Stories tagged with: veterans

• VETERANS DAY: Veteran's cross-country cycling spotlights missions

  by Makayla Sykes, posted Wednesday, November 11, 2015 (8 years ago)

  

  Photo courtesy Legendary Images

  CLEVELAND, Tenn. (BP) -- Army veteran Tom Cawood set out on Aug. 24 to ride his bike from San Diego, Calif., to St. Augustine, Fla. And along the way, he and his wife Pat helped raise awareness for missions and the North American Mission Board.

  At age 81, when most of his contemporaries are slowing down, Cawood gives the impression of gaining speed. His life motto is, "Life is like water skiing, if you slow down, you go down." Read More

• VETERANS DAY: A Navy wife

  by Jeff Iorg, posted Wednesday, November 11, 2015 (8 years ago)

  Seminary president Jeff Iorg, on Veterans Day, pays tribute to wives who empower their husbands for service. "They are the unsung heroes, serving the mission and sacrificing in a thousand quiet ways," he writes. Read More

• VETERANS DAY: Iwo Jima: young Marine's faith endured

  by Neisha Roberts/The Alabama Baptist, posted Wednesday, November 11, 2015 (8 years ago)

  

  Photo by Neisha Roberts

  BLOUNT SPRINGS, Ala. (BP) -- Horace Lee was 12 when he "gave my heart to the Lord" at a Baptist church in Alabama; 17 when he entered the Marine Corps in 1940; and 21 when he was wounded in Iwo Jima as the U.S. wrested the strategic island from the Japanese.

  "God taught me a great deal" in the military, Lee, now 91, said. "The Marine Corps complemented God's work by their fellowship … because it's teamwork and fellowship, and if you don't have that then you cannot depend on that fellow behind you.... Read More

• Veterans befriend pastor after losing his father

  by Jim Burton, posted Thursday, July 02, 2015 (9 years ago)

  

  When Tommy Kelly was 23, his life was turned upside down when his father died from a heart attack.

  A faithful Christian, his father had been a deacon and church treasurer and was the local magistrate. Kelly got a kick from hearing local lawyers, who had far more education than his father, refer to him as “judge.”

  And Thomas H. Kelly Sr. was patriotic, having served in the Army right after the Korean War. Read More

• Family with 5 'heroes' reaches out to veterans

  by Jane Rodgers/Southern Baptist TEXAN, posted Tuesday, November 11, 2014 (9 years ago)

  

  Photo by Bonnie Pritchett

  CEDAR PARK, Texas (BP) -- For Wes and Judy Pierce, founders of a veterans resource organization called Heroes Night Out, a large family and service to the country go hand in hand.

  Of the Pierces' 12 children -- eight of whom are adopted -- five sons have served in the United States military.

  In 2007, sons Brian, Tim and Jeremy served in Iraq at the same time. Both Tim and Jeremy's Army deployments stretched from nine to 15 months in Iraq. Read More

• VETERANS DAY: Meditation at a flagpole

  by David E. Crosby, posted Tuesday, November 11, 2014 (9 years ago)

  "The children, the children," New Orleans pastor David Crosby recounts from an uncle's World War II memories -- an uncle who later became a children's home administrator. "I wonder if maybe he found his calling and his life's work on the battlefield," Crosby writes. Read More

• Iraq war vet to plant church in Washington state

  by Tobin Perry, posted Monday, November 10, 2014 (9 years ago)

  

  Photo by Kaitlyn Bernauer/NAMB

  YAKIMA, Wash. (BP) -- Michael Johnson learned a million little things in the U.S. Army. He learned to make his bed Army-style. He learned to march in the Army band. He learned to shoot an M-16 rifle and throw a grenade. Read More