Oct13
Spouses' Night: fall chili supper
6:30 PM · Fellowship hall
Chili, cornbread, pumpkin carving for the kids.
Home Front Chaplaincy · Fort Bragg families since 2011
Where is your soldier tonight?
Deployed or in the fieldGet through the months apartTuesday supper with childcare, a meal train for your first two weeks, and the Honey-Do Crew for the broken dryer.
Coming home soonMake the homecoming landThe first 72 hours, the first month, and a couples' weekend at Topsail when you're ready.
Want to helpAdopt a family for one deploymentMow a lawn, cover a school pickup, send a care box. Nine months, one family, a lead who checks in.Who we are
We've packed the PCS boxes too
Home Front was started in 2011 by two retired Army chaplains and their wives, who noticed that the hardest nights of a deployment rarely happen on post. They happen at a kitchen table off Raeford Road, after the kids are finally asleep and the phone hasn't rung in nine days.
We are a small, independent ministry. Three part-time chaplains, a spouse coordinator, and about ninety volunteers from churches across Cumberland County. We are not part of the chain of command, we don't keep records that go anywhere, and we will never call a soldier's unit.
Tuesday, 7:10 PM
Second helpings of Charlene's chicken spaghetti, and the playroom is loud.
Every Tuesday · 6:30 PM
Spouses' Night
Supper is on the table at 6:30 in the fellowship hall at Morganton Road. Kids go down the hall to the playroom with background-checked sitters, and you get two hours with people who know exactly what a 'blackout' week feels like.
Some weeks a chaplain says a few words. Most weeks it's just supper, coffee and someone who'll sit with you.
- Free supper and childcare, newborns to age 12
- New spouses paired with someone two deployments in
- Out by 8:30, in time for bedtime
- Guard and Reserve spouses welcome
Since 2011
Fifteen years on the home front
Counted from our sign-in books and the chaplain line log. We round down.
11,4601
Calls answered on the chaplain line
742
Families adopted through a full deployment
38,900
Tuesday suppers served
5162
Couples through a homecoming retreat
- 1About a third come in between 10 PM and 2 AM.
- 2Topsail Island, four weekends a year.
Figures through 30 September 2026.
From the families
What people tell us afterwards
My husband left eleven days after our son was born. The meal train meant I didn't cook once for two weeks. I cried at every single casserole.
I didn't want to talk to anybody on post. Chaplain Teague met me at a Waffle House at midnight and never once took notes.
The Honey-Do Crew fixed our water heater on a Saturday morning and wouldn't take a cent. My kids still call them the tool men.
Coming up
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Oct24
Honey-Do Saturday
8:00 AM · Meet at the shed
Gutters, leaf blowing and a porch rail on Hay Street.
Nov6
Homecoming couples' retreat
Fri 5 PM – Sun 1 PM · Topsail Island
Six couples, two chaplains, the beach in November.
Nov19
Duffel Bag Club Thanksgiving
4:30 PM · Kids' room
Kids make a video card for a parent who's away.
Nothing in that category this month.
It's 2 AM and you need someone. That's what the line is for.
Call (555) 014-3300. A chaplain answers, day or night, and nothing you say goes back to the unit.