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US Marines officer relieved of duties after video seeking ‘accountability’ over Afghanistan

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“To the American leadership. Very Respectfully,” the Marine battalion commander captioned the video. On Thursday — several hours after the attack in Kabul that killed at least 170 people and 13 U.S. service members — Marine Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller sat in full uniform before his military vest and helmet and recorded himself in a rebuke of U.S. senior leaders in Afghanistan. He posted the 4:45 minute video to Facebook.

“I want to say this very strongly,” he said in the video. “I have been fighting for 17 years. I am willing to throw it all away to say to my senior leaders: I demand accountability.”

“The reason people are so upset on social media right now is not because the Marine on the battlefield let someone down,” he said. “People are upset because their senior leaders let them down and none of them are raising their hands and accepting accountability or saying, ‘We messed this up.’

He noted that he had “a lot to lose,” especially if the video “picks up traction.” By Friday evening, the video had been shared 28,000 times.

As a member of the Marines for 17 years, he had not hit the 20-year mark to qualify for a full pension.

He later posted that fellow Marines asked him immediately to take down the post. “We all agree with you, Stu, but nothing will change, and it will come at a huge personal cost to you,” Scheller said they told him.

But he said in the video that he had thought through the consequences. “What you believe in can only be defined by what you’re willing to risk,” he said, adding that he was risking his battalion commander position, family stability and retirement. “I think that gives me some moral high ground to demand the same honesty, accountability and integrity from my senior leaders.”

About 18 hours after he uploaded the video, he posted that he had been relieved of duty.

Marine Corps spokesman Maj. Jim Stenger confirmed that Scheller was “relieved of command by Col. David Emmel, Commanding Officer of School of Infantry-East due to a loss of trust and confidence in his ability to command.”

“This is obviously an emotional time for a lot of Marines, and we encourage anyone struggling right now to seek counseling or talk to a fellow Marine,” Stenger wrote. “There is a forum in which Marine leaders can address their disagreements with the chain of command, but it’s not social media.”

“I’m not saying we’ve got to be in Afghanistan forever,” Scheller said in the video. “But I am saying: Did any of you throw your rank on the table and say, ‘Hey, it’s a bad idea to evacuate Bagram Airfield, a strategic air base, before we evacuate everyone?’”

He said in the video that he has commander friends who are saying similar things and are wondering whether lives were lost in vain over the past 20 years.

“What I’ll say is, from my position, potentially all those people died in vain. We don’t have senior leaders who own up and raise their hands and say, ‘We did not do this well in the end.’ Without that, we keep repeating the same mistakes,” he said.

His video received support, with Facebook comments including: “Absolutely honored and proud of you for saying what needed to be said. The cost of incompetence is permanent for those young men.” Another said: “You threw it on the line and if big government takes it away. Many service members / veterans are willing to give. We have your back financially and any other way.”

After announcing that he was relieved of command, Scheller wrote in a post, “My chain of command is doing exactly what I would do … if I were in their shoes.”

“America has many issues … but it’s my home. … When my Marine Corps career comes to an end, I look forward to a new beginning,” he wrote. “My life’s purpose is to make America the most lethal and effective foreign diplomacy instrument. While my days of hand-to-hand violence may be ending … I see new light on the horizon.”

In a post five hours after he was relieved of command, Scheller said that after having had time to process the situation, and having had many Marines agree with him, he offered this: “If you all agree … then step up. They only have the power because we allow it. What if we all demanded accountability?”

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Nearly 400 People Choose Christ at Mississippi State Fair

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Thousands of people flock to the Mississippi State Fair each year to eat fun food, hear live music, and enjoy time with loved ones. This year, fairgoers also got the opportunity to hear the Gospel preached, and nearly 400 people gave their lives to the Lord as a result.

Churches like First Baptist Church in Senotobia make Mississippi Baptist fair evangelism effort possible.

