On Wednesday Van and Jane Bloss, our IPHC missionaries, sent an email with an attachment of a copy of the June 6, 1970 Advocate with a photo of Robert L. Rex, Assistant General Superintendent of the IPHC on the front page of our Advocate with the pilot of an F106 All weather fighter interceptor aircraft and Hugh Morgan the chaplain to this fighter squadron at Elmendorf AFB, Alaska.
It was my joy to have the Rev. Dr. Robert L. Rex, Assistant General Superintendent of the Pentecostal Holiness Church, to visit Elmendorf Air Force Base where I was assigned as the chaplain to the F106 All-weather, Delta Dart Fighter Interceptor in 1970.
I was the Director of Protestant Religious Education, and God helped us to build the largest Sunday school in the Air Force during my three-year assignment to Elmendorf Air Force Base, from May 1967 to May 1970.
Brother Rex spent the day with me and visited with the Command Chaplain, my base commander, and my immediate boss, Chaplain, Colonel, Victor H. Schroeder. In addition, I took him aboard a C141 Aircraft with wounded soldiers, sailors, marines, and airmen on there way to hospitals in the east. That was one of our ministries to our wounded men.
That evening Melvine prepared a Southern supper meal and we invited Olaf Haug, pastor of the Anchorage P. H. Church, and James Gamble, missionary to Bethel, Alaska, to join with Brother Robert L. Rex for a great supper in our home on the base.
I was the Director of Protestant Religious Education, and God helped us to build the largest Sunday school in the Air Force during my three-year assignment to Elmendorf Air Force Base, from May 1967 to May 1970.
Brother Rex spent the day with me and visited with the Command Chaplain, my base commander, and my immediate boss, Chaplain, Colonel, Victor H. Schroeder. In addition, I took him aboard a C141 Aircraft with wounded soldiers, sailors, marines, and airmen on there way to hospitals in the east. That was one of our ministries to our wounded men.
That evening Melvine prepared a Southern supper meal and we invited Olaf Haug, pastor of the Anchorage P. H. Church, and James Gamble, missionary to Bethel, Alaska, to join with Brother Robert L. Rex for a great supper in our home on the base.
I want to thank Jane and Van Boss for finding this Advocate and sending a copy of it via email attachment. I have asked them to mail the copy of this Advocate to me. It brings back a flood of wonderful memories of my service and ministry to the Air Force during the prime of my life.
Melvine, Greg, and Stephanie were privileged to accompany me. I was scheduled to go to Vietnam for one year on a remote assignment, however, the Chief of Air Force Chaplains wanted me to take over a Sunday school program that was in need of restructuring. God helped me to do it, and I took over the Sunday night Protestant Worship Service and God blessed that ministry too. It gave me an opportunity to preach every Sunday night.
Melvine, Greg, and Stephanie were privileged to accompany me. I was scheduled to go to Vietnam for one year on a remote assignment, however, the Chief of Air Force Chaplains wanted me to take over a Sunday school program that was in need of restructuring. God helped me to do it, and I took over the Sunday night Protestant Worship Service and God blessed that ministry too. It gave me an opportunity to preach every Sunday night.