CH Steve Satterfield led a www.strongbonds.org Couples' Conference at Edelweiss in Southern Germany.

CH Steve Satterfield led a www.strongsbonds.org Couples' Conference at Edelweiss in Southern Germany.

CH Steve Satterfield ministered at a Spiritual Fitness Lunch in Darmstadt, Germany on http://alpha.org.

CH Steve Satterfield (keys) and friends ministered at a Prayer Breakfast in Darmstadt, Germany.

CH Steve Satterfield (on keys) and friends ministered at a Spiritual Fitness Lunch in Darmstadt, Germany. Here is a 21 second video of outside the National Security Agency/Top Secret Dagger Complex where we were: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUtIw4rGVY8

CH Steve Satterfield (left) ministered with the Striker Chapel Band, Baghdad, Iraq.

CH Steve Satterfield (left) and friend at Abu Ghraib, Iraq, 2006 and in the chapel band (right, after the bad stuff.:)

CH Steve Satterfield led a singles' How To Avoid Marrying A Jerk (www.nojerks.com, in the media recently) conference in S. Germany at Hinterbrand Lodge for 35 people in April. He led a couples' (www.prepinc.com) conference in S. Germany this fall at Edelweiss.

CH Steve Satterfield in Luxembourg (above) and Worms, Germany (below, where Luther wrote his Diet - no, not about food! :).



CH Steve Satterfield at a cross near the Eagles' Nest (made famous in Band of Brothers) in Southern Germany.



Chaplain Steve Satterfield led a 7 Habits For Highly Effective Army Families conference at Hambachtal, Germany.



Chaplain Steve Satterfield (piano) with the Kelley Barracks Chapel Band in Darmstadt, Germany.

CH Steve Satterfield, pastor of the Kelley Chapel in Darmstadt, Germany


CH Steve Satterfield (left of center) and the Kelley Chapel Protestant service from our Alpha retreat in Rastatt, Germany. 

In my Nuclear Biological Chemical suit in my office in Darmstadt, Germany! :)  Chaplain Satterfield performed a wedding in Heidelberg, Germany.

CH Steve Satterfield ministering at a Prayer Lunch for the 52d Engineer Battalion, Fall 2004, Ft. Carson, CO 
CH Steve Satterfield (below) "watering" a camel in Kuwait.

CH Steve Satterfield (above right) at Ur, Iraq (see Genesis).100K may have lived there.
CH Steve Satterfield working for a living in Kuwait, 2003! :)
CH Steve Satterfield preached in Kuwait in his NBC suit.
CH Steve Satterfield played keys for the Contemporary band in Kuwait.
CH Steve Satterfield helped with a baptism in Kuwait.

CH Steve Satterfield (right) with a friend at the chapel in Arifjan, Kuwait, 2003.
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CH Steve Satterfield in Kuwait in OIF1 in 2003. Don't laugh too much at the old school uniform or the glasses! :)

My stuff is on the way to Germany, I've moved out of my house into a hotel room on post, and I'm almost done clearing. I'm looking forward to the Christmas Eve service at New Life Church. It's their first service in their new 8500 seat sanctuary. It's amazing what God has done through Ted Haggard the last 20 years, after he started in the basement of his home. He is the president of the National Assocation of Evangelicals (NAE), who endorse me to be an Army chaplain. I'm still ordained with the Association of Vineyard Churches (AVC). It's hard to compete with New Life, which is like a Vineyard Fri - Sun nites, which is when I've been going. I led a weekly lunch small group for them this year on post.

I'll go to the midnight Christmas Eve service at Wellshire Presbyterian (USA) in Denver, where I grew up, to see some friends. I'll have Christmas lunch with family, then head back to the Springs, since I preach on Sunday. I fly to Germany on the 2nd. I think I'll be able to stay there awhile, so I'll try to visit some religious landmarks. I may go to an NAE conference in Austria over the Martin Luther King holiday. My bosses are also open to me returning to Colombus, OH the 1st week in May for the AVC conference (which happens every 2 years).

I'll be the first chaplain the 2d Military Intelligence (an oxymoron, I know! :)) Battalion in Darmstadt will have, so it'll be a learning process for both of us. I'll probably live on post, and I'll be buying a newer vehicle there, since my 91 Explorer won't pass the rust inspection for shipping. Please pray God's will be done with all of this, as well as for those deployed in Iraq, Afghanistan, Kuwait, etc. My new contact info is below. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Summer 2004:
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I had Nate Rees' "Nameless" band play for our Organizational Day. I'm supposed to move to Germany for 3 years in January (probably with a deployment sometime). Pray God's Spirit moves amongst us!

Since I joined the 52nd Engineers the last couple of months, I co-led a Building Strong and Ready Families marriage retreat for 20 couples and their kids. I also did a Prayer Breakfast (where I co-led music) and 100 people showed up. I move to Germany in January, so please keep me in your prayers as I transition.

