Let me introduce you to someone you help a lot. Col. Ken Sampson has been a chaplain in the U.S. Army for 27 years. He has one of the hardest jobs of any pastor I can imagine. His flock is constantly changing, they\u2019re under incredible stress, they\u2019re young and they\u2019re facing fears that would rattle anyone. When my friend Chaplain Sampson gives soldiers something to read, he knows it can\u2019t sugarcoat the bad things people go through.<\/p>\n
Early in his career he came across a booklet from Guideposts<\/em> called “Thought Conditioners.” \u201cIt was great,\u201d he says, \u201cfull of Bible verses and practical help.\u201d He gave it to a guy in Special Forces and saw that it hit the mark. Even the size was just right, easy to carry around in a pocket.<\/p>\n Since then Chaplain Sampson has handed out hundreds of our booklets, not to mention countless copies of Guideposts<\/em> magazine. \u201cThe stories have the real-life stuff people struggle with,\u201d he says. \u201cAnd they offer a wide breadth of spiritual experience and perspective.\u201d<\/p>\n This is especially important because soldiers come from a variety of faith backgrounds.<\/p>\n Another thing he recommends is Daily Guideposts. \u201cI suggest that couples read the devotionals when they\u2019re separated during deployment. It gives them a way of staying in touch spiritually. My wife and I used the book when I was deployed in Afghanistan and it sure helped us.\u201d<\/p>\n Booklets, magazines, Daily Guideposts, including a special edition with a camouflage cover\u2014all are available free of charge to our military chaplains. We can be generous thanks to your donations.<\/p>\n Last year you helped us give our men and women in uniform 50,000 copies of Daily Guideposts, 700,000 magazines and 300,000 booklets. It\u2019s our way of making a hard job a little easier. Chaplain Sampson and I are both very grateful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Let me introduce you to someone you help a lot. Col. Ken Sampson has been a chaplain in the U.S. Army for 27 years. He has one of the hardest jobs of any pastor I can imagine. His flock is constantly changing, they\u2019re under incredible stress, they\u2019re young and they\u2019re facing fears that would rattle […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[199],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[2479],"class_list":["post-16967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people-helping-people"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n