“One of FBC’s members, who is named Mae, began praying that she would be able to tell someone about Jesus,” First Baptist Senotobia Pastor David Haynes told the Baptist Press. “Mae was able to talk and pray with a young man as he placed faith in Jesus. During our four-hour session at the state fair, we had 160 Gospel conversations and 15 of those resulted in salvation.”

Mae was one of 195 volunteers with the Mississippi Baptist Convention Board (MBCB) who attended the multi-day state fair earlier this month.

Last year, the MBCB had 2,524 recorded gospel conversations, and 269 people made a profession of faith in Jesus at the Mississippi Fairgrounds.

This year at the 165th Mississippi State Fair, volunteers had 2,824 Gospel conversations, resulting in 373 decisions for Christ, BP reports. But not all conversions were immediate.

“We had a young lady come in the tent with her family,” Don Lum, MBCB director of evangelism, told BP. “There were three teenagers and a mom and dad. This young lady was holding back. She was kind of not really engaged. I was talking to the guy that had shared with them, and he came back in the tent the next day and said, ‘Look, you’ll never guess what happened last night. At 1 a.m. this morning, the young lady got up, went into her mom and dad’s bedroom and said, ‘I need Jesus.'”

MBCB spokesperson Linda Burris recently shared that the experience also has an impact on the volunteers who gain confidence in sharing their faith.

“They discover that they can do it and it’s not that hard,” she told the Christian Post. “It is rewarding to hear the stories of other believers at the fair and to share with someone hungry to hear the good news of hope.”

Haynes shares how the experience often encourages the volunteers to grow in confidence in their faith.

“Once a person gains confidence in their ability to rely upon the Holy Spirit to guide them in Gospel conversations, then he or she will be more confident when talking with friends and family members about Jesus,” he said.

Burris says although people have made the decision to follow Christ in the tent at the fair, the work of ministry is far from over.

“Our volunteers are assigned a number that they put on the cards of those they share with. A copy of the cards of the ones who received Christ are mailed back to the volunteer who shared with them. They are then able to make contact with them,” she explained. “We sort the cards according to city and town and mail the information to a local pastor so that they can be contacted by a church in their area.”

Lum says the effort is bearing much fruit and that even for those who reject the Gospel a seed is planted.

“You’ve sowed the seed,” said Lum. “You told him about Jesus Christ, and then you’ve given him the opportunity to make the decision. And the decision’s always a personal one. We all get to make the choice to follow Him or not. And so I can’t feel bad about that because we did our part. I tell folks when they come to work, I said, you can’t miss. You can’t lose.”
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വൈ എം ഇ എഫ് ഡാളസ് ഒരുക്കുന്ന ഗാനസന്ധ്യ നവംബർ മൂന്നിന്

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കാരോൾട്ടൻ (ഡാളസ്): വൈ എം ഇ എഫ് ഒരുക്കുന്ന ഗാനസന്ധ്യ നവംബർ മൂന്നാം തീയതി ഞായറാഴ്ച ആറുമണിക്ക് കാരോൾട്ടൻ ബിലീവേഴ്സ് ബൈബിൾ ചാപ്പൽ വെച്ച് നടത്തപ്പെടുന്നു

ഭക്ത കവി റ്റി കെ ശാമുവൽ ഗാനങ്ങളും ഗാന പശ്ചാത്തലവും വിവരണം ആയുള്ള ഒരു അതുല്യ സംഗീത അനുഭവം ഗാനാസ്വാദകരിലേക്കു പകർന്നു നൽകുന്നത് ശ്രുതിലയ ഗാഭീര്യവുമായി കേരളത്തിൽ നിന്നും എത്തിച്ചേർന്നിരിക്കുന്ന പ്രിയഗായകൻ സ്വരാജാണ് . ബിജു ചെറിയാൻ ലാലു ജോയ് തോമസ് യുകെ എന്നിവരുടെ നേതൃത്വത്തിലാണ് പശ്ചാത്തലസംഗീതം ഒരുക്കപ്പെടുന്നത്. പ്രവേശം സൗജന്യമായ ഗാനസന്ധ്യയിലേക്ക് ഏ വരെയും സ്വാഗതം ചെയ്യുന്നതായി വൈ എം ഇ എഫ് ഭാരവാഹികൾ അറിയിച്ചു
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വാറ്റ്ഫോർഡ്‌ വേഡ് ഓഫ് ഹോപ് ബെഥേസ്ഥ പെന്തക്കോസ്തൽ ഫെലോഷിപ്പിന്റെ ആഭിമുഖ്യത്തിൽ ആനുവൽ കൺവൻഷൻ.

