FReeper Canteen ~ Guest Military Chaplain ~ August 1 2004

http://www.ifca.org/Chaplain/Military/Searle-Korea.htm ^ | Chaplain Tom Searle (USAF)

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	CHAPLAINS DIARY Chaplain Searle is deployed to OSAN AB, So. Korea for a year. He shared with me via email the following incident in the missionary ministry the Lord has given him in your Air Force. Please remember Tom in prayer as well as your other military chaplains who share similar opportunities to touch lives with the love of the Lord. I just got out of a counseling situation a few minutes ago that I wanted to share. A young man from the one of my squadrons just found out that his older brother hanged himself and the First Sergeant called to bring him by. As the young man and I were talking, I asked if he was feeling overwhelmed with emotion and grief. He said that this was not all he was dealing with. He continued to tell me that he has been back from his mid-tour leave for 6 days, and while he was home his wife told him that she wanted a divorce. They have two children. He also has a tumor that needs to be removed which is undergoing some testing, he is trying to cancel his follow-on assignment to Aviano so he can get back to the states and try to work through his family situation. That may or may not go through. He is also having trouble getting a promotion testing date. Needless to say, he said that everywhere he turns, there is no hope. I asked if he had turned upwards, and he nodded his head and said that's what he needed. I gave him a bible and when I asked if I could pray with him, he said "I really need it" and put his arms around me and cried on my shoulder as we prayed. His supervisor was in the office with us and cried also. These are tough blue collar men! What a privilege it is to stand in the place of Jesus and offer His compassion and hope to people who have nowhere else to turn. We have the truth, the light, the joy, the hope; but it seems that so often people are not willing to accept it until their pain drives them to it. Just a quick snapshot of how my day ended. God's blessings to you, Chaplain Tom Searle (USAF)

[StarCMC]

Those boys can SING!

I have not yet gotten that to work. I need to try again. The program downloads take a while though - I'm wondering if I chose the wrong one. I just picked the newest one - should I have chosen something different?

[mylife]

Ben Wentzel day! Huuzaahhh!

[laurenmarlowe]

That's very kind of you. I really like all kinds of music, except the head-banging kind, I admire anyone who has any musical talent. My youngest son plays the fiddle (as in square dance type) and I love listening to him. I would listen to anything you send!

[mylife]

Hmmm I gennerally can get a 2 cd set in 45 min

[StarCMC]

Is that AWESOME or what??

[StarCMC]

Ok, lemme see what I can putt outta the closet! :o)

[StarCMC]

 

 

 

Orange Blossom Special

 

Click the chick for music

Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs

 

[mylife]

Here is one from that site that i really like Left over salmon I really dig the doby gray "give me the beat" part

[StarCMC]

I can download the MUSIC quickly, it's the program that seems to take a while to get. So I wanna make sure I choose the right one this time....

[mylife]

awesomely awsome! ;^)

[StarCMC]

Getting....

[StarCMC]

Woo-hoo - you got 250!!

[mylife]

Hmmm use that mkw VERSION 96

[laurenmarlowe]

THAT was COOL! Thanks! Very fun.

[mylife]

FLATT SCRUGGS ROCKS!

[mylife]

v96F ...thats what im using

[StarCMC]

Ok- I'm getting it. Funny - it's not taking as long today - I wonder if the site was just slow when I was there before for some reason!

[StarCMC]

You're welcome and I'm glad you liked! :o)

[StarCMC]

I had gotten the v97 BETA and couldn't figure out how to make it work!

[Radix]

Iraqi police officers walk past destroyed patrol vehicles after a car bomb blast in the northern city of Mosul Aug. 1, 2004. A suicide car bomb exploded outside a police station in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Sunday, killing at least five people and wounding more than 50, police and doctors said.

The new 2004 version of the "Blues Brothers" has just completed filming and the picture should be in the theatres by Christmas.

 

U.S. Army troops attend the site of an explosion outside a Chaldean church in the northern Iraq city of Mosul August 1, 2004.

For unexplained reasons there never seem to be any "before" pictures of MoJo and her vehicles.

 

U.S. Army soldiers gather at the scene of car bombing at a church in Mosul, Iraq, Sunday, Aug. 1, 2004.

Customers were lining up to complain to management about the damages to their cars at the new Mosul car wash.

 

An Iraqi journalist runs from the scene after an explosion next to an Assyrian church, just minutes after a blast at an Armenian church in Baghdad August 1, 2004. Car bombs exploded outside at least four Christian churches in central Baghdad Sunday.

Those Iraqi journalists sometimes look French to me when they are so fleet of foot.

 

 

French journalist Patrick Chauvel runs from the scene after an explosion next to an Assyrian church, just minutes after a blast at an Armenian church in Baghdad August 1, 2004. Car bombs exploded outside at least four Christian churches in central Baghdad Sunday.

At Reuters we report the news until we get it the way it is supposed to be.