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Camp David Chaplain: "First we get the military, then we get the nation"
Carey Cash, a relative of famous country singer Johnny Cash, is a Navy chaplain who survived some of the heaviest fighting during the initial US invasion of Iraq. Cash is now head pastor of Camp David's Evergreen Chapel. As reported in a July 13, 2005 Minneapolis City Paper story titled Onward Christian Soldiers, on the day before Independence Day in 2005 churchgoers at the Minneapolis Eden Prairie Grace Church, a megachurch with over 4,000 seats, were treated to a speech by Retired Major General Bob Dees, head of Campus Crusade For Christ's Military Ministries. Dees told the church audience,
"We are a ministry to the armed forces of the United States, and to the armed forces of the world, seeking to win the nations of the world and the militaries of the world," begins Dees. "We have several ministries. One is to the enlisted members of all the defense forces of the United States. We touch every recruit that comes through the armed forces of the United States. And then we seek to evangelize and disciple them through their careers, making them ambassadors in uniform. After Dees concluded his speech, a videotaped presentation from chaplain Carey Cash appeared on the huge megachurch projection screen and during his talk Carey told the crowd, "First we get the military, then we get the nation." Bob Dee's states, in promotional videos made for his Military Ministry, a division of the sprawling, international 1/2 billion dollar per year budget Campus Crusade For Christ, that "The first strategic objective is to evangelize and disciple the enlisted members of the US armed forces."
Campus Crusade also runs a controversial ministry that targets officers in the Pentagon, Christian Embassy, which was the center of a 2006 and 2007 controversy concerning a promotional video which featured footage taken within the Pentagon of top ranking officers in uniform touting the work of the Christian Embassy. Outrage over the video provoked a subsequent Pentagon investigation that largely confirmed accusations of abuse made by the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, which fights improper and abusive evangelizing, and upholds freedom of worship rights, in the United States Military. Military Ministries currently sells two books by Carey Cash (1, 2).
Camp David Chaplain: "First we get the military, then we get the nation" | 25 comments (25 topical, 0 hidden)
Camp David Chaplain: "First we get the military, then we get the nation" | 25 comments (25 topical, 0 hidden)
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