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Vision

We envision our veteran students returning to the work force as leaders, spiritual leaders who flourish in love and allegiance to Jesus Christ and shape their families, churches, and workplace environment for the glory and fame of God.

Intent

To train, shape, develop, and equip the mind, heart, and soul of our student veterans with godly wisdom and instruction. The Warriors CARE Center's desire is to offer Warrior Wisdom bible studies, Warrior Wisdom small groups, and Warrior Wisdom luncheons with expert guest speakers.

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Luncheon Dates

 

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12

Located in Founders
Doors open at 11:30 am // Lunch 12 pm - 1:30 pm

LTC Charlie Hall, U.S. Marine Corp Reserves Upstate Warrior Solution (UWS)

Topic: Warrior Wisdom and Finding Help

Charlie was born and raised in York, South Carolina. He is a graduate of the US Military Academy at West Point and served on active duty for 10 years in both the Army and Marine Corps. After a combat deployment to Iraq in 2005, Charlie moved to Greenville, South Carolina and began work in the private sector at Harper Corporation – General Contractors and the USMC Reserves.

Charlie then served on active duty as the District Injured Support Coordinator for the states of South Carolina and Georgia with the Marine Corps’ Wounded Warrior Regiment from 2009 – 2014, while volunteering with Upstate Warrior Solution in its formative years. In addition to being the President of Upstate Warrior Solution, Charlie continues to serve in the US Marine Corps Reserves. He and his wife Elizabeth live in Greenville, SC and have three children.

 

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5

Located in Founders
Doors open at 11:30 am // Lunch 12 pm - 1:30 pm

LTC (Chaplain) Pat Devine U.S. Army (Retired)

Topic: Making Worldview Practical: Four Critical Questions For Daily Discernment

Pat Devine is a retired Army Chaplain originally from Spokane, Washington. After graduating from the University of Idaho, he was commissioned as a fifield artillery offifficer and served fifive years on active duty before settling in Philadelphia.

Following seminary, Pat returned to active duty, serving an additional 16 years as a Chaplain. He served as unit chaplain at every level, from battalion to corps, as well as an action offifficer on the Army staffff and as an observer/controller-trainer at the National Training Center. Assignment locations include Germany, North Carolina, Alaska, Washington D.C., Kansas, Colorado, California, and Korea, with deployments to Bosnia in 1996, Iraq from 2008 to 2009, and twice to Afghanistan from 2011 to 2012, and 2018. Pat graduated from the Army Command and General Staffff College at Fort Leavenworth and completed the Army Jumpmaster School.

Currently, he is pursuing a doctoral degree in applied theology, focusing on biblical counseling, at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City. Pat and his wife, Tana, have been married for 32 years and have two adult children, Patrick and Julia (Whitman). The Devines reside in Boiling Springs, South Carolina, near their granddaughter, and are active members of Trinity Presbyterian Church in Spartanburg.

 

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16

Located in Founders
Doors open at 11:30 am // Lunch 12 pm - 1:30 pm

Chaplain, Colonel, George Youstra, U.S. Air Force (Retired)

Topic: Warrior Wisdom and the Ethical Leader.

Chaplain, Colonel, George Youstra, U.S. Air Force (Retired) served as the Command Chaplain, United States Special Operations Command (SOCOM). He was the principal and personal staff advisor to the CDRUSSOCOM, Directors, and headquarters staff in areas related to morale, ethics and spirituality. He was also liaised with the Joint Staff Chaplain, Service Chiefs of Chaplains, component functional offices, interagency partners, and allied partner nations. He directed the strategic global application and integration of religious diplomacy, policies, special emphasis, training, and resources in the interagency and joint environment for USSOCOM. Chaplain Youstra oversaw and provided religious support guidance to all USSOCOM religious support teams (RSTs). He edited the first ever Special Operations Forces Field Ethics Guide for utilization in the SOCOM formations and Suicide Prevention, Intervention, and Post-vention Workbook & Training Program. Prior to USSOCOM, Chaplain Youstra was the Joint Staff Chaplain and chaplain to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In this role he served as the only chaplain serving at the national strategic level advising the White House, Department of State, allies and interagency partners.

Chaplain Youstra was born in Greenville, South Carolina where he graduated from Bob Jones University in Greenville with a Bachelor of Science in Social Studies Education in 1982. Chaplain Youstra spent the first 14 years of his military career in the United States Army where he was a Special Forces, Infantry, Military Policy Officer and Chaplain. In 1998, Chaplain Youstra entered active duty as an Air Force Chaplain.