Spiritual care military

Counselling soldiers

The Protestant Spiritual Care Service (DPGV) - at the request of the government - provides pastoral care to military personnel and, if necessary, to the military's supporters and veterans. The emphasis of the work is on counselling military personnel during their military deployment and during their training. This guidance is carried out by the Armed Forces Spiritual Guidance Officers, the so-called armed forces pastors.

Through the DPGV, deputies work closely with other Protestant churches to ensure spiritual care for the military.

Contact details DPGV

Information about church services and meetings abroad can be requested here.

Main Armed Forces Pastor's Office
Frederick Barracks geb. 110
MPC 58A
PO Box 90701
2509 LS The Hague
t: 070-3166783 or 070-3166788

Recruitment of armed forces pastors

Our deputation has an important task in the recruitment and selection of armed forces pastors. All eligible pastors are invited to apply.

Joint conferences

Together with the Committees for the Spiritual Care of Military Personnel of the Dutch Reformed Churches, we periodically organise conferences. For this, we invite the armed forces pastors from their and our churches to meet and reflect on current themes.

Contact with the government

Spiritual care in the armed forces is a shared responsibility between the government and the sending agencies (the churches). Therefore, through the Interdenominational Contact In Government Affairs - Military, abbreviated as CIO-M, also liaises with the government. The following churches are represented on this committee:

• General Baptist Society
• Bond van Vrije Evangelische Gemeenten in Nederland
• Brotherhood of Pentecostal and Evangelical Churches
• Christian Reformed Churches in the Netherlands
• Dutch Reformed Churches
• Protestant Church Netherlands
• Old Catholic Church
• Remonstrant Brotherhood
• Union of Baptist Churches in the Netherlands