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Chaplain , Lieutenant Colonel David

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Jordan , full time support , chaplain

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for the Oklahoma National Guard . We're

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one of the oldest branches uh in the

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Army . Um And we've been around

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literally since the revolutionary war .

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And the reason being is to provide

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religious support . One of the ways

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that we , we talk about it is that we

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either provide for um the religious

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support of the soldier . And we also

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advise command on the religious impact

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of , of missions in the army . So we

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kinda have a twofold mission right

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now . We're only at about half strength

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total and of the half they're all

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protestant Christian chaplains and

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chaplain candidates . We absolutely

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would love to have a far more diverse

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chaplain corps than we do . For

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instance , we don't have , currently

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have a Catholic chaplain in the state

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of Oklahoma . We would love to have

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those of different faiths and then

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inside those faiths to have different

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denominations . So , what you're

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looking for is somebody who has a

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ministry calling . We wanna know that

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somebody has a calling and that they've

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received the training um on the

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civilian side for their ministry . And

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if they want to serve in a military

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setting and apply their ministry in a

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military setting . That's who , that's

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who we want . So I think what we have

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to offer on the guard side and guard

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chaplaincy , uh you can live here , you

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can serve here . Um You can be in your

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church on a more regular basis . We

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want you to be tied into your community

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more . And then when God forbid , if

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disaster happens and we need to respond ,

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um you get to put on the uniform

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potentially and , and serve that same

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community perhaps even . And I think

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that speaks to the servant heart of a

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person who's already doing ministry ,

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the number one thing that's most

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fulfilling . And I use my deployment to

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Afghanistan in 2011 , 2012 as a great

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example . That was one of our hardest

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deployments . We lost 14 soldiers

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hands down . The most difficult thing

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I've ever done in my life and yet the

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most rewarding because the need that

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they had to lean on me , the need I had

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to lean on them means that they trusted

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you , you trusted them and through a

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relationship built , ministry was able

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to happen . Uh That's a type of

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ministry that you will not get anywhere

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else . Think about this as an option .

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And it could be something that is in

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addition to not a takeaway from in your

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ministry .