Chaplain Jason

I thank God for our Law Enforcement Officers for wearing their many hats!

**The Badge Wears Many Hats**

When you call 911, you're not just calling "the police." You're calling someone trained to be a crisis counselor, a mediator, a first responder, an investigator, and sometimes a social worker, all in the same shift.

A deputy might start the night at a community event, respond to a domestic disturbance, sit with a family during a death notification, then talk someone through a mental health crisis at 3 AM. Each of those calls requires a different skill set. All of them require the same person to show up calm, capable, and ready.

This isn't a complaint, it's context. Our communities have leaned on the Sheriff's Office and other law enforcement partners to fill gaps that other systems haven't kept pace with: mental health response, addiction, homelessness, youth issues. Deputies answer that call because that's the job. But it also means we have to be honest about what it takes to do this work well: proper training, adequate staffing, and real support for the people wearing the badge: internally, through training and resources, and externally, through community partnership.

As your Sheriff, my commitment is to make sure our deputies have what they need to handle this responsibility in our rapidly growing county, to enhance their abilities to provide highly trained law enforcement services, and to work with our community so law enforcement isn't standing alone at the intersection of every problem we haven't solved together.

This is the reality of 21st century policing. Our deputies answer the call day in and day out. Training, funding, resources, and professional development are imperative to set them up for success at serving you.

Thank you to Pastor Mark Robinette, Union Baptist Church for coming by for Wednesday pray day! Pastor Robinette also brought gifts for the Dads!

Have a safe and Happy Father’s Day !!

SUNDAY CHAPLAIN’S CHAT
6/21/2926
“Desires Of Your Heart”

Psalm 37:4
“Delight yourself in the Lord, and He will give you the desires of your heart.”

This past week my wife and I celebrated our 27th year of marriage. Not only did it represent another year of marriage of being together, it represented a time before my wife that God had delivered me from.
See, like when God looked down and seen Adam and said it wasn’t good for man to be alone, He gave Eve to Adam as a helper. I’m pretty sure He said the same about me when He sent Tamara to me.

I prayed for a good woman to stand by my side for years, but He didn’t answer those prayers until I delighted in Him. Before I was so focused on myself and what I wanted, and God knew that I wouldn’t be happy with the blessings He had for me until I was ready to trust in Him and His Way!

You know…I think this is where many of us are in emergency services. So many of our brothers/sisters are chasing themselves. They jump from here to there trying to find happiness and contentment, but no department, agency, schedule, etc will ever bring that peace until we delight ourselves in our service…aka God’s calling for us.

So this week, as I pray for our protection, I am also praying that we delight ourselves in God’s ways and not our own. I’m praying that as our hearts align with His, we will find the joy and contentment that we all are seeking!

Serving You For Him,
Chaplain Jason

This morning, I was able to stop by to pay my respects for the Charleston 9 and pray for firefighters everywhere!