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FIGHT OF FAITH

Jeff Struecker knows exactly when God called him to be an Army Chaplain. He was in Mogadishu, Somalia, with rocket-propelled grenades flying though the air, barely missing his Humvee. Struecker and his fellow rangers and Delta force commandos were fighting for their lives in a city that had become a maze of gunfire and grenades.

Eighteen American soldiers and hundreds of Somalis died in the seventeen-hour battle in October 1993. The fighting erupted when Army rangers headed out on a mission to capture a local warlord and Somalis shot down an army helicopter.

Struecker says, “ In the middle of that firefight, I had to decide whether I believed what I say I believe. And when I finally answered that question, my faith gave me the strength to fight the rest of the night.”

Today, Struecker is an Army Chaplain with an airborne field artillery unit in North Carolina. He says the experience created in him a “bullet-proof faith” and an “unwavering loyalty to his fellow soldiers and to his country.” He says, “ In the event my soldiers were getting into a plane tonight, I would stand right with them, absolutely.”

—Readers Digest, April 2002, (Frank Hernandez in The Gazette, Cedar Rapids Iowa), pg. 136-137. Illustration by Jim L. Wilson and Jim Sandell

1 Timothy 6:12 NIV “Fight the good fight of faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called when you made your good confession in the presence of many witnesses.”