Over the weekend of 29-30 Aug 09 Chaplain John Murdoch ministered at the Sovereign Grace Baptist Church in Modesto, CA and the Crossroads Baptist Church of Tracy, CA. On Monday 31 August 09 Chaplain Murdoch and Pastor Tim Heinrich met with Chief Chris Bosch and discussed the development of a chaplaincy program for the City [...]
On behalf of the GARBC, we want to thank all of our Veterans and current Active Duty, Reserve, and National Guard members of every Branch of our military, for your service to our great country. Today in ceremonies all over America, people are taking time to stop and reflect on what you have purchased for [...]
On 17-18 Sept 09 Baptist Bible Seminary held its annual Chaplaincy Awareness days in order to bring in front of the College, Graduate School and Seminary student bodies the relevancy of chaplaincy ministry. Chaplains participated in dorm devotions, chapel, and an open forum lunch. Representatives from all branches of the military participated, as well as [...]
The annual National Boards and Conference of the United States Air Force Auxiliary Civil Air Patrol was held in San Antonio, Texas 2-5 Sept 09. Twelve of our Regular Baptist pastors participate as chaplains in CAP and three are a part of the Executive and Advisory Councils of the Chaplain Corps. Ch, Col Whit Woodard [...]
Left to right: CH (CPT) Mike Crawford, TSGT Jacob Getzelman, Senator Daryl Beall, MAJ Todd Essign (Battalion XO), CH (COL) John Murdoch, CAP
On 28 September 08 Faith Baptist Church of Fort Dodge, Iowa, held a Military Appreciation Service and welcomed home the Iowa Army National Guard unit and Chaplain, (CAPT) Michael Crawford, who is their [...]
Commander Tom Webber, CHC, USN is assigned to the 8th District Coast Guard and is stationed in New Orleans, LA. He writes: “Southern LA evacuated during both hurricanes and NOLA (GUSTAV) and Houston and Galveston (IKE) once each. Even though we evacuated our people, they were the first back into the area - [...]
Chaplain (1LT) Mark Worrell graduated from the Army Chaplain School located at Fort Jackson in Columbia, South Carolina on Thursday 4 September 2008. Mark is to report to his first duty assignment at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas, on September 11, and has been told he should be planning to deploy with [...]
Christopher and Amanda Anderson
Chris Anderson has received his commission as a chaplain with the US Army Reserves and has been assigned to a reserve unit in central New York. He has been pastor of the Hunts Corners Baptist Church in Marathon, NY since October of 2005. This past May he graduated from Baptist Bible Seminary [...]
On December 5th, 2007, eight people were killed in shootings by a young gunman at the Von Maur clothing store in Omaha, NE. Six others were wounded by his ak47 rifle. As a police chaplain I was called out with about 20 other chaplains to minister to the survivors and their families. I was the [...]
Cortland, N.Y.—Chaplain Norm Stitzel, a GARBC endorsed lay chaplain and member of Faith Baptist Church of Cortland, New York, received the Meritorious Service Award this year for his service as Commandant and Chaplain of the United States Marine Corps League Detachment #221.
The award reads: “In appreciation and gratitude for meritorious service in the interests of [...]
