European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 24, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                August 1977 the stars and stripes a i by George Ebert staff writer a difficult area for the secular press to write said the Likely be tinder fire from one and the objector ridicule on the the subject the charismatic movement among forces n i was at it was a rental House of p an american tradition 1 Felt a ii was so a Breeze was 1 juried shaking and t thought i was i grabbed a Blanket Andl Ald on a heard a noise within 1 thought i was 1 heard a it was audible it seemed a Light kept going do and and the Light and the noise became i Felt like 1 was exploding with a burst f and out How a Joy Earold s Jan received the Gin of flies in whose spiritual trauma took place several Yean ago in the one of perhaps thousands of in Sterna from the new  ibo Tutte reasons the i  movement which had roadrunners take the word to Remote Sites at one Lime in god was on the Trail in the form of preachers on horse Back these circuit riders galloped from Vil Lage to Hamlet spreading the soul saving was their Rural with scattered the circuit rider has followed the Pony express into but this nomadic religious institution has survived in another time and place today it is still an american the names the circuit riders today Are known As their in line with the activism of the Modem has gone beyond preach ing to Day today matters of counselling troubled human these roadrunners arc american forsaking the horses of their they journey by jeep and truck to revolt mountaintops and isolated German valleys to nerve their Boondocks chaplain James usar elks chief of ecclesiastical said 35 of the army approximately 270 clergy men in Germany Are Nocha Peh often they operate without grabbing any available office 11 is Mil unusual for them to be priest and rabbi and minister rolled into As Edgren the european healer May be one b the few places in the world where All i denominations sit in chaplain Joe who Waves off any reference to his rank of said he has prayed with dying catholics and baptised by immersion 13 adults of various protes Tant faiths in Worley is meth his realm stretches from Graf to re the Clergyman said training Lay people to Lead utile studies and religious education is an important part of his roadrunner last Worley  get to Regensburg because of Snow and icy but services were held under Lay and Pablo a 32nd Aad com Clergyman based in puts As much As Miles per month on the earning Captain bars takes chaplains years what does it take to become a chaplain a chaplain must have a bachelors three years s 90 hours of graduate work in an accredited approval of the Church and be there is also an age limit although it has been waived on the requirements Ace levied by the department of which also demands that candidates pass the Standard phys some churches require thai a chaplain have three years of Parish Wurfl As whatever his religious the decision to enter the service today is the in but a chaplain is Subj cd to recall at any t Ime by us Road in a jeep a ministry Complete with bouncing helping Young servicemen and Ihler families solve problems created by Economy living without command support makes up a sizable part of the Road run sympathizing Ullh married la rank chaplain f Msj Robert until recently Tho Marnstein based minister within the sprawling 32nd army air de sense command was of tsp who returned to the in late said the system is heavily weighted in favor of ship rank has Ila Privi he noted that when salary hikes Are they often ure granted by percent age o income Low paid service personnel get proportionately less than higher rank who has ii years in the ran a innovative tour ministry to help Young singles escape the Barracks and Young marrieds brighten the often dreary prison of Economy he admitted that part of the problem is one of budget and finance perhaps we need to counsel some of our personnel in this saying that Low rankers and their families get link1 or no financial assistance to alleviate Money problems on the he when you look at human theres no rank Structure that without severe Worley  favor switching shifting Hig rankers onto he Economy and placing Tow rankers and families into military by he 1 counsel More officers and if you throw them out on the there going to be More la Crool Sites Earl head chaplain for 32nd supervises 20 chaplains All roadrunners serving the 32nds scat Remote missile the colonels chaplains find that work demands on husbands can Lead wives to take out their frustrations on the he said his people learn of instances of child abuse and heavy one of the ends roadrunners is Chap lain John who operates out of Wacker Helm in the heart of the wine country West of he organizes week end Tours for personnel at Remote its a lot of but Worth anything to get the troops out of be chaplains in whether Road run Ning or sitting have not forgotten spiritual but troubled people cant be ignored As Worley put it in a any person who has a need has a right to bring his request to regardless of the uniqueness of that re citing one of the Central ideas of the Jesus youth movement of the late 1960s in the he we become awake to god As we become awake to each such Awakening is not the special pre serve of City dwellers As Long As roadrunners serve the suckers in the charismatic the movement involving and Al though it is identified historically with the pentecostal Branch of the chaplain Charles Baldwin said Char a malls Are an Active Force in the religious Lite of the american military Community in v he said hundreds turned out at the ode see hotel in Bavaria last Tor a even alter it was no longer Permis sible to use administrative leave for religious numbers were so great that they filled the hotel and Many camped speaking i gift by which an individual communicates with god in utterances  to another person is Only one sign of the one May be a charismatic without speaking in Baldwin he explained the Central premise of Divi Nely inspired gifts or All christians Are offered nine of gods gentle neatness and Tern but there Are additional gifts which do not appear to be for nil said Baldwin the include other tongues and  the most commonly observed Charis Matic trademark is the gift of baldwins id Many ministers question the Validity of an Oral lie Between Man and god if there is no interpretation of comm he pointed out that much of the Validity and in old Lelh Century Par Grafen Dir chaplain Joe a connects modern growth not Only to the pentecostal Church a particularly in the South but also to the Youthful Jesus movement of the late based chiefly in san but Baldwin rejects a commonly heard belief the charismatic movements constituency is largely Young and in the military lower Black or Young or the thrust of the charismatic movement is directed toward a More personalized Faith which strips of the Sodal trappings interfering with human Baldwin contradicted the notion widely held outside the movement that the Charis Matic phenomenon is but another chaplains View is heard in the Spring tame of the military Chap gains chaplain David Ham Brick wrote the greatest dangers loan army Chapel today is the charismatic move ment it has All the potential of spilling our Effort reducing our effectiveness and threatening out it a threat in the 11 is a greater threat Between Hambrick describes a negative Atmo sphere in which those within the move ment and those outside show Little patience and understanding toward each religious one minister suggested that at a time when bigness military threatens an individual s sense of the charismatic movements Strong emphasis on a person Al relation with god has a Sharp Appeal to a growing number of just listening getting the word u at important to a chaplain As spreading Lite Chap lain Pablo Teodoro talks with Ken Bonogofsky of d 3rd 59th Ada at Fra Aurrli 7tb Genera Sis photo by Jim Cole