I was looking through my files today, trying to figure out how to get a handle on all the little files and folders inside my hard drive. Sometimes when I am trying to move through my files, I run across a forgotten document that makes me stop and smile.
Every week or so, for the last several years, I have keep a little list of all the things that I do so that it is ready when I must write these contributions for an evaluation. When it gets time to write the contributions, I roll the list up into different groupings to make easier to read. In my files, I ran across a list the I rolled up when I was a Battalion Chaplain about five years ago. It makes me smile at the memory of it all. These were the days when I was having direct impact with hundreds of Soldiers—this is what a Battalion Chaplain does for his or her Battalion in a two-and-a-half-year time period.
2010-2012 Significant Events—CH Keith Andrews
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Provided Suicide Training, Pastoral Care, and Comprehensive Religious Support during 45 Weekly Chaplain’s In-Brief for 23rd BDE and 345th Training Squadron (USAF) influencing over 9000 Soldiers and 800 Airmen.
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Provided Pastoral Care for over 1200 Soldiers in one on one counseling, 3 Next of Kin Notifications, and 4 Military Funerals for Retired and Active Duty Personnel.
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Served as OIC of Heritage Chapel 0930 AIT Contemporary Service from September 2011-May2012.
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Ministered through providing prayer at 2 ribbon cutting ceremonies, 12 graduation ceremonies, and 5 Ceremonies (14 change of responsibility or command ceremonies, the Quartermaster Foundation Dinner, the Quartermaster Town Hall, the Distinguished Instructor of the Year Ceremony, the 2011 Fort Lee National Day of Prayer Breakfast, and the Wreath Laying Ceremony in Honor Of the 14th Quartermaster Detachment).
- Preached 19 times at Fort Lee Chapels to include the Memorial Chapel 1015 Service, Liberty Chapel, and Heritage Chapel and 3 community events representing the Religious Support Office at Fort Lee; Petersburg Baptist Association and the Ironbridge Baptist Youth Group, and the 2012 Fort Lee Easter Sunrise Service.