To everyone in the USA: Have a blessed Thanksgiving! The office is closed from noon on the 25th through 30 November. A history of our Thanksgiving holiday is here.

Devotions for Warriors: A Christian Perspective of the Civil War contains stories from the U.S. Civil War and a spiritual perspective of use to both military and civilian Christians.

Veterans Day (USA)

November 11th

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget

that the highest appreciate is not to utter words,

but to live by them. -- John F. Kennedy

The amazing story of one Japanese diplomat who defied orders and saved 6,000 Jews from the Holocaust is at this link. Although ordered not to issue any travel visas, this hero and his wife signed up to 300 visas a day, not stopping for lunch and working well into the night. He was ordered to leave the country, but continued signing visas as his train was leaving. In 1985 Sugihara was awarded Israel's highest honor -- Righteous Among the Nations.

With the Lord

Paul Pettijohn, CCC Military Ministry associate director and former Officers' Christian Fellowship director, died early this morning following a brain aneurism. Please pray for his family, and give thanks for his devotion to military ministry through the years.

ACCTS staff member Linda Dunlap had her arm and shoulder amputated yesterday due to cancer and radiation damage. Praise God that she is on the road to recovery, and for Linda and Cal's remarkable, faith-filled example of perseverance during difficulties.

Military History: An amazing number of poignant Soviet war paintings can be found at this link.

Jodie Wang just returned from an ACCTS medical mission trip to China and reports that the three doctors who went with her treated 157 patients in one day alone! More news will follow.

Excellent sermons by Pastor Tim Keller of Redeemer Presbyterian Church are available at this link.

Are social media sites like Facebook part of a fad, or a social revolution? If they're part of a social revolution, how can Christians be a part of this revolution? These are questions that came to my mind after watching this amazing video [link].

This link tells this photo's story about a little girl who did not want her daddy to go to war.

6 October is Armed Forces Day in Egypt. Please pray that military Christians in Egypt will be able to fellowship together and share Christ's hope with their co-workers.

Check out this video tribute to a soldier's life: [link].

"The more I study nature,
the more I am amazed at the Creator."
-- Louis Pasteur







Photo: Tammi Rau Mether

Three new vice presidents were commissioned at the recent AMCF leadership meeting: Chaplain Eric Burton of Australia for the South Pacific, BGen David Wakaalo of Uganda for East Africa, and LtGen Lee, Kap Jin of Korea for East Asia. Please pray for these men as they help forward God's work among the military in their regions.