Crosswinds Foundation for Faith and Culture

Monthly Shades Mountain veterans meeting this morning. Over 20 attending representing every branch and war/conflict area from WWII to present day. Here are some pics of those, sticking around to talk after the breakfast program, and build community. What an honor to be with these men and women.

What a great honor it is to work with Danny Mclain and the Veterans at Shades Mountain Baptist to help develop their connections with and support of veterans. We had a tremendous program today with the Chancellor of Troy University, and Vietnam veteran, Dr. Jack Hawkins. We are so grateful to Dr. Hawkins and all our veterans and family who attended.

Crosswinds has been assisting Vestavia Hills Methodist Church establish a ministry to the veteran community. They held their first event today and it was a great success with over seventy folks in attendance. We congratulate their team for a job well done.

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If you are a veteran in the Birmingham area, you are invited to attend the kick off event of the Shades Mountain Warriors on Mission, Saturday, Nov. 8, at 8:00 AM.

The meeting will be held at Shades Mountain Baptist Church as part of a new veteran ministry some vets at the church are starting.

There will be donuts and coffee and our buddy JT Cooper will be sharing his story about being on the ground in Somalia during “Black Hawk Down”. This is a free event and you can get all the details and register at:

https://www.shades.org/events/adults-plus-veterans-fellowship-gathering

Act fast as registration closes tomorrow - Wednesday - at 5:00 PM. However, if you miss the cut off, let me know and I'll see if I can get you in. Please share this with other veterans. I hope to see you there.

Shades Leveraging who we are and what we’ve been given for the sake of the gospel, wherever we are and wherever God takes us.

Here's how we roll when we are filming. All of this is the camera equipment lighting, sound, etc. we use for filming - except the pillow, of course. Once we get this in the car we can see if there's room left for our luggage. 😃

Day 3 in St. Louis. Today we filmed again at Standin' for Heroes Museum. What a great day interviewing warriors, including two WW2 veterans and ending with the Vietnam Helicopter Pilots Banquet. Here are some of the faces that have fought for freedom during the last eighty five years. We are indebted to them and those who fought beside them.

Day 2 in St. Louis started early with the Gold Star Families breakfast, followed by an interview with Kevin Wallace, one of the founders of Van of Valor (terrific organization with a mission that needs your support), a panel discussion with five men (four of them helicopter pilots) who served together in Vietnam, and another helicopter pilot who had a job we had never run across in our interviewing veterans.

Day 1 in St. Louis. Great interviews and a visit to Carl Huels ' Standing Proud Museum.

About to start day 1 of filming in this city.