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Captain Dale Goetz cared about the soldiers he served as an Army chaplain—both their physical and spiritual needs. “He had a great burden for the soldiers,” said Jason Parker, pastor of High Country Baptist Church of Colorado Springs. “His specific prayer request was to see 300 soldiers come to Christ. He was also praying for [...]

Christopher Stout had a beautiful singing voice and could belt out the tunes in a church choir or a more casual karaoke setting. “I believe he could have made it professionally,” said his uncle, James Stout. “But he thought of others rather than thinking of himself.” That’s why he joined the Army. He was a [...]

The chaplain’s corps of the Alabama National Guard is growing, but adding additional chaplains is still a critical need. Six Guardsmen recently completed the Army’s Chaplain Training Course at Fort Jack­son in South Carolina. One al­ready has completed seminary and the others are attending seminary. The Alabama Guard current­ly has 19 chaplains assigned to the [...]

Conservative groups predict tight restrictions on chaplains’ religious speech if the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” law is overturned, with some evangelical Christian groups contemplating pulling their ministers out of the ranks. “The approved gospel will be a politically correct gospel,” said Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, a Christian lobbying group that [...]

The careers of many if not most military chaplains will end if the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy against open homosexual service is overturned, more than 40 retired military chaplains contend in an April 28 letter to President Obama and Defense Secretary Robert Gates. The letter warned that reversing the policy will negatively impact religious [...]

A small group of people, many of them veterans, braved the dreary weather Sunday, April 25 to huddle under the span of the Route 3 bridge over the Passaic River in Rutherford as it was dedicated to a hero of the Vietnam War, the Rev. Major Charles Joseph Watters, an army chaplain and one-time parish [...]

On March 23 to 25, the 442nd Signal Battalion Unit Ministry Team sponsored its second Spouse Seminar. The seminar consisted of three days of training to equip military spouses with the knowledge and resources they will need to care for their immediate family and to create vibrant Unit Readiness Groups to care for their larger [...]

Doris Jean Bailey worried that her grandson, an Army chaplain, would be deployed overseas when she died and wouldn’t be able to officiate her funeral service. Capt. David A. Hicks indeed was in Afghanistan on Monday, the day of Bailey’s funeral; he tried, but wasn’t able to fly home. Nevertheless, through a live stream over [...]