Armed Forces Ministry Book

A comprehensive pastoral and liturgical resource for military chaplains, service members, and their families.

Armed Forces Ministry Book offers worship, devotional, and pastoral care resources for service members, military families, and chaplains navigating the realities of military life.

Rooted in Holy Scripture and shaped by the Lutheran tradition, this comprehensive resource provides worship resources, devotional materials, and practical guidance for those facing deployment, disaster response, moral injury, trauma, grief, illness, loss, and other challenges of military service. Designed for military, institutional, and crisis settings, it offers support for both everyday life and extraordinary circumstances.

Features include:

• Prayers for deployment, crises, military observances, leadership transitions, and daily military life
• Rites for Baptism, Confession and Absolution, Holy Communion, marriage, funerals, and care of the dying
• Resources for addressing trauma, moral injury, grief, addiction, recovery, and family concerns
• Services, Scripture readings, Psalms, hymns, collects, and daily prayer offices
• Foundations for Christian life and worship, including Luther’s Small Catechism, the creeds, and blessings for homes, workplaces, and other settings of military life

Whether serving in barracks, hospitals, deployment zones, family homes, or places of mourning, readers will find faithful resources for worship, prayer, pastoral care, and spiritual support. From everyday routines to moments of crisis and loss, Armed Forces Ministry Book helps service members, families, and chaplains draw on the comfort of Christ’s promises wherever duty calls.