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This month's video, consisting of clips from two videos filmed at the First Baptist Church of Eunice in Eunice, Louisiana in November 2007, stars Navy chaplain Lt. Ben Howard, one of about eighty chaplains serving at Camp Pendleton, California.

In the first clip, which is from the church service, Chaplain Howard, making some remarks about military chaplains before getting into his sermon, explained that "most importantly" he's really a government paid missionary, stating that Southern Baptists "put the chaplaincy under the mission board -- the North American Mission Board -- and that's because we really do look at our job -- I look at my job -- as the opportunity to be an evangelist, as the opportunity to be a missionary within the military."

The remaining clips are from a question and answer session with Chaplain Howard later the same day.

Explaining an advantage of being a military chaplain over pastoring a church, Chaplain Howard stated, "I found that I had more opportunities to interact with unsaved people and to share my faith in the Marine Corps than I ever did at church," adding that some of these opportunities result from service members "being forced to" go to the chaplain.

In his response to a question from the audience regarding the requirements for a religion to be able to have military chaplains, Chaplain Howard explained the requirements, then added, "unfortunately, it looks like the Wiccans are going to get an Army chaplain" because they were able to meet those requirements. He then added that the First Amendment is both good and bad -- good because it "allows freedom of religion," but bad because "when courts start getting involved and stuff, they have to allow everybody."