For the fifth time in the past year, our family is getting ready to host a guest who is coming to speak at our church. Chaplain Blake Bowers is coming to Preston Wesleyan this Sunday. We enjoy hosting our special guests. Chaplain Bowers recently returned from deployment in Iraq. He will be speaking to our High School class as well as during our Morning Worship service.
Chaplain Bowers follows Chaplain Ritchie, Jim Pickett (twice), the first one was a stopover bed and breakfast type visit. He came back a few months later to speak to our chuch about Global Partners and what we are doing in Mozambique. Shannon Rast came a few months later to tell us how God is working with Global Partners in Germany.
It’s been great to host these missionaries. Yes, my family considers military chaplains missionaries. In most cases they have bigger congregations than us civilian pastors. Many military personnel would never darken the doors of a church and yet they will routinely seek the help of a chaplain. Pray for those who are ministers to our military. They have a demanding spiritual job and many times it is away from home and family and in dangerous parts of the world.
We are looking forward to what Chaplain Bowers brings us this weekend.