When other people talk about “weekend exercise” they usually mean going for a Saturday morning jog. What I am referring to is participating in a weekend military exercise.
Reserve army units usually have a monthly weekend exercise. Most often, I can only go on a Saturday because of my Sunday morning responsibilities at the church.
This was not a unit exercise but a brigade exercise. Our brigade consisted of all the units in Nova Scotia and PEI. The exercise was about how we would respond to a local natural disaster.
This would be interesting enough, but my role was not just to support the other military members on the exercise but to act in the role I would if I was the chaplain assigned to support the work of the brigade. It was a great learning opportunity.
The other part of my Good News is that I was able to do this because Amanda took the service at Brookfield Baptist Church despite being on leave because of a concussion and Lyme disease. I could not have done this without her.
