TIL 369: Ministering to Military Families (feat. Aurelia Smith)
Truth in Love
Association of Certified Biblical Counselors
4.8 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2022
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
1. Why should biblical counselors equip themselves to counsel military families?
2. Unique challenges and blessings military family members face.
3. How can the church help military families?
4. Recommendations for counselors and families.
You can find Aurelia's book here
You can find Rob Green's booklets here and here
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| 0:00.0 | ministering to military families on this edition of Truth and Love. |
| 0:11.2 | I'm Dale Johnson and you're listening to Truth and Love, |
| 0:13.9 | a podcast of the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors, |
| 0:17.3 | where we seek to provide biblical solutions to the problems that people face. |
| 0:22.8 | This week on the podcast, I am joined with Aurelia Smith. She has been married to Nate, her |
| 0:28.9 | former military husband for 20 years. She's written a book called ministering to military |
| 0:34.9 | women. She's been an ACBC member since 2010. She also did an undergraduate |
| 0:40.6 | degree at the Air Force Academy and an MABC at the Masters University. And it's always fun for me to |
| 0:47.9 | talk to really, particularly about issues in the military and in ways that ACBC is sort of exploring |
| 0:53.0 | how we can do a better job at ministering to those who are associated with the military and in ways that ACBC sort of exploring how we can do a better job at ministering |
| 0:55.9 | to those who are associated with the military and who serve in the military. |
| 1:00.1 | Man, it's always fun to do that. |
| 1:01.9 | But really, I want to ask you, start off with this question just to ask you, why is this |
| 1:06.1 | issue, maybe I alluded to some of that in the, in the bio, but why is this issue so close to your heart? |
| 1:12.2 | Maybe you can go into a little bit of detail about that. |
| 1:15.7 | Absolutely. |
| 1:16.5 | Well, you know, my father was in the military. |
| 1:19.3 | So I was actually born into the military context. |
| 1:21.9 | And then as you mentioned, I went to the Air Force Academy undergrad and served in the military as an intelligence officer for a little over five years. |
| 1:30.1 | And that's actually where I met my husband, Nate, who served for 28 years, who pretty much just got out of the military at the end of 2019. |
| 1:37.1 | And so, you know, as a veteran, married to another military member and our entire existence, because my husband was also born into that context as well. His dad |
| 1:45.8 | was in the military. It's really a community and a context in which we have loved to serve, |
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