A chaplain who was interested in Freedom Fitness America the other day asked me how should he go about gaining the appropriate resources to include finances to enhance the total fitness of his unit by utilizing our tools. Understanding how to navigate supply, logistics, finances, and personnel resourcing is crucial if a chaplain or unit leader is to be successful in advocating for limited resources. In this blog post, I will show you how you can maximize your potential to do just that.

My 2 year old son's anxiety was getting worse and worse and would cry if my wife wouldn't sit in the same room with him for every game, every meal... everything. He wouldn't go in another room without my wife or in the backyard alone, even if she was just grabbing something from the kitchen real fast. The strain was hard on my wife and it was affecting the ability for us to communicate. It was hard for me as well because I was torn...I wanted to help but knew I could only do so much.

I was talking to a chaplain back in 2015, Steve Griffin, about his issue of getting "butts in seats" in terms of getting voluntary participation for events he and other partners hosted for the sake of military personnel particularly to support their spiritual and morale needs. Truth be told, he wasn't the only person struggling with this, its a well known pain point for almost all of the Christian faith based non-profits and chaplains I have served together with in the military community.