Project A.R.E.S. is dedicated to providing spiritual assistance to
enlisted personnel in the form of pocket-sized ritual kits which can be
easily transported and kept on one's person. The kits are designed to
serve the needs of enlisted personnel of many different Earth-based
religious traditions.
The initials A.R.E.S stand for A Ritual
for Enlisted Soldiers, in addition to being the name of the
Greco-Roman God of War.
Note! Although the name says for Enlisted
soldiers, all military personnel are eligible to receive a kit. This is
what happens when you have non-military people naming projects, sorry!
Why Ritual Kits?
There are a great many groups offering spiritual
assistance to military persons. The vast majority of the support offered,
however, is based in Christianity. We would like to provide an alternative
to those people who are of Earth-based religions. The ritual kits were
created as a way for soldiers to bring their faith with them
wherever they go.
What Earth-based
religions do you support?
The kits were created to allow many different
Earth-based faiths to benefit from them. We have included a generic ritual
of protection, and sacred writings from Celtic, Greco-Roman, Nordic and
Egyptian backgrounds. Thus we include Pagans, Witches, Wiccans, Asatru,
Druids, Kemetic, Stregha, Ceremonialists and many other Earth-based faiths.
Why do we have to send the completed kits or
materials to you?
Project A.R.E.S. is a service to the larger community. We are
acting as a central repository for kits, as a central contact location,
and as a continuous place of support for the project. Kits can be ordered
by individual soldiers or their families, or they can be ordered by
military chaplains for them to have them "on-hand" for any soldiers who
require spiritual assistance and are of an Earth-based spiritual path.
It's important that there be a stable place for contact information.
But "the war" is over!
Project A.R.E.S. is intended to be a long-term
project supporting our covenmates, kin and kindred in the military,
regardless of the current state of political affairs.
How do I contact you?
Project A.R.E.S.
3464 West 3800 South
West Valley City, UT 84119
801-330-6666 (Ask for Heron)
or email ares at sacredcirclechurch dot com
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