Faith Community Fellowship

Faith Community Fellowship Faith Community Fellowship is the combination of two congregations; Airborne Artillery Memorial Congregation and John F. Kennedy Memorial Chapel.

Come join us for Protestant service Sunday mornings at 1100.

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Building D-3116, Ardennes Street
Fort Bragg, NC
28310

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9:45am - 12:30pm

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History of JFK Memorial Chapel

John F. Kennedy Memorial Chapel has been a place of solace and comfort for the Special Operations Community for over 50 years. If the walls of this sacred place could speak, they would tell of untold families coming together in worship and praise of their Creator. These walls could chronicle many beginnings of military families with the solemnization of wedding vows and the sacraments of baptisms and dedications that have taken place. These walls could reveal numerous experiences of sorrow and grief as innumerable families have found consolation and strength in times of grief and loss.

From the traditions of “Live Nativity” scenes, which began in the 1960s, to the “Living Last Supper,” which dates from the early 1990s, members of this chapel community have sought to minister to the soldiers and families of the Special Operations and Fort Bragg Communities in unique ways.

Before the construction of the John F. Kennedy Memorial Chapel, two, World War II-era Chapels 21 and 22, located at Smoke Bomb Hill, served as the U.S. Army Special Warfare Chapels. Around 1978, Chapel 22, the Special Forces Catholic Chapel 22 was removed during the modernization of Smoke Bomb Hill facilities. Chapel 21, currently called Castle Chapel or Smoke Bomb Hill Chapel, was the Special Forces Protestant Chapel and today it still serves Fort Bragg congregants. It is still located on the corner of Gruber and Sapper Streets.

In 1963, through the untiring efforts of William P. Yarborough, the former commanding general of the John F. Kennedy Center for Special Warfare, Congress approved plans to build John F. Kennedy Memorial Chapel. On Thursday, December 2, 1965, the dedication took place officiated by Chaplain (Major General) Charles W. Brown, Jr., U. S. Army Chief of Chaplains (November 1962 — 31 July 1967).