Welcome!
Jocelyn Green with her husband Rob
Welcome to the Faith Deployed Web site! This Web site was created as an extension of my first book, Faith Deployed: Daily Encouragement for Military Wives, which just won the Bronze Medal Award in the 2010 Military Writers Society of America contest in the spiritual/religious category. (My other book won the Gold Medal this year: Battlefields & Blessings: Stories of Faith and Courage from the War in Iraq & Afghanistan!)
I hope you’ll visit often for resources and spiritual encouragement for the unsung heroes at home. Check out the blog (or better yet, subscribe), the links to the right and the bookstore for ways to strengthen your faith in the One who never changes.
Blessings,
Jocelyn Green
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I have really enjoyed your book, “Faith Deployed’. As a veteran Coast Guard “underway” wife I have found it encouraging and refreshing. Thank you!
“Faith Deployed” is excellent! My wife Jamie and I have read it, I have mine noted, high-lighted, and noted some more. I want you to know also we use “Faith Deployed” as one of our standard, “go to” texts in our ministry, Cedar Valley Point Man and Home Front Ministry as we work with both veterans and their families. Thank God someone, specifically a wife with writing abilities, was sensitive to the Holy Spirit, to follow His leading and respond and obey.
Fortunately my deployments in the USAR and National Guard were during a great period of growth and noncombat war in the United States. I found your site from Twitter and was quickly reminded how many men and women have loved ones state side who need encouragement and support. God Bless everyone who reads this and if anyone ever needs a friend who has been there, please find me on twitter. God is with you all.
Sofia Hogan
USAR SSG (Ret)
Thank you for using your God given talents to write a book that encourages and uplifts all of us military wives!
I highly recommend that others read the book!
Im starting a devotional group with the wives of our guys that are gone. Its so hard to find things geared towards military THANK YOU
I am a Coast Guard Wife… THANK YOU for this site and the devotional. I hadn’t heard about it before tonight, I plan on buying it first thing tomorrow. THANK YOU
Our pastor at Lindley community church announced your good works today.thank you for the blessings.We have a son inlaw,major daniel jones at cetcom that will be leaving for afganistan next week until after thanksgiving. Our daughterDee has gone through this many times,being a carreer soldier’s wife.Again thank you for recognizing the untold hero’s’ the mother,the wife,the banker,and all the other titles that she carries. We will be looking for your book.thanks Hank
Wow! I was given a copy of your book this summer the the day my family was throwing a “deployment party” for my hubby. His orders which were “on hold” had been changed 5 times to 4 different countries (twice to one country:) but we figured what the heck he’s gotta be going somewhere. We had been married a little over a year and I was in tears, at the party I used my brave smile, & for weeks after.
I would like to thank the you and the awesome women who contributed to this book. It taught me that it is not my husbands confusing communication skills, but that military life is….. changeable. The best part is I now feel hope. Hope because if other people can do this than so can I.
Peace, holly
I am pretty new to all the military stuff. My husband joined several years ago at the age of 36. That is pretty old for joining the Army Reserve, however, he believes that that is his calling at this moment in time. I am a firm believer that you need to continue with where God leads you. This has not been an easy career change on me. He has been called to active duty with a transporation company. He has been gone on some training or anther since June and the kids and I have seen very little of him. Last week, we were able to spend his last 4 day leave, until he return for his 2 week R&R in the midst of his year long deployment. It is encouraging to have found a this site, where devotion, strength and encouragement is given on a daily basis. I never imagined it would be so difficult to let my husband go to a dangerous place to do a dangerous job. I am blessed to have a work enviorment that supports my faith and my husband’s mission fully. I have not read any of your books, but will be seeing which ones would be best to start with. I do know that my husband will be leaving within the next 3-4 days and then the uncertainty comes. I am a little scared of this part, when will we talk to him again, will we know when he is out doing a dangerous mission, and all the other unknowns. I will continue to seek peach through God, as he is the only one who can give that to me.
I just want to thank you again, for setting up this site for people like me to come to for encouragement and strength.
God bless you and all the soldiers and families. Thank you for all you do!!
Sincerely,
Arline
i am new to all this military stuff but i need some help. my husband and i just got married in july. his ship is on deployment right now. they ar having a new homeport change . well he moved me there so i would be there when he got there. well his father went with me so i wouldnt be alone and it would help him get offf his feet. well his father got to me really bad. just little stuff he did would annoy the mess out me. well one dday i just snapped on him. well that day my huband and i talkedabout me goin to my parents till he got to where i was. well the next day i told him i didt wanna go to parents house i wanted his dad to leave. well he didnt like that very well. and he said i was goin to my parents and his dad was not goin anywhere. so i said well then im not comin bck at all..(i never should have said) well now we are talking abou getting a divorce. im so confised i need some advice.. please. my husband leave on a deployment and a few days before he leaves were taking about getting divorced.. give me some advice ladies please…
Hi-new marriage is hard hun! Not sure how things went but I do know that you two need to stick by each other. HE needs to put you first and stand by you even if it means his parents dont agree or support everything because you are married now. Its hard because you need to respect him so you got to kinda put things to him nicely and sweetly but stand firm that you need your space from his parents
Let me know how your doing?
hello my name is angel im 21 yrs and my husband is in the navy a few yrs now, we are newly weds as of january 2010. And a few days after he had to leave for training a month at a time and comes back for a month..so we didnt get to enjoy eachother or a honey moon
.. Its stressful on us and im not the easiest person to deal with at times.. We have had a few big misunderstandings. But however i am looking foward to readin this book to find some words of wisdom and guidance as to how i should act to these little problems that might just be a factor in our relationship ending! I love him very much and want to be the supportive wife i know i can be sometimes it just takes a little help and guidance.. Godbless… Love mrs. Valdez
Thank you so much! You have really inspired me to be the best that I can be for everyone in my family!
