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Bonus episode: What are you doing this summer?

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Kentucky, Army ROTC Cadet Summer Training

ROTC Local Leader: Bob Deckard Email: [email protected] Phone: 317-997-6623 Please contact me for additional information. Cadet Bible studies are conducted from June – mid August on Sunday and Wednesday evenings from 2000 – 2100 at the PT Pit directly behind O’Neil […]

The View from the Top

[…]I met God on the mountaintop. Will you? There is room for you at one of the RMH weeks this summer — including the first-ever RMH for couples! Find more information about dates, programs, and scholarships or tap into the RMH blog — and make plans to meet God on the mountaintop this […]

A day in the life of OCF

[…]arrival to Pensacola, starting next year, began earlier this year with their trip to WSS for summer camp. When Pensacola’s upcoming vacancy was announced, the Arnolds’ desire to “better serve God in the military community“ spurred them to apply for and be selected to that position.  At this hour in Pensacola, after ten years of service to the Lord, the last fellowship gathering in Mike and Arden Patterson’s home has concluded. While the group of fifty is now gone, having shared laughter, fellowship, and twenty-seven pounds of Shepherd’s pie, this final night’s emotional impact has just arrived. Eagerly anticipating the […]

Finishing Strong, in Iraq and Life

[…]danger. And now just over eight years later on 21 December, the war in Iraq officially ended. Last summer while performing and ministering to our military personnel there, a question emerged in my mind: are we finishing strong? Finishing strong in any endeavor depends on knowing where we started. The military mission in Iraq went through its own evolutionary process, and now the finish looks like this: the U.S. presence in Iraq created the opportunity for a divided nation to unite democratically under one flag and voice. And If Iraq embraces this prospect through wise choices, they will pass on […]

Time, Talent, Treasure: Retirees

[…]studies as a West Point cadet, attended OCU conferences, and was at Spring Canyon’s first-ever summer camp season in 1962. The Vaughns also serve as Spring Canyon Advisory Council members. Feeling “especially burdened for those in the military, ” over the years the Vaughns led chapel Bible studies, mentored couples and ministered to West Point cadets. “Both of us came from chapel-going families, but neither one of us really heard about Jesus there,” said Kit, a former Army nurse. “It’s easy to think you are ready for heaven, when totally blind to the truth.” It was at a ROTC retreat […]

Ice Cream in Iraq

[…]The temperature here at night right now usually gets down to nearly freezing. However, in the summer time, it gets up to 120-130 degrees Fahrenheit. 7. Are there a lot of camels running around? I’m pretty sure there are but I have never seen any of them. I’ll keep looking though! 8. Do you have any friends in Iraq?I have lots of friends here. Many of them are people I came here with when we left Hawaii. Many of them have children in school just like me. I hope they are getting letters from their son or daughter’s classmates like […]

It Didn’t Surprise God

[…]treatments. The first radiation treatment was completed just before the Air Force moved us last summer. Then after finding a new doctor in Kansas, the December images from the second radioactive treatment revealed the possibility that the cancer had spread to two spots within Heather’s chest cavity. Our concern was replaced with thanksgiving in February when the positron emission tomography (PET) scan showed no sign of cancer. Hallelujah!! Although we have been privileged to experience many blessings through the course of Heather’s treatment, three are prominent. First, God’s sovereignty was impressed upon our hearts. What appeared as calamity when cancer […]

Laborers and Laboring as Unto the Lord

[…]worker, Labor Day’s holiday observance has evolved to where today it’s the unofficial end of summer and its plethora of warm weather activities. One last picnic, trip to the beach, or pitched tent in the great outdoor before green leaves take on the rusted glow of autumn. And lest risking a fashion faux pas–no more white purse or slacks past September 5, either! Oregon was the first state legalizing a holiday in honor of workers, doing so in 1887. Seven years later Congress followed suit nationally by declaring the first Monday of each September a legal holiday in observance of […]

Members: Cast your vote now for OCF Council

[…]Jesus as my Lord and Savior when I was seven years old and my great-grandfather baptized me that summer. Though I struggled through the teens and college, God placed people in my path to steer me back towards Him and I have been truly blessed. What is the biggest challenge you see currently facing OCF right now? Meeting the strategic challenge of an active anti-Christian metaculture currently present in not only the general populace but the federal government. For OCF the challenge becomes one of empowering and encouraging its members to provide the resources to make the current vision real. […]

OCF Groups and You

by Beth Dowty Summer can be an exciting time of change in military life. For those of you who just commissioned—hallelujah! You’re already at or are looking forward to your first assignment. While some have completed ACSC, while others are PCSing. Many of you left a great OCF group behind, but there’s no OCF study where you are or else the Bible study is very different. Now what? What should an OCF fellowship group look like in this new place? An OCF fellowship group can look like a lot of things—there is no “authorized” cookie-cutter model. However, sometimes it involves […]

