FORT DRUM, New York, (BP)–Fine sand and blinding dust swirled across the Iraqi desert, providing cover for U.S. Army soldiers to advance deeper into enemy terrain. The lead Humvee inched cautiously forward. The soldiers on point radioed to a support group behind them — and asked for a chaplain.
James White, a Southern Baptist chaplain appointed by the North American Mission Board, answered the call.
“We’re scared,” the soldiers told White when he joined them. “Could you take a few minutes to pray with us?”
“We all knelt there in the sand and prayed,” said White, who is a colonel and garrison chaplain at Fort Drum, New York, home of the U.S. Army’s 10th Mountain Division.
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