Thank you, I am truly blessed by your writing.
I love the way you are educating and supporting the troops, their families and those who don’t quite know how difficult it really is. By using our faith it only strengthens and unites us all as one. God bless you, your loved ones and anyone reading my simple post. I am truly inspired by this website…thank you!
I am honored to visit here today, Jocelyn! I look forward to reading your books!
Hubby served in 3 wars and he is currently civilian but it was a very difficult, emotional and healing process, and just recently I can finally say it has been a rewarding journey. I also have a heart for mil spouses and building quality relationships … and a passion for writing! 
I look forward to getting to know you more .. blessings to you and your hubby, Jenn
Thank You
Is there a list of a spouse I can correspond with
Susan
Aloha,
My husband and I are newlyweds. We just got married a few weeks ago, May. 06, 2010. My husband is in the Navy and he just left for his 6 months deployment yesterday. I have been in tears since he left. This is my first deployment with him and I am finding it really hard to deal with. I miss my husband very much but while browsing on the net to look for a devotion or some sort of comfort, I saw a link that shared about your book. I went on Amazon and ordered it. I am hoping it’ll be here in 4 days because I need some sort of comfort. I am praying for all the men who are serving our country who are out there. May God also bless all the spouses who are awaiting their coming home. I look forward to reading your book. God bless and aloha from Hawaii.
I just got my two copies in the mail. Thank you for the note inside! One copy is for a friend. I look forward to reading it!
I love this book! My husband is currently serving in Afghanistan. Sometimes when I come home from work to a very quiet home and find myself getting sad, I’ll start a bath and read your book. It gives me SUCH peace to know how many other women have been in my shoes before me and with God’s strength, pulled through. Thank you for this!
Kristen, I’m so glad to hear that the book is a source of encouragement to you! You are right, many other women have felt (and are feeling!) exactly what you feel right now. With God, you can get through this.
Blessings, Jocelyn
I haven’t really learned a lot about the site, but what I have seen has been wonderful, so thank you and God bless! All the thoughts, prayers, stories, and blogs are so encouraging…but also scary. Mostly encouraging…in with the good, out with the bad, right? Ha!
Well, the reason I’m writing…my husband and I have been married about 10 months, he’s a Marine (shall I say WE are Marines, haha), and we just moved back to the states from Okinawa. He was supposed to deploy for the first time in Dec. He came to me tonight and said it will be in Sept. Before our 1st anniversary. Over Thanksgiving. Over Christmas. I know, I know…so many have done it before and I can do it. However, this said, (and yes, I have already said it amidst my pathetic tears), but I am still terrified. I do not have a job yet. Few friends (it’s been 3 weeks and family has been here 2 out of those 3 and they are sleeping upstairs as I type), and I am struggling with health issues of my own.
I guess my reason for writing is out of fear, and the sincere hope that someone can offer some advice and encouragment, and well….really anything! We are also looking for a dog to keep me company and we want to get him before he leaves.
Thank you all for reading this if you do and all this site does!
God bless,
Beth Ann
Hi, I am a Navy wife for 12+ years and my heart goes out to all of the newlyweds that are having issues! First off, know that it is not that we have problems w/ our spouse, it is that the enemy comes to steal, kill and destroy (John 10:10) and yes, we get hurt by words sometimes and say things we do not really mean BUT something I have learned over the years is, “it is harder to stay than it is to leave”….that means you have to be ready for anything being a military spouse, move your family/household goods across the country (or wolrd) by yourself, you have to be a single parent most of the time, adjust & adapt to any situation given to you and try to do it with a smile on your face and keep it together! I have always, always relied on the Lord to get me through tough times, deployment or just a rough homecoming trying to get everyone to “let” daddy back into our routine. I pray for military wives every day and please email me if you’d like to share specific requests (craftingqueen12@gmail.com). God bless us every one & keep us safe & sane in this journey we call life!
Thank you so much for blessing us with Fatih Deployed. My spouse is deployed with his Army National Guard brigade. Your book has been such a source of comfort and strength for me. God Bless!
Wanda
I ran across your facebook page yesterday and ordered the book last night. Both my husband and I are active duty navy. I have been around the world and back for 17 years, but the last three years have left me at home while I watch him leave and it is devastating. In our three years dating/married, we have been together less than one year and he just redeployed to help with the Pakistan flood. I never knew how hard life was on the other side of the fence and I hope to find encouragement and prospective from others who have always served on the homefront while their loved-ones deploy. God bless!
I’m glad to see the website up and running. I’m a huge fan of your Facebook feed. Although I discovered you after my husband came back from his first deployment, I’ve still received a lot of encouragement from reading your posts and the comments of the other wives. I’ve posted my prayer requests on there more than once, and it’s good to know that others are going through the same thing and that we are able to stand in solidarity together and pray for each other. Now that I’ve discovered this wonderful community I know that, during my husband’s next deployment, I will have somewhere to turn where there are women who are strong in the Lord that are going through the same things as me. That alone makes the thought of another deployment a little easier to bear. Thank you for all you do, and for the work that God is doing through you in the lives of all these women and myself.