Operation Barnabas

Gentlemen,
From my family to yours, a blessed Christmastide and New Year. Thank you one and all for your support for Operation Barnabas! We are making progress, and it is in no small part due to your efforts!! Would you like to see a couple of things we are working on in the lab? As with all laboratory experiments, it is never guaranteed until it actually appears out in the wild. So, here is a sneak on some things we are working on…

1. Facilitating more opportunities for Lutheran Spirituality among chaplains. In February, I will be attending DOXOLOGY, a retreat provided to Lutheran Clergy. From an article in MERCY WORKS: The Lutheran Center for Spiritual Counsel and Care DOXOLOGY seeks to be of service to pastors by providing them with new tools to help people struggling with ever- increasing personal, family, and social complexities. DOXOLOGY’s program of study and reflection includes training in the classic art of soul care as well as insights from contemporary Christian psychology. For more information, head over to www.doxology.us
2. A more robust website for Operation Barnabas, including a weekly podcast. We’ll be interviewing individuals and entities who care for reservists and their families.
3. Creating a publicity blitz throughout the Synod recruiting current military members, their families and veterans. We believe if we can recruit a number in each congregation, you will soon be receiving more phone calls seeking more information and training
4. What else would you like to see? Drop me a comment below….

And this one is already out of the lab…we invite all Barnabas Counselors as well as chaplains who have deployed this past year to our Lutheran Chaplains conferences either in San Diego or Jacksonville.

Until next time, God bless and keep you as you serve Him and His people!