Reverand Leslie Haines Chaplain Leslie Haines (Major) Retired will be leading worship at First English next week. We hope that you will be here next Sunday to welcome her and Dooly, her therapy dog.
The Rev. Leslie Haines serves as executive director for Lutheran Military Veterans and Families Ministries, Inc. (LMVFM). She received an A.A. in Music, a B.A. in Criminal Justice, and an M.A. in Theology. She also completed “Clinical Pastoral Education” through a hospital chaplaincy training program, and she completed a residency training program for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) at the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences.
In 1983, Chaplain Haines enlisted in the U.S. Army and served as a Huey helicopter crew chief until 1988, when she graduated Officer Candidate School (OCS). Since 2001, Chaplain Haines served in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba in Detainee Operations, as well as Kirkuk, Iraq, until she was injured and medevac’d to the U.S. for surgeries and treatment. In 2015, she retired as a major, serving in military police.
Chaplain Haines developed and planted LMVFM during her third year of seminary in 2007. She served her year-long deaconess internship by establishing the ministry in Fort Wayne. Upon graduation in 2009 from Concordia Theological Seminary (Fort Wayne), she accepted the call to serve as LMVFM’s executive director. In addition to her duties as the ministry’s chaplain and executive director, Leslie serves as the lead counselor for LMVFM, programs director and lead trainer for LMVFM’s training programs.
We look forward to the message Chaplain Haines has for next week.
To learn more about the Lutheran Military Veterans and Families Ministries and the work they do, please visit lmvfm.org
Chaplain Leslie Haines (Major) Retired will be leading worship at First English next week. We hope that you will be here next Sunday to welcome her and Dooly, her therapy dog.