2017 update: I can be heard on www.kuhsdenver.com: https://www.mixcloud.com/widget/iframe/?feed=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mixcloud.com%2Fstephenraywatts%2Fconscious-conversations-1-1-17-show-44%2F&light=1 and

http://vineyardjusticenetwork.org/ambassadors-of-peace-in-wartime-a-conversation-with-rick-love-and-chaplain-wayne/

I've been back for more than 2 months now. I play keyboards at Christ's Vineyard here in Colorado Springs, CO while I wait to help with a service at Ft. Carson again. I just finished leading a Marriage Retreat for 12 couples and their kids. The Holy Spirit was present in a special way during communion and closing worship. People asked for prayer. I'm planning on doing some prayer lunches in the spring and fall. Pray God brings people to Christ this Easter season, through The Passion, etc.!

We're back at Ft. Carson, CO, USA - yay! I work out of Provider Chapel. If you want to see free pictures of my OEF OIF deployment, go to

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As we prepare to leave in about a month and a half, I was asked to reflect on everything that has happened. When SPC Whiteaker and I arrived in January, we reported to CH (LTC) Linnear and CH (MAJ) Kilgore. They started the services in the Zone 2 Dining Facility, then moved them to the chapel tent that was next door. I started playing the electronic keyboards for services. Before this, they were using an electronic hymn player. I remember one Sunday for the gospel service we had to be in our gas masks before the service started. You don't do that every day!

We worked out of the secure building at Arifjan. I was the garrison chaplain for a month. CH Kennedy and SGT Wingfield joined us from Ft. Carson, so they took over the garrison chaplain position. As the permanent chapel opened up, I remember praying with CH Kennedy in it, asking God to bless what we did. Soon the chapel was busy with services, as was the chapel tent, which moved to the other end of Zone 2. Soon the gospel service had to move to the theater, because it was so popular. Last month, SPC Whiteaker and I became the Unit Ministry Team with the most time on the ground at Arifjan. It's been interesting seeing all the changes. God has been great!

I co-led a baptism class with 3 other chaplains this week. 20 people were there, and a handful asked Christ into their life for the first time (praise God!) I baptized 4 people in the Persian Gulf, and 2 other chaplains baptized 4 each as well. It was cold, but well worth it. Pray for their followup, and more to come! Happy Thanksgiving!

Since my R&R in Germany fell through, I decided to go to DC at the last minute. I was pleasantly surprised that the Rijsmuseum has an extension in the Amsterdam airport. I stayed at the hotel at Walter Reed Medical Center, since I hope to be stationed there sometime. I met with 4 chaplains there (including one I know from Carson), which may help with working there down the road. My heart goes out to the patients I saw, especially the amputees. As you may know, 16 soldiers were killed when a missile tore a troop transport helicopter out of the sky, which included 4 from Carson. I asked the question, "Why them God, and not me?" We may never know the answer, but it encourages me to keep serving God and Country.

While I was there, I visited the US Capitol, the Washington Monument, the Lincoln Memorial, Arlington Cemetary, and various other places. I went on a tour of the American History Museum of the Smithsonian. I was touched seeing the flag that hung outside the Pentagon. A nice "coincidence" (could it be . . . God ?:)) happened at the Pentagon. I showed up hoping to get a tour, and who was there to greet me, but my former chaplain assistant, SPC David Robb! He was mobilized in the National Guard to Pentagon duty, so he gave me a VIP tour, which was great. I joined a Boy Scout tour as well. I will end this brief story with some quotes from Then - And Now - Pentagon Review by Nita Scoggan, a Research Analyst and Illustrator there.

"Medal of Honor nominee CPT Humbert R. Versace, Army Special Forces, Vietnam POW, was executed in a Vietcong prison. Fluent in Vietnamese, as he was led through villages after capture, a rope around his neck, he smiled and spoke to the people about God and America. Despite severe and untreated wounds, torture and starvation, "Rocky" defied his captors. Placed in irons and gagged at times to keep him from shouting words of encouragement to other POWs. In 1965, he was shot in the head to silence him. The last thing the other prisoners heard from him, he was singing "God Bless America" at the top of his voice in his isolation box. May God give us more such men (and women.)" p. 18

Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird said in 1970, "The (Pentagon Prayer) room offers a setting in which we can pray as we like. Its existence is a recognition of our dependence on God if we are to progress toward the peace which we seek for ourselves, and for all (hu)man kind. Peace is the business of this building . . . Thought we cling to the principle that church and state should be separate, we do not propose to separate (humans) from God. For without (God), Who is the source of our being, the source of our wisdom, and the source of our strength, we can do nothing." p. 29

Yesterday our staff went to a yard where 1000s of HMMWVs, trucks, trailers, tanks (one of the tanks said "Call Yo Chaplain" on the front), etc. are stored. We had our picture taken in front of them with us holding a sign "Army beat Air Force" regarding the football game at the Air Force Academy. Our boss hopes they'll show it on the screen at the game. One of us joked maybe the Air Force won't fly us home if they see it. :)We took a picture with "Happy Holidays" on it, too. We also went near several camels, who let us give them bottled water. I'll see my first rock concert here tonight (Collective Soul), and my first one in a while, which should be fun.