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A Purpose Everywhere You Go

‘’For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.’’ – Ephesians 2:10 Have you ever felt completely and totally lost? Not in a geographically sense but more of a “what in the world am I doing here” type of feeling. As a […]

Fatherhood: For Everything There Is A Season

Ecclesiastes 3: 1-8 3 For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: 2 a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted; 3 a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to […]

Military Spouses Share Easter and Lent Traditions

By: Hope N. Griffin Prior to moving to Ft. Bliss in El Paso, Texas I was unfamiliar with Lent. I grew up the oldest daughter of a non-denominational pastor and then headed off to Dallas Theological Seminary for grad school. Foolishly I thought I knew all there was to know surrounding Christian culture and traditions. […]

Month of the Military Child, Joys & Challenges

By: Hope N. Griffin April is the month of the military child and I find myself thinking of what it has meant to my small children to be military kids. My soldier is newly retired and as I reflect back on his time in the military I can’t help but be thankful for the environment […]

Our Connection

With repeated deployments and the normal challenges of military life, the stresses military families face can really take a toll on a marriage. Many of the solutions to the anxieties military couples experience are spiritual in nature. Our Connection: Staying Close When Worlds Apart is an important resource tool to give couples the faith and knowledge […]

Top Military Marriage Stressors

Spencer and Margaret have worked with many military couples as volunteers, besides being a military couple themselves. Here are the top three struggles they see: Multiple deployments: “When you’re apart, you grow, but you’re growing without one another. That makes it hard during the reintegration period.” Frequent moving: “You start over every time. […]

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