource NAMB has created to help churches foster racial reconciliation in their communities, then closed by speaking about military chaplaincy. Read More

  • VETERANS DAY: Chaplains, churches bolster U.S. troops
    by Brandon Elrod, posted Friday, November 10, 2017 (6 years ago)

    Photo courtesy of Calvary Baptist Church
    ALPHARETTA, Ga. (BP) -- On his first deployment, now-retired Brigadier General Chaplain Carlton Fisher was shot at one night while out for a jog. In Afghanistan, he was near several firefights. At one point, insurgents launched a rocket-propelled grenade at a tower on the forward operating base where he was stationed.

    Chaplains may serve as noncombatants in the military but that doesn't always mean they're far from combat when serving troops on the battlefield.

    During his final deployment in 2008, Fisher traveled with the 926th Engineer ... Read More

  • Combat veteran & wife: from PTSD toward healing
    by K. Faith Morgan, posted Friday, November 11, 2016 (7 years ago)

    Photo courtesy Mike Langston
    COLUMBIA, S.C. (BP) -- "Do you feel safe in our home?" Kathy Langston asked her husband, Navy Chaplain Mike Langston.

    "No, I don't," he replied.

    It was four years after his last tour of duty. Theirs was a family that understood deployment. Mike had been gone a total of nine and a half years during the course of their marriage. Read More

  • Southern Baptists honor Pearl Harbor survivor
    by Todd Deaton, posted Thursday, June 16, 2016 (8 years ago)

    ST. LOUIS (BP) -- World War II veteran Bill McAnany, one of 2,000 living survivors of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, was introduced to the Southern Baptist Convention as messengers honored America and recognized military veterans June 14 at the SBC's annual meeting in St. Louis.

    Calling it an "awesome privilege," SBC President Ronnie Floyd observed that a memory of WWII disappears from American culture every three minutes as those who fought in the global conflict pass into eternity. Read More