Police chaplains are stepping up to support our law enforcement heroes, offering crucial spiritual and emotional care as they face unprecedented challenges and rising suicide rates.
As one of about 1,300 chaplains nationwide, Dr. Saundra Cherry with the Newport News Police Department explains why faith is desperately needed on the frontlines.
“Because there is warfare, there is a lot of warfare and you have to be spiritually sensitive to the Holy Spirit to see it,” said Dr. Cherry. “And to be able to go into warfare when you see it, not necessarily to speak about it, but to be that presence that you see it and that you can begin to pray.”
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Dr. Cherry has served as an on-call volunteer chaplain 24/7, 365 days a year since 2009. Rather than evangelize, though, Dr. Cherry says chaplains primarily walk alongside officers during their most difficult days, providing critical spiritual care, emotional support, and crisis intervention.
“And so, we as chaplains have that opportunity to talk to the recruits, even as they’re starting their journey, to tell them, ‘You are not a
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