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HAVE YOU CONSIDERED THE MILITARY CHAPLAINCY?
The AEGA Fellowship is approved by the Pentagon as an Endorsing Ecclesiastical Organization with the United States of America Military Chaplaincy Program. We are proud to report that AEGA has chaplains in branches of the military to the glory of God!
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Chief of the Chaplain Service
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WHO IS THE CHAPLAIN? The Chaplain, trained and ready, provides comprehensive unit based religious support. Chaplainmplement the free exercise of religion and assists the command by providing pastoral care for its members, while accompanying them in peace, crisis, and war. The Unit Ministry Team (UMT) consists of denominational and non-denominational ordained chaplains and enlisted chaplain assistants. Chaplain assistants serve to assist the chaplain in ministerial duties as well as protecting the chaplain during wartime. The mission of the Unit Ministry Team is to furnish comprehensive religious support to soldiers, their families, and other authorized personnel. Comprehensive religious support includes pastoral acts, rites ceremonies, ordinances, worship and religious education. Chaplains will also provide and conduct pastoral counseling, visitation, battle fatigue intervention, moral and ethical counseling, address social concerns and offer spiritual advise to the unit commander. Chaplains not only provide pastoral care to the soldiers, but to family members as well. They are called upon to perform marriage ceremonies, premarital counseling, funerals, memorial services, and provide chapel services on a continuing basis. The threefold core doctrinal principles of the Chaplain Corps in accomplishing religious support is to “Nurture the living, Care for the wounded and Honor the dead.” Through the ministry of presence, the chaplain is aware of the spiritual, emotional, and physical condition of the soldiers. The Chaplain’s ministerial setting may range from a proper chapel, to holding worship services in the middle of the desert, to talking to a soldier on a road march during training. The chaplain must be willing to go into the perils of combat situations with the soldiers. The chaplain is a noncombatant and carries no weapon, yet is looked up to by the soldiers merely through his presence. Often, the only contact a chaplain will have with many soldiers is during field training exercises. During these exercises, soldiers who would normally avoid the chaplain sometimes seek out the chaplain for advise or council. The ministry of presence with the troops, in their environment, under the same conditions is the staple of the Military Chaplain ministry. |
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