{"id":4003,"date":"2020-04-10T16:13:06","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T16:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/?p=4003"},"modified":"2020-04-10T16:15:34","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T16:15:34","slug":"mdng-chaplains-adapt-religious-observance-with-covid-19-response-guidelines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/2020\/04\/10\/mdng-chaplains-adapt-religious-observance-with-covid-19-response-guidelines\/","title":{"rendered":"MDNG Chaplains Adapt Religious Observance with COVID-19 Response Guidelines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>By Sgt. James D. Nowell-Coleman, 29th Mobile Public Affairs\u00a0Detachment\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2020\/04\/chap1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4006 \" src=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2020\/04\/chap1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2020\/04\/chap1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2020\/04\/chap1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2020\/04\/chap1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2020\/04\/chap1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2020\/04\/chap1.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ADELPHI, Md. (April 6, 2020) &#8212; As many in the country observe religious traditions this week, the Chaplain Corps is adjusting to the COVID-19 pandemic and the social distancing guidelines set by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. U.S. Army Chaplain (Maj.) Wayne Stinchcomb, 58th Troop Command brigade chaplain, is holding services for Soldiers, in preparation for Easter Sunday. In what is typically a busy <a href=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2020\/04\/unnamed.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-4009 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2020\/04\/unnamed-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2020\/04\/unnamed-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2020\/04\/unnamed.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>week, Chaplin\u2019s are working even more due to the Maryland National Guard\u2019s response to COVID-19. Chaplains are compelled to host more services to adhere to the social distancing policy and limitations of personnel in one location to ensure all service members who wish to partake can participate. Members who are taking part in communion received individually packaged communion wine and bread as an additional safety measure to prevent the spread of COVID-19.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cHonestly, we are doing a lot more chaplain services weekly, helping build morale, checking in with soldiers, and covering down with units [without] chaplains,\u201d said Stinchcomb. \u201cBut we are getting more connected with Soldiers because we have more time with Soldiers.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2020\/04\/unnamed-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4008 \" src=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2020\/04\/unnamed-2-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"479\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2020\/04\/unnamed-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2020\/04\/unnamed-2.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 479px) 100vw, 479px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sgt. James D. Nowell-Coleman, 29th Mobile Public Affairs\u00a0Detachment\u00a0 ADELPHI, Md. (April 6, 2020) &#8212; As many in the country observe religious traditions this week, the Chaplain Corps is adjusting to the COVID-19 pandemic and the social distancing guidelines set by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. U.S. Army Chaplain (Maj.) Wayne Stinchcomb, 58th<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/2020\/04\/10\/mdng-chaplains-adapt-religious-observance-with-covid-19-response-guidelines\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":160,"featured_media":4010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/160"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4003"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4015,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4003\/revisions\/4015"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}