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Chaplain Assistant Personal Statement

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For the last fifteen years I have served as an active duty Chaplain assistant in the United States Army. During that time I was responsible for providing central office administrative support by managing, and distributing correspondence, messages, forms and record keeping. I have Coordinated with organizations and agencies and acted as a liaison to augment Chaplain Programs and functions. I have conducted peer-to-peer counseling in the areas of grief management, suicide prevention, and organizational morale. Throughout my time in the Army I also learned such skills as conflict resolution, critical thinking and time management. I believe that these skills will be a great asset to achieving my goals and completing my degree at Colorado Christian University. The Bachelor of Arts in Biblical Studies degree program will allow me …show more content…

This became a works based salvation for me. I struggled with this “Religious” stuff because after trying for a while to do all of the “right things,” I grew tired and took part in the things of this world. Other events in my life growing up made me filled with anger. I didn’t like the anger so I would try to numb this anger with relationships. If I felt someone else liked me, then I would like myself as well. When I met the woman who now is my wife, we decided to get married. I knew the “right” thing to do would be to get married in a church. This led me back to God and His rules. I obeyed as best I could for a long time but a few years later I enlisted in the Army and was introduced to the numbing power of Alcohol. I began to believe the lie that I deserved to drink. Off and on for the next 9 years I would try and do the religious thing, but always found it easier to numb the anger rather than put on the act of what I thought a Christian looked like. I wanted to end the anger and all the pain that I was causing my wife and children, but I didn’t know

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