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വാറ്റ്ഫോർഡ്‌ : ഈ വർഷത്തെ ആനുവൽ കൺവൻഷൻ വെള്ളിയാഴ്ച നവംബർ 1 വൈകിട്ട്‌ 6.30 മണി മുതൽ 9 മണി വരെയും, ശനിയാഴ്ച നവംബർ 2 വൈകിട്ട്‌ 6:30 മണി മുതൽ 9 മണി വരെയും വാറ്റ്ഫോർഡിൽ ഹോളിവെൽ പ്രൈമറി സ്ക്കൂളിൽ ഐ പി സി യു കെ & അയർലണ്ട് റീജിയൻ പ്രസിഡന്റ്‌ പാസ്റ്റർ ജേക്കബ്‌ ജോർജ്ജ്‌ ഈ യോഗം പ്രാർത്ഥിച്ച്‌ ഉൽഘാടനം ചെയ്യും.
അനേക രാജ്യങ്ങളിൽ ശക്തമായി സുവിശേഷം പ്രസംഗിക്കുന്ന കോഴിക്കോട്ടുള്ള കിങ്ങ്സ്‌ റിവൈവൽ ചർച്ചിന്റെ സീനിയർ പാസ്റ്റർ നോബിൾ പി തോമസ്‌ ദൈവ വചനത്തിൽ നിന്നും ശ്രിശ്രൂഷിക്കുകയും പ്രതേക വിഷയങ്ങൾക്കായി പ്രാർത്ഥിക്കുകയും ചെയ്യും. വെള്ളിയാഴ്ച വർഷിപ്പിനു വാറ്റ്ഫോർഡ്‌ ചർച്ചിനോടു ഒപ്പം നാട്ടിൽ നിന്നും വന്നിരിക്കുന്ന ബ്രദർ. സാംസൺ ചെങ്ങന്നുർ നേത്യത്വം നൽകും.
ശനിയാഴ്ച്ച ഉച്ചക്ക്‌ 3 മണി മുതൽ 5.30 മണി വരെ യൂത്തിനുള്ള സെക്ഷനിൽ പാസ്റ്റർ ഏബൻ മാത്യു (യു കെ) വചനം പ്രസംഗിക്കുകയും ചോദ്യങ്ങൾക്കുള്ള ഉത്തരങ്ങൾ നൽകുന്നു.
ഞായറാഴ്ച ഡബ്ലയു ബി പി എഫ് സഭകളുടെ ഒരുമിച്ചുള്ള ആരാധനയും കർത്ത്യ മേശയും രാവിലെ 10 മണിക്ക് മുതൽ 1 മണി വരെ നടക്കും.
പാർക്കിംഗ്‌ & റിഫ്രഷ്മന്റ്‌ ഉണ്ടായിരിക്കും.
സ്ഥലം- HOLLYWELL PRIMARY SCHOOL, TOLPITS LANE, WD18 6LL, WATORD, HERTFORDSHIRE.
കുടുതൽ വിവരങ്ങൾക്ക് : പാസ്റ്റർ ജോൺസൺ ജോർജ് (07852304150) & പാസ്റ്റർ സാം ജോൺ (07435372899) www.wbpfwatford.co.uk
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