Initiatives
Reignition Path
RE-IGNITION PATH
The Re-Ignition Path follows four transitional, re-connecting processes & phases during each of these stages of transition - The Leadership Re-ignition Process, the Family Re-Union Process, the Narrative Re-integration Process, and the Spiritual Re-Alignment Process. The ReIgnition Path follows four transitional, re-connecting processes & phases. The Leadership Re-Ignition Process, the Family Re-Union Process, the Narrative Re-Integration Process, and the Spiritual Re-Alignment Process.
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Leadership Re-Ignition Process
We believe that every person who serves/served in the Armed Forces has leadership potential and capabilities. The Leadership Re-Itgnition Procees will focus on strengths, character, narrative intelligence, emotional health, and synergy & overcoming strategies. The best available programs and practices will be utilized. Below are featured intitiatives being used to impact US Military and Veterans. Click on the logos to learn more . . .
Family Re-Union Process
We believe that every person who serves/served in the Armed Forces deserves the support of a family structure that has been equipped with Christ-centered solutions ffor overcoming the destructive effects of combat trauma, and especially PTSD.The Family Re-Union Process will focus on spouse and family realignment through peer coaching, counseling, seminars, & web-based mentoring. The best available programs and practices will be utilized. Below are featured intitiatives being used to impact US Military and Veterans. Click on the Logos below to learn more . . .
Narrative Re-Integration Process
We believe that every person who serves/served in the Armed Forces was created to live in a narrative community and that the process of transition is strengthened by peer interfacing. The Narrative Re-integration Process will focus on implementing a challenge & peer coaching process to recovery and overcoming in community while addressing the spiritual injury scale. In addition, models like The Restoried-Life [Principled Story model depicted below] and Life-Mapping will be utilized. The best available programs and practices will be utilized. Below are featured an intitiative being developed to impact US Military and Veterans. Click on the diagram below to learn more . . .
Spiritual Re-Alignment Process
We believe that every person who serves/served in the Armed Forces has been created by God to experience God's grace in order to live the life God intended for them to life. We bleive this is best experienced and lived out in a community of fiath, love, and hope. The Spiritual Re-Alignment Procees will focus personal, contextual and community re-assertion/re-negotiation into best practices of spiritual formation and strategic multiplication. The best available programs and practices will be utilized. Below are featured intitiatives being used to impact US Military and Veterans. Click on the Logo below to learn more . . .
THE STRENGTH & HONOR INITIATIVE EXPANDS the transition care process for US Military during stages of transition as well as igniting strategic and initial projects targeting 10,000 Soldiers, Sailors, Airman, & Marines and 100 mentor/coaches. This transition program will seek to increase the leadership impact they will have in the US Military while addressing the specific needs & questions that they commonly face by providing an assessment platform that is both a Best Practice Talent inventory and Challenge Model. The StrengthsFinder talent assessment will be retooled as an initial entree. The goal is to rapidly expand/extend this care process to all who have been deployed during OEF & OIF as well as those who have transitioned as veterans.
Taking ques from the DOD's Cheif Chaplains Offices, VA Chaplain Services and with organizations like Protestant Women of the Chapel, Women in Politics, the Gallup Organization, the American Bible Society's Armed Services Ministry - RE- IGNITION seeks to maximize impact of our armed forces and ignite future programs designed to bring about culture & ethos change.
Contact us to find out how you can be part of this essential initiative.
Re-Alignment Intiatives
Here are a couple of featured initiatives we are endorsing . . . Click on logos to learn more
Another great resource for US Military & Veterans and their families is 411God . . .
What if God came to you? What if He helped you know what to do? What if He gave you confidence about your future? How bout if He called you on your cell? Would ya answer?
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Check it out: it's a minute of Bible on your phone.
Now, when their cell phone rings, people everywhere can listen to God's Word and start to know Him better. Would you help us make it happen?
This new service is called 411God. The Bible read just for you. The way you understand it; when its cool for you. Morningnoonnight. You set the time. Your phone rings....You answeryou listen.
Simple. Convenient. Understandable. Life Changing.
Were all busy people. So, get the Bible on your phone with 411God.
WHAT IS THE E100 CHALLENGE?
The Essential 100 Challenge™ (The E100) is an effective Bible reading program built around 100 carefully selected short Bible passages 50 from the Old Testament and 50 from the New Testament. It enables people in your church to get the big picture of God's Word and in the process develop a daily Bible reading habit. US Military & Veterans and their families face tremendous stress and the E100 is proving to be a vital resource in helping them during times of transition.
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The Combat Trauma Healing Manual offers spiritual solutions for struggles with PTSD by helping construct an environment that will give God optimal access to the wounded soul. Designed for individual or group study, the Combat Trauma Healing Manual combines the latest insights of the medical and counseling communities with the timeless principles of Gods Word. The book outlines a step-by-step program that will help PTSD sufferers
• Understand your trauma spiritually, psychologically and physiologically
• Adopt therapeutic spiritual disciplines to bring you closer to God
• Process your loss and grief
• Experience the freeing influence of giving and receiving forgiveness
• Rebuild your identity based on what God says about you
• Strengthen yourself spiritually against future attacks
• Connect with those who will support you in many ways
• Define plans to fully reintegrate into society as a strengthened man or woman of God
From the Introduction
The reality of war is that everyone gets wounded. Some wounds heal rapidly, but some last for a lifetime. The reality is that the wounds of heart, soul and spirit have a spiritual component that is not being adequately addressed. Despite the valiant efforts of many organizations and the commitment of billions of dollars to address these issues, there remains a serious gap the faith gap.
