“When I saw that this year’s Joshua Project was going to support Marines on Okinawa, I felt really moved to donate. I joined the Marine Corps in ’73 and spent two years guarding a naval weapons station on Oahu, Hawaii. My roommate got saved in ’76, and after six months of being discipled, he led me to the Lord. When I returned to Camp Pendleton, I got connected with a ministry there, and God got me moving in the right direction.
Fast forward 30 years. . . I was serving as a deacon in a church in Arizona when we hired a guy named RJ Prestwich as our youth pastor. RJ’s influence was important in our church’s health and growth during a season of upheaval and change. After things at the church had stabilized, RJ went on staff with Cadence International, where he now ministers near Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington.
I thank God regularly for the U.S. Marine Corps and His grace in placing me in just the right spot at just the right time for the Holy Spirit to do His work in me. When I think of RJ and his wife Sabrina, I pray for their soldiers and airmen to have the same experience I did and become anchored to the truth of Christ and His Word. I am forever grateful for how God saved and grounded me as a young man and long for that to happen at all Cadence houses and locations!”
–Mike Morris, Marine veteran, 1973-1977