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This section explains how the author built deep community by starting small groups for military couples at every assignment. After a marriage conference, she and her husband began hosting simple, low-pressure studies in their home—sometimes including single Airmen who wanted to learn about healthy relationships. These groups became their “family away from home,” supporting each other through deployments, moves, and even adoption. Hosting small groups strengthened their own marriage too, reminding them to stay united, serve each other, and avoid isolation. She also recommends Cru Military’s military-specific small-group guides.

This section highlights how the author learned to practice real, imperfect hospitality to build community as a military wife. Instead of stressing over a spotless house or fancy hosting, she shifted her mindset hospitality became about connection, not perfection. She opened her home despite toys on the floor, stacks of mail, or simple food, realizing that what mattered most was a welcoming heart and creating space for women to do life together.

This post explains how the author built deep community as a military wife by starting small groups and Bible studies for women, especially when PWOC/WOC wasn’t available at certain bases. She coordinated with chaplains, gathered even one interested spouse, and grew groups organically—often forming her closest friendships. She also shares how military-specific spiritual support is essential, why she wrote a Bible study for military wives, and how PWOC remains a powerful space for connection, faith, and shared experience.

This post gives 10 real, proven strategies to help military kids cope while Dad is deployed. It covers visual countdown tools (chains, jars), maps to show where Dad is, care-package involvement, intentional connection moments like book reading and video calls, comforting keepsakes, helpful books and podcasts, counseling options, meeting other deployment families, creating routines, giving yourself grace, and praying with your kids. The focus: helping kids feel connected, supported, and emotionally safe until Dad comes home.

This section teaches military wives how to pray intentionally over five major areas of their husband’s life his health, work, finances, protection from combat trauma, and the strength of their marriage. It explains how prayer invites God’s power into every part of his life and equips a wife to spiritually stand in the gap for her military man. Each prayer focus helps cover him physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually as he serves.

This section breaks down five powerful prayer areas military wives can focus on to support their husbands: communication, protection, reintegration after deployment, temptations, and priorities. It encourages wives to pray intentionally asking God to strengthen their marriage, guard their husband spiritually and physically, help them reconnect after deployment, resist temptations during long separations, and keep God + family at the center of their man’s priorities.

This post explains why military marriages face higher divorce rates constant PCS moves, career disruption, repeated deployments, reintegration stress, combat trauma, demanding work schedules, pressure to marry fast, and even domestic violence risks. It also encourages hope, offering reassurance that long-lasting military marriages are possible and linking to a full resource with 10 practical tips to help couples thrive.

This post explains the powerful cultural meaning behind Jesus being “wrapped in swaddling cloths and lying in a manger.” The Bethlehem shepherds were likely Levitical shepherds who raised perfect Passover lambs in special birthing caves. They swaddled newborn lambs to keep them blemish-free so when angels announced the Messiah, they instantly knew where to go. The swaddling cloths were made from old priestly garments, tying Jesus’ birth to His identity as both our sacrificial Lamb and our great High Priest. The message ends with encouragement for military spouses celebrating Christmas during separation, reminding them of Jesus’ purpose, presence, and sacrifice.

This post tackles five common lies military spouses believe and replaces them with truth. It explains how you don’t have to be strong all the time, you aren’t defined by how involved you are in the unit, and you absolutely serve your country too. It challenges the fear that “XYZ assignment or deployment will be awful,” reminding spouses that God often turns the hardest seasons into the sweetest. And finally, it reinforces that your dreams still matter, even if the journey looks different or takes longer.