Part of an amazing lineage

[…]the hard question each of us must answer: “What am I doing to extend the genealogy?”   This summer I had the privilege of participating in two events that exemplified the legacy of Christ, where His lineage is being carried on. On Memorial Day at OCF’s Spring Canyon conference center, the newly constructed Fort Shine Lodge was dedicated to the memory of 1LT Jonathan Cameron Shine, who gave his last full measure in service to his Lord and his nation in October 1970.  What we celebrated was not 1LT Jon Shine’s death, but his life. For in his last moments […]

Share this spiritual gift with your teen

[…]and to offer to Brian a special time for us to share. We reserved two spots for the second summer session and coordinated ground transportation to SC through the OCF web site. (The packing list was very helpful, too!) Father-Teen Adventure is not just for fathers and their sons. Daughters can come, too, and they have just as much fun and grow just as close to their dads. FTA is special. It is a journey with your child. It is physically challenging and fun, emotionally exhausting at times and yet refreshing, and it is a spiritual gift that you can […]

Six Generations: 1

[…]between Beast Barracks and the academic year, when all the upperclassmen return from their summer duties, trips and vacations, Jon confronted me while they stood in formation ready to march to the dining hall for dinner. His simple question to me as I stood at a stiff position of attention, chin well to the rear, was, “Cadet Willey, would you like to participate in a Bible study in the company after duty hours?” Somewhat taken aback, but pleasantly relieved that there were other Christian believers within the Corps of Cadets, I muttered a quick, “Yes, sir!” That brief encounter changed […]

Six Generations: 3

[…]a member of OCF since his days as a West Point cadet and participated in a European “Summer Safari” with the late Cleo Buxton in 1972. He has published articles in COMMAND magazine and in the book, “Deployed But Not Disconnected”. Reprint Information If you wish to reprint this article please use the following copyright notice: “Downloaded and reprinted by permission of Officers’ Christian Fellowship of the USA, Englewood, Colorado. Authored by Colonel Barry Willey, USA (Ret.). All rights reserved.” Copyright Information 2004 Colonel Barry Willey, USA (Ret.), by special arrangement with Officers’ Christian Fellowship of the USA. No portion […]

The Lord—your refuge in a high optempo

[…]but an uninterrupted period of time just enjoying being in the presence of the Lord?   Last summer I took part in OCF’s Rocky Mountain High outdoor leadership program. After a two-day trek, on the eve of summiting a 14er in the Rockies, we reached timberline. This marks the time and place where everyone stops—to catch their breath and take time to be quiet and listen to God. Freeing myself of my loaded backpack, I separated from my fellow hikers and sought solitude, finding a place among the outcropping of rocks to sit. From this vantage point, I was moved […]

The Role of the Chaplain

[…]from the pulpit. Adapted from the originally published articlein COMMAND magazine, Vol. 39 No. 2, Summer 1990. At that time Dave was vice commandant at The U.S. Air Force Chaplain School at Maxwell AFB, Alabama. He was an Episcopal chaplain and a former Marine Corps line […]
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Time, Talent, Treasure: OCF small group fellowships

[…]a local food bank, Operation Christmas Child, and a Habitat for Humanity project, where this past summer nearly a dozen Naval and Coast Guard officers, spouses and kids helped build a house. “There was a lot of manual labor, but just to be able to meet the gal that was going to be living there made it more meaningful,” said leader Jennifer Corbin. “It was just a neat experience to be a part of.” In the life of the active duty family, it can be easy to focus solely on service to our country, but Christ reminds us that our […]
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Time, Talent, Treasure: ROTC

[…]cadets with local churches and church services, and send letters to cadets during their stressful summer training events.   Rob says the VT cadets, always observing the ever-growing morally confused, anti-God culture around them, most often want to discuss topics such as “how to truly live as a Christian in the military, what they are allowed to share of the Gospel, and balancing military life pressures with their walk with God, and marriage.”  Rob, Chandra and staff all meet for Bible study, prayer and community time before mentoring the students, who in turn lead Bible studies or disciple others—and often […]

What Are Parents to Do?

[…]punishment of the wicked. For Darren’s mid-tour leave, the only thing he wanted to do was join a summer retreat session at OCF’s Spring Canyon Conference Center in Colorado. We were overjoyed to be able to bring the entire family. Although the time with Darren was short, and we knew the return to Afghanistan would be mentally tough for a period, we remained excited to hear of his work and his challenges. And we prayed, and prayed, and prayed. If you make the Most High your dwelling–even the Lord who is my refuge–then no harm will befall you, no disaster […]

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