Major General Robert F. Dees, US Army (Retired), Executive Director, Military Ministry
From the Prologue
My family and I thought leaving the Army would remove me from the dangers of war. I had survived war and had come home, safe at last. Now I could focus on being a parent and a husband. But upon leaving the Army, I entered a different kind of fight: the war for my own heart and mind. I went face-to-face with my memories, with the horrors and stresses of combat-and lost.
Questions and doubts ravaged my mind: Why did I survive and my men die? Why did they send me there? Why does God allow such terrible wars to happen? Why cant I feel anything?
Ashamed of the man I had become and unable to reconcile war, I reached a breaking point. I was highly praised and decorated for leadership under fire-yet I anguished in the aftermath of war. I realized I was about to lose everything: my marriage, my family, even my life. I had led a daring rescue mission and found myself in dire need of rescuing. I had fought to keep a promise-to never leave a fallen comrade-but who would keep that promise to me?
Former Captain Nathan Self, US Army Rangers
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The American Bible Society has partnered with the Veterans Administration Chaplains Services to create a series of eight Scripture portions, each one addressing the counseling issues identified as the Spiritual Injury Scale. These eight Scripture portions, titled 'God Understands Comfort and Hope from the Scriptures,' are a life-impact tool that chaplains and family members can utilize when helping veterans deal with:
1. Guilt - Do you often feel guilty over past behaviors?
2. Anger / Resentment - Does anger or resentment block your peace of mind?
3. Sadness / Grief - Do you often feel sad or experience grief?
4. Meaning / Purpose - Do you feel that life has no meaning or purpose?
5. Despair / Hopeless - Do you often feel despair or hopeless?
6. Fairness - Do you feel that God or life has treated you unfairly?
7. Doubts / Disbelief Do you worry about your doubts about / disbelief in God?
8. Fear of Death - Do you worry about or fear death?
The Uprising Experience is more than a workbook. It is a life storyboard through which you begin to write your own epic tale. In this companion to the highly acclaimed Uprising, Erwin Raphael McManus guides, and sometimes urges, you on a journey to awaken the hero within you and to live your God-breathed dreams. Erwin insists that you exist because God had you in mind. And when you embrace this, you will be inspired to live beyond yourself. In concert with the Promise Keepers Uprising events, this life storyboard guides you through a process that awakens within you the warrior-poet-sage you were created to become.
It is our dream at the Re-Ignition Project to partner with Alwaken and develop this resource into a foundational, best practice tool available to US Military & Veterans
Making the World Human Again is the eye-opening first book from innovative thinker Alex McManus. His premise is simple: contrary to popular opinion, Jesus Christ came neither to teach Christianity nor to establish a religion. He came to make the world human again.
What is Jesus' role in the 21st century "post-Christian" world? Author Alex McManus offers an answer sure to get people talking.
According to McManus, contrary to popular opinion, Jesus Christ came neither to teach Christianity nor to establish a religionat least as "Christianity" and "religion" are commonly understood. He came to make the world human again. The goal of the life and teaching of Jesus is to reconnect us with the human future God is creating and to enlist our willing participation. What Jesus wants for all peoplewhether religious or secular, Republican or Democrat, liberal or conservativeis that they turn away from destructive, non life-giving systems and join him in the quest to "take back the future" for humanity.
This first book from McManus seeks to:
• Strengthen the message of the 21st century church
• Reach Christians outside traditional evangelicalism
• Include the questions non-Christian seekers have about God
It is our dream at the Re-Ignition Project to partner with Alex and develop this resource into a foundational, best practice tool available to US Military & Veterans
Restoried Life Initiative
We believe that everyone who serves/served in the armed forces are to be honored as leaders in their families and communities. Leaders overcome trauma by the restorying of their lives in the process of retelling their story, remembering Gods story, and responding to the stories of others.
The potential for dealing with and overcoming trauma through stories is great. So often US Military and Veterans realize that traumas are simply a part of our life stories. In a sense, stories tell us that trauma is going to happen. Our life stories allow us to view our trauma in perspective. Stories have the power to reveal our trauma in context and expose their implications on life. When we recognize that our stories are broken, we begin to see that we need help to heal them. This is true whether we intend to replace our stories with another or create a new story. We make a logical assertion that we need a higher, greater, even an eternal story in the process of healing. Through responding to God's story we can learn to see anew and understand our traumas.
A leader who overcomes is one who is growing in the image of Christ, has had God retell the story of his life (moving towards a preferred future and new story in Christ), and has learned to live and lead as both receiving and giving grace. To receive grace is to be fully and profoundly aware of what God has done for you and continues to do for you in Jesus Christ. We identify with Peter's breakfast conversation with Jesus. To give grace is to respond to others near you in the image of God. We realize God's intent and purposes with Joseph. This person may seem insignificant by our estimation, utt in eternity they will be honored as a true disciple of Christ.
We are in the process of developing thie 'restoried life' [Principled Story] model to make it available for US Military and Veterans.
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