By 2nd Lt. Leon Buchanan | 12/05/2011

First, I would like to thank everyone for making me feel so welcomed. You all have made me feel right at home. A couple of months ago, I was relaxing at my home in Fayetteville, N.C., when I received a call from a woman in the congregation. In a frantic voice she informed me there was an intoxicated man banging on her door and he would not leave. I told her to call the police and I would be there soon. As I drove over there, a million different scenarios ran through my mind, and I prayed for her safety during the drive. When I arrived at her apartment complex I saw a man leaning against the door of the apartment that was across from hers. I ... Read More...

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Chaplain (Maj.) Mike DuCharme | 09/12/2011

As I sit to write this, my final article, I cannot believe how quickly the past three years have gone by. But then again, I cannot believe how quickly these last nine years in the Army have gone by or for that matter the years since becoming a husband and father and the list goes on. I have been so blessed to be a part of the 108th Training Command Family and now I am going to USARC as the Lord has opened that door. My thoughts move back and forth between what has been and what is yet to come. Then I am reminded of another man who had a far more pressing end to one aspect of his life while anticipating his future. That man is the apostle Pau... Read More...

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Randall Bell | 06/05/2011

On the Saturday before Easter I found myself on an airplane traveling home after a week of institutional visits in the state of Maine. Some on the plane were traveling to be with family and friends for Easter, but all of us had a strong sense that the next day was considered a very special day where Christians remember Christ’s resurrection after suffering death on the Cross for our sins. With the strong sense of Easter in mind, my seatmate and I begin to discuss our respective faith journeys and how we had come to believe what we believed about our lives and the hereafter. Both of us were old enough to recognize that we are on the “downhill”... Read More...

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Chaplain (Col.) R. J. Gore Jr. | 06/05/2011

Exodus 4:1-3, Moses answered, “What if they do not believe me or listen to me and say, ‘The LORD did not appear to you’?” 2 Then the LORD said to him, “What is that in your hand?” “A staff,” he replied. 3 The LORD said, “Throw it on the ground.” Moses threw it on the ground and it became a snake, and he ran from it. “What is that in your hand?” the Lord asked Moses. Moses said, “It’s a staff.” It was nothing more than a rod, a piece of wood used by a shepherd to herd uncooperative sheep. A piece of wood, itself a branch, shorn of any smaller branches, twigs, or buds: devoid of any signs that it once was alive. A piece of wood worn smooth by ... Read More...

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Chaplain (Maj.) Michael DuCharme | 02/16/2011

It is January and I am pulling into the YMCA parking lot and much to my dismay there isn’t a single spot in the entire lot! Then it hits me, New Year’s resolution time. If you are like me you see little value in New Year’s resolutions simply because often in our lives resolutions come and go with very little long term results. Yet, we all long for changes in those areas of our lives where improvement is necessary. Examples are: taking our health and fitness more seriously, finding a job that is more in line with our talents and worth, being a better spouse or parent and the list goes on. Read More...

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Cpt. (Chaplain) Jameson M. Williams | 09/20/2010

When I think back to my years at Hancock County High School, in Hancock Ky., my mind goes back to those long trips in the school bus to basketball games. The players would all sit in the back and the cheerleaders in the front of the yellow transport. I was neither. I can’t shoot a basketball to save my life and, well, male cheerleaders were not yet en vogue at my high school. I was the one and only mascot. Read More...

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Chaplain (Maj.) Michael A. Milton | 06/07/2010

Soon summer will be fully upon us. Praise the Lord! But when I was a little boy, the late spring and early summer could mean storms, and swelling creeks all around us. And thus spring, beautiful as it was, meant a time for potential danger. In those seasons when storms threatened our little chicken farm, on the Louisianan-Mississippi border, I had to go out into the chicken yard and gather up all of the bitties, the chicks, and rescue them from the coming storm. We had a special place for them to keep them safe until the storm had passed. It was not only my responsibility but also my heart’s duty to go and search extensively for every single... Read More...

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Chaplain (Col.) R. J. Gore Jr. | 02/19/2010

Let’s face it. We all look at the outward appearance. I think very few would want to argue the case that Britney Spears or Paris Hilton have made it to the top based on talent alone. We live in a culture that values certain physical characteristics and rewards those who are blessed with them, either through good fortune in the genetic lottery or through the skill of the plastic surgeon. Read More...

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Spc. Christina Dion | 12/07/2009

One of the worst states of mind we can find ourselves in is one caused by stress. We may be worried or concerned about a situation in our life or in the lives of our loved ones. For many of us, this is a daily reality as we fret about the economy, our children and their choices, too much work with a paycheck that buys less and less, or whether or not the Panthers will make it to the playoffs. Alright, that last one is a stretch (at least for most of us). Read More...

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