Warriors for Christ: An Army Chaplain's Story

Warriors for Christ: An Army Chaplain's Story
By Lee Webb
CBN News

CBNNews.com - Thousands of brave men and women put their lives on the line every day to serve in Iraq and Afghanistan.

It is on the battlefield where questions of life and death -- and life after death -- arise.

CBN recently spoke With Chaplain Major Derrick Riggs, whose job it is to answer those questions.

Iraq is probably one of the most dangerous places in the world-one where tragedy lurks around every corner, but Riggs sees it in a different way.

"This is a mission field," he said.

It has been said that there are no atheists in the fox holes.

And it's the job of the Christian chaplains to point soldiers to Jesus Christ.

Riggs is an army chaplain with the 82nd Airborne Division out of Fort Bragg, N.C., but that doesn't mean that chaplains spend their time stationed at the base, far away from the bullets and the IEDs.

They're right there, in the tanks and in the mud, jumping from the planes-all for the cause of Christ.

Riggs said, "They ask me about God, and if I'm not in the battle with them, it becomes difficult for me to talk to them."

And chaplains have to endure the long separation from family just like the troops they shepherd.

Chaplain Riggs won't be home until sometime next summer.