American Military Evangelizing NationsAMEN Newsletters
News from Christians in uniform and the churches that welcome them.
Welcome, and thank you for stopping by. For fifty years, AMEN has worked to make sure no Christian in uniform has to look for a church family alone. These newsletters tell that story one season at a time.
In these pages you’ll find news from installations near and far, lessons from Scripture, and the quiet work of Keymen and congregations who open their doors to service members and their families. We hope they encourage you, and that they help you pray for the men and women who serve.
— Dennis and Diane Saucier
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AMEN News — Summer 2026
Christ the freedom giver: as America marks 250 years of liberty, Galatians 5 shows how the freedom Christ gives shapes the lives of those who serve.
2026
CTDVol. 4, Issue 4Qualified to teach: lessons from training new Infantry officers lead back to 2 Timothy 2:2 and the church's call to equip faithful teachers.
AMEN NewsSpring 2026America 250: as the nation marks 250 years since the Declaration of Independence, a look with Dr. Os Guinness at how liberty draws on the covenant at Mount Sinai.
CTDVol. 4, Issue 2Responding to Pew Research findings on religion in America, this issue looks at the Great Commission: baptizing, teaching deeper Bible study and readiness to defend the faith.
AMEN NewsWinter 2026Culture of connection: it began at an Air Force basic training barber shop in November 1973, and the story leads to how God's people build a culture of belonging.
CTDVol. 4, Issue 1Rightly dividing the word: a deer-hunting story opens a look at 2 Timothy 2:15 and the diligent Bible study that makes a worker approved to God.2025
AMEN NewsFall 2025Ministry of presence: from Mark 1 and 1 John 1, and lessons from an Air Force chaplain's career, why simply being there gives hope to people in uniform.
CTDVol. 3, Issue 3The writer's 58 days at Army Ranger School in 1987 frame a study of 2 Timothy: enduring hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ and the crown that awaits.
AMEN NewsSummer 2025What's troubling the troops? Using Army chaplain William McCoy's "death matrix" of fear, pain, loneliness and rejection, and the hope of Hebrews 2.
AMEN NewsSpring 2025On the 81st anniversary of D-Day, this issue recalls Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the ordinary men who landed at Normandy, and Paul's call to shine like stars.
CTDVol. 3, Issue 2A long unit run at Fort Benning, Georgia, past the Chattahoochee River, opens a lesson from Hebrews 12 on running the Christian race with endurance.
AMEN NewsWinter 2025Spiritual boot camp: from 2 Timothy 2:2, how churches can prepare young Christians entering basic training, the service academies and ROTC to keep their faith.2024
AMEN NewsFall 2024In everything give thanks: a season of Thanksgiving and Christmas, the hymn "Count Your Many Blessings," and why gratitude matters to service members far from home.
AMEN NewsSummer 2024The changing role of an AMEN Key Man or Key Woman, from the Cold War network Don and Harriet Yelton began in 1976 to giving military Christians a place to belong today.
AMEN NewsSpring 2024The moral warrior: drawing on General Sherman and J.R.R. Tolkien, why Christians in uniform serve to protect, not for the glory of war.
AMEN NewsWinter 2024Struggling with evil: after the October 7th attacks on Israel, a study of Ephesians 6 and putting on the full armor of God.2023
AMEN NewsFall 2023Who needs military ministry? The director shares what he hears visiting churches near installations, and why Key Men and Women matter more than a list of service times.
AMEN NewsSummer 2023Trivial Pursuit: from 1 Corinthians 1, how God often works through the lesser-known people of Scripture who made important connections behind the scenes.
CTDVol. 1, Issue 7"Come as you are" is a common church invitation. This issue looks at how Jesus welcomed sinners as they were, then called them to change, as with the woman in John 8.
AMEN NewsSpring 2023On the 79th anniversary of D-Day, this issue asks Jesus' question "Who is the greatest?" and looks at the humble, ordinary people who changed history.
AMEN NewsWinter 2023Order out of chaos: drawing on 1 Peter 1 and a podcast by Dr. Jordan Peterson on Genesis, a reflection on how trials refine faith and reveal what we can become.2022
CTDVol. 1, Issue 5Train the trainer: from Army master gunner school to 2 Timothy 2:2, how faithful men are prepared to teach others also.
AMEN NewsFall 2022A holiday reflection on gratitude, including the director's own story of coming to know Christ as a junior Airman through the AMEN ministry.
AMEN NewsSummer 2022Freedom in Scripture, from creation to the Ten Commandments at Mount Sinai, and how God's gift of freedom shapes the life of a Christian who serves.
AMEN NewsSpring 2022The ministry of hope: looking back to 1976, when Don and Harriet Yelton began the Locator Service, and how finding a church overseas has changed since the Cold War.
AMEN NewsWinter 2022Ministering in need: why service members and veterans can carry moral and spiritual injury, and how congregations can bring God's grace to them beyond Sunday worship.2021
AMEN NewsFall 2021On the 80th anniversary of Pearl Harbor, a look at Romans 12 and how being transformed by the renewing of our minds builds resilience and hope.
AMEN NewsSummer 2021Counting the cost: reflections on freedom in Christ as images come out of Afghanistan, with news of the Pike's Peak church serving Air Force cadets and Fort Carson soldiers.
AMEN NewsSpring 2021Before Memorial Day, a reflection on Romans 5 and how hope and faith carry us through hardship, remembering the service members who gave their lives for our liberties.
AMEN NewsWinter 2021Peacemakers: from the Sermon on the Mount, why the world needs people of conviction who seek peace, and how AMEN helps service members find reconciliation with God.2020
AMEN NewsFall 2020AMEN goals for 2021: after a year when COVID-19 halted travel and locator requests, plans to visit Keymen and churches and expand the contact network, plus a Thanksgiving reflection.
AMEN NewsSummer 2020Finding consistency in time of uncertainty: Clausewitz's fog of war meets the steady hope of the gospel, with team news and the Bear Valley Military Outreach program.
AMEN NewsSpring 2020A shelter in the time of storm: as the coronavirus pandemic tests our endurance, Peter's first letter shows how suffering brings unexpected reward, with a COVID-19 update and academy graduates.
AMEN NewsWinter 2020Dennis and Diane Saucier begin their fifth year as AMEN directors and mark AMEN's 44th year, reflecting on staying connected in a time of isolation through the Locator Service.2019
AMEN NewsFall 2019Connecting with our military: can the church do better? Lessons from Paul's care for Christian fellowship in 1 Corinthians and what congregations near bases can learn.
AMEN NewsSummer 2019Training to serve in a broken world: how the steady, repeated training every service member knows is a model for growing a strong and faithful Christian life.
AMEN NewsSpring 2019Marking the D-Day anniversary, this issue remembers the sacrifices of the World War II generation and Jesus' blessing on the peacemakers, and asks how faith helps rebuild futures.
AMEN NewsWinter 2019A reflection on faithfulness drawn from Exodus and the building of the Tabernacle, done "as the Lord commanded through Moses," and what it means for Christians in uniform.2018
AMEN NewsFall 2018Transition: change is the only constant in military life, and this issue traces it from uniforms to the European family retreats begun by an Army chaplain fifty-five years ago.
AMEN NewsSummer 2018Teamwork: from the first day of Basic Training to AMEN's founding vision in 1976, why churches and military members must work together and leave no Christian behind.
AMEN NewsSpring 2018On the ministry of hospitality: why spiritual strength matters for those in uniform, from the military's Total Force Fitness program to the welcome a congregation can offer.