Chaplain in Iraq ready ‘to die if I have to’ as witness for faith

[The Straight Story]

Chaplain in Iraq ready ‘to die if I have to’ as witness for faith

CAMP FALLUJAH, Iraq (BP)--There are many reasons to join the armed forces. Some join for college money. Others join out of a sense of patriotic duty. There are even some who join because they answered a call. Not a phone call, but a call from God.

Lt. Cmdr. Phillip Endel Lee, a Navy chaplain and assistant professor of preaching and pastoral ministry in New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary’s Leavell College, recalled how God used a combination of those factors to lead him into the military.

“From the time I was 9 years old I was working part-time jobs,” Lee recounted. “When I turned 14 I couldn’t even drive, but there were days where I would be walking around with hundreds of dollars in my pocket from selling farm produce on the side of the road.”

Lee joined a local Baptist church in Tanner Williams, Ala., at the age of 15 and surrendered to fulltime Christian service at the age of 17.

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[riverwalker]

1. serving his ego

"Christian service"?
Thou shalt not kill.
What part of that don't you understand, Lee?
"Lee also acts as the deputy coordinator for Protestant worship at Camp Fallujah." Was that before or after the dogs eating corpses of children we butchered and left rotting in the streets, Lee? Just wonderin'.