Ministry in the military and beyond

I’ve written about folks who do ministry to/in the military occasionally here on the blog (there was this post, once upon a time, which turned into this article in The Briefing), and how I used to be involved as a “civilian” anchor in a military bible fellowship. Well, I was encouraged this afternoon to watch this little video, of one of the people I met in those spheres, who is moving out of military chaplaincy to plant a church in Geelong, Victoria.

I first became quite good friends with Andrew’s brother, Matt, through a church in Toowoomba, where Matt was stationed as a helicopter pilot in the Army, then met Andrew on a conference for Christians in the Military, then went on a ski trip with some folks from that conference and the other brother Nathan (who went on to be a Rhodes Scholar and is now a doctor in India) and his wife came along on that. (All the brothers are a little bit extraordinary. Recently on Facebook I noticed pictures of the Governer-General on their family farm – I don’t know what she was there for, but no doubt someone has been remarkable.) But, all that aside, watch this video and be encouraged by the work that God is doing in places you might not be so familiar with, including Kapooka.