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haplain Stephen Show retired in 2015 after a distinguished career in the United States military. Chaplain Show has served in the Air Force and Air National Guard from 1976-1981, then became an Army Chaplain Reservist from 1986-2015, spending the last 9 years on active duty in the Pentagon. Ultimately, Chaplain Show ended his military career as a full Colonel in the United States Army. But for 25 of those years, Chaplain Show was also a pastor in Churches of God churches, like Kingwood and Lillyville in the Allegheny Region. We wanted to continue our discussion from our last issue about the impact that chaplains are having in our denomination, so we asked Chaplain and Pastor Stephen Show to tell us his story, and what it means to serve God and country.
Can you give us a brief overview of your chaplaincy ministry? I was commissioned on 31 January 1986; I was commissioned as a First Lieutenant in the United States Army Reserve. I was serving the Kingwood
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