{"id":443724,"date":"2025-05-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=443724"},"modified":"2025-05-12T08:27:29","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T08:27:29","slug":"camp-zama-prayer-breakfast-brings-community-together-for-food-faith-fellowship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=443724","title":{"rendered":"Camp Zama prayer breakfast brings community together for food, faith, fellowship"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n Col. Stephen Browne, right, director of Plans and Policy for U.S. Forces Japan, speaks to the nearly 200 guests in attendance at the National Prayer Breakfast held May 2 at the Camp Zama Community Club.
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CAMP ZAMA, Japan \u2013 When Col. Stephen Browne was part of the Great East Japan Earthquake recovery efforts in 2011, he knew prayers for everyone involved were pouring in from around the world.<\/p>\n

Knowing that so many people had him in their thoughts was able to carry him through the many arduous days, even when the work had pushed him past the point of exhaustion, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was so busy that I hardly had time to sleep \u2026 [and] there is no doubt that there were things that sustained me far beyond my physical capabilities,\u201d Browne said. \u201cThere is a lot of power in prayer, regardless of what religion or belief system you have.\u201d<\/p>\n

Browne relayed this story and other experiences to the nearly 200 guests in attendance at Camp Zama\u2019s National Prayer Breakfast held May 2 at the community club here.<\/p>\n

When the event started, attendees helped themselves to a buffet-style serving of various breakfast foods. Different command chaplains offered various prayers after the meal \u2014 for families, for peace, the armed forces and the nation \u2014 before Browne was introduced.<\/p>\n

Currently the director of Plans and Policy for U.S. Forces Japan, Browne was in 2011 serving as a liaison among U.S. forces, the Japan Self-Defense Forces, and the bilateral coordination action team known as Joint Task Force \u2013 Tohoku. The joint team helped with the coordination and planning of disaster recovery and reconstruction operations as part of what was dubbed \u201cOperation Tomodachi.\u201d<\/p>\n

The colonel praised the event as a great way to promote fellowship within the community and said he was impressed by the number of people in attendance.<\/p>\n

\u201cI like the fact that we can get together as a faith group [with] a shared set of common values \u2026 despite that we may follow different religions,\u201d Browne said. \u201cThat says a lot about who we are as people, as individuals.\u201d<\/p>\n

The event also included an address from Col. Marcus Hunter, commander of U.S. Army Garrison Japan, and a musical performance by a chorus made up of community members.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Col. Stephen Browne, right, director of Plans and Policy for U.S. Forces Japan, speaks to the nearly 200 guests in attendance at the National Prayer Breakfast held May 2 at the Camp Zama Community Club. (Photo Credit: Noriko Kudo) VIEW ORIGINAL CAMP ZAMA, Japan \u2013 When Col. Stephen Browne was part of the Great East […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443726,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-443724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=443724"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":443727,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443724\/revisions\/443727"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/443726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=443724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=443724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=443724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}