Speaker(s):

CH (LTC) Rod Mills, USA (Ret.)

Dr. Rod Mills (LTC-Ret) is the senior leader of AeroNova, a multi-national mission that develops spiritual leaders in the nations. He is a professor at Regent University, serves as a guest lecturer internationally, and is a Senior Fellow at the Center For Transformational Living. He served in the US Air Force with over 1,000 flight hours on the EC-130H and retired from the US Army as a Chaplain with several combat tours, spending more than four years deployed or away from His family. He has multiple assignments in airborne, air assault, and infantry units and as a US Army doctoral fellow and clinical resident at the US Army Institute For Surgical Research.  He has served as a battalion, brigade, and airborne command chaplain with significant time with hundreds of wounded and dying Soldiers in intense combat.  He also served on the White House New Initiatives Forum chaired by the First Lady, on the role of faith and community organizations in the Joining Forces Military Families Initiative.  He served as the Chair of the Worldview, Culture, & Policy Exchange Forum in the Middle East and led many religious leader engagement teams.

Rod is an FAA Certificated Flight Instructor, holds a doctorate and several graduate degrees. He and his wife Beth have been married almost 34 years, have five children and fifteen grandchildren.  They have a strong passion for helping families grow into robust and powerful relationships with God and each other; and helping parents achieve generational transfer of fervent faith and love in the lives of their children.

Topic:

“The Lifestyle of Renewal & Refreshing”

This series explores how to live life in sustained renewal and refreshing, as families and as individuals, in the context of the harsh demands of military life. Rod shares life lessons from scripture and experience as a family separated more than four years by military demands & deployments, along with many years of long-hour work weeks, while raising five children.

Guest Ambassadors:

LTC Jim and Christina Harbridge, USA (Ret.)

*If you are graduating from Fort Leavenworth CGSC in 2022, Summer Celebration Week 3 is ideal for you!