Our FOCUS
Our Director - John Gillespie
Our Volunteers
VetsShare helps "vets share" by connecting them with other faith-based resources that provide a safe place to share their story and gain insight. We are building a referral list of faith-based counselors and churches offering resources for veterans. That list will become active in 2025.
We believe:
- Moving from isolation to sharing our chall
VetsShare helps "vets share" by connecting them with other faith-based resources that provide a safe place to share their story and gain insight. We are building a referral list of faith-based counselors and churches offering resources for veterans. That list will become active in 2025.
We believe:
- Moving from isolation to sharing our challenges is a vital key to finding healing and wholeness.
- Professional counseling is valuable for any struggling veteran and a good resource for everyone, because we all have blind spots and character defects a counselor can help us address.
- Professional Christian counselors and Pastoral counselors offer the best hope for gaining insight that aligns with the wisdom found in the Bible.
- In addition to having a counselor, all of us benefit from connecting with a peer group that understands our struggles. Veterans who connect with other veterans in a process-group, experience greater healing.
- Life is found not just in gaining knowledge, but in serving others. Finding a place to serve in a Christian church is a key to finding purpose and passion for life.
Our Volunteers
Our Director - John Gillespie
Our Volunteers
VetsShare volunteers are veterans, who are followers of Jesus, and are willing to lead by example. They have their own connection to a Christian counselor and/or an on-going veteran share group and are involved with a local Christian church. They promote our site by uploading their story and encouraging other veterans to connect with th
VetsShare volunteers are veterans, who are followers of Jesus, and are willing to lead by example. They have their own connection to a Christian counselor and/or an on-going veteran share group and are involved with a local Christian church. They promote our site by uploading their story and encouraging other veterans to connect with the caregivers that will be listed.
Veterans do not pay anything to receive help. Our volunteers do not receive any compensation.
Our Director - John Gillespie
Our Director - John Gillespie
Our Director - John Gillespie
John Gillespie, VetsShare President (right), was honored as the 2023 Veteran of the Year for Wisconsin's 8th District, recognizing outstanding community service. The award was presented by Congressman Mike Gallaher (left), a U.S. Marine, who served two tours in Iraq as an intelligence officer on the staff of David Petraeus.
John served as
John Gillespie, VetsShare President (right), was honored as the 2023 Veteran of the Year for Wisconsin's 8th District, recognizing outstanding community service. The award was presented by Congressman Mike Gallaher (left), a U.S. Marine, who served two tours in Iraq as an intelligence officer on the staff of David Petraeus.
John served as a U.S. Army Captain in a combat engineer battalion. He is the author of "Our 351 Sons", the story of him and his wife Jan founding Rawhide Boys Ranch and partnering with Bart & Cherry Starr of the Green Bay Packers. Over 35 years as houseparents, John & Jan had 351 teenage boys live in their home. Rawhide was named by President George H.W. Bush as a National Point of Light.
John is passionate about encouraging others to support VetsShare's effort to connect veterans with faith-based resources that we believe provide the best hope for healing.