Chaplain John Revell is the Founder and Executive Director of The GY6 Initiative, Inc., a nonprofit organization dedicated to reducing first responder suicides by providing free online video wellness resources designed specifically for the realities of the job. John brings more than four decades of ministry, communications, and first responder chaplaincy experience to that mission. He served over 15 years in pastoral ministry in New York, Connecticut, and Florida, and more than 14 years as a first-responder chaplain. John also served 15 years with the Executive Committee of the Southern Baptist Convention in Nashville, Tennessee, as Associate Editor and later Editor of SBC LIFE, the Executive Committee’s official publication. His work combined writing, editing, theological communication, and engagement with issues affecting churches, pastors, families, and communities across the nation. Following the Sandy Hook shooting in 2012, John’s ministry increasingly shifted toward first responders. Over the next 14 years – ten of them full-time – he served as a chaplain embedded with police, fire, EMS, and emergency communications personnel in Connecticut. His official chaplaincy assignments included the Stamford Police Department, Stamford 911 Dispatch, Stamford Fire Department, Westport Police Department, Connecticut State Police, and Newtown Police Department, while also responding to critical incidents involving numerous other agencies. During those years, John walked alongside first responders through some of the most difficult experiences of their careers and lives. That experience gave him an unusually close view of the culture, pressures, isolation, stigma, and barriers to seeking help that confront first responders. John holds a Master of Divinity degree from Denver Seminary and a bachelor’s degree in Marriage and Family Counseling. His years of frontline chaplaincy ultimately led him to establish the GY6 Initiative. GY6 is developing a scalable national platform of private, stigma-free video wellness resources available to first responders anytime and anywhere, helping first responders stay alive.
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- Location: Gallatin, TN
- Availability: High
- Speaker Themes: Confessions of a Recovering Baptist Pastor: the Journey of One Minister from the Farm House to the Fields | Moral Injury/Trauma: Surviving the Dark Side of Life
