Keesler’s Stephen Ministry commissions lay leaders Published June 17, 2008 By Susan Griggs Keesler News KEESLER AIR FORCE BASE, MISS. -- June 8, the chapel community commissioned new leaders for its Stephen Ministry program. Sharon Walker, Sidney Bibby, David Moore, Valerie Housen, Jeanie Harmon and Trenice Vinson attended a 50-hour extensive training program to become Stephen Ministers. Keesler program coordinators are Glenda Woodard and Delphine McIntyre. These lay caregivers, an extension of the chapel's programs and services, provide one-to-one Christian care to people in and around the chapel community who are bereaved, hospitalized, terminally ill, separated, divorced, unemployed, relocated or facing other crises or life challenges. Pastors, chapel staff and lay leaders attended a leaders' training course before directing the program. For more information, call Capt. (Chaplain) Winston Jones, 377-0327.