About Us
Trinity Operations Center is founded by two military combat veterans in response to a couple of veteran suicides in the local veteran community and the struggle of veterans, especially young veterans, to find a Christ centered direction in their family life. This effort started with a Bible study for 1 veteran and steadily grew to a dozen participants and the pressure to start a church and expand the message of the gospel to a wider community. These issues will not be solved by just two people but rather by many people who believe that truth is embedded in reality and not subjective. That truth is in the gospel of Jesus Christ. Through Him and in His Word we hope to reinvigorate the desire to fulfill the innate and essential roles of manhood, womanhood. We hope to recharge the veterans' sense of moral duty and men's and women's yearnings for family and the truth of Jesus.
Neither Joe nor Warren is ordained but they seek to run the church along the lines of the church in the Book of Acts.
Joseph De Cree
MA: Homeland Security, MA: Pastoral Counseling
Joe is a retired Army officer with combat duty experience in Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Since retiring, he has obtained a Master’s Degree from Liberty University in Pastoral Counseling and a certification from American Association of Christian Counselors in Life Coaching and mental health coaching.
Joe began his military career in the waning days of the cold war. Joe got into the Army to wage war on terrorists, a growing problem from that time. He was commissioned and went on active duty in 1987. The Berlin wall fell in 1989 and the Army reduced its numbers. Joe went into the Army Reserve system. From the early days as a platoon commander thru the 1990s, Joe held mostly command positions. In 2000 he graduated the Special Forces Qualification or “Q” course. This was a late in career decision and he was told that was professional suicide. After September 11th, 2001 he deployed with his Operational Detachment Alpha (ODA) to Afghanistan. After Afghanistan he did a security contract in Iraq and began to teach Army ROTC as a retired officer.
Post military life became a struggle and Joe began a spiritual journey to learn about God in his life. Tired of addiction, anger, and a slow degrading of his health he went to the VA for counseling. Following the successful completion of that, he began work as a first responder chaplain and earned a masters degree in pastoral counseling. This led to helping other distressed veterans.
Today, Joe works as a Chaplain, lay counselor, & Life Coach helping first responders, victims of crime, addiction, and tragedy; veterans, and family members with issues related to grief, loss, trauma, depression, anxiety, and adjusting to life changes. He seeks to help people reframe circumstances and explore new life possibilities within a Christ centered context. He is Trinity Operations Center pastor and brings his extensive knowledge, experience, and even humor to his discussions on Sundays. Joe and his wife of 31 years have two grown daughters and a beautiful young granddaughter.
William Warren Childs
AAS: Paramedicine
Warren is a Marine Corps veteran, husband, father, and patriot. He and his wife, Christine, have been married for 16 years and have four children.
During he served as an infantryman in 1st Battalion 5th Marines. He first deployed as part of Battalion Landing Team 1/5 for the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit..
He then deployed to Afghanistan as an infantry bomb dog handler. This operation, Operation Strike of the Sword, marked the largest helo born insertion since the vietnam war; inserting over 5000 Marines into southern helmand province within 24 hours. He and his dog, Ringo, found over a dozen IEDs leading to the discovery of over 1000lbs of taliban explosives.
When he returned home he was offered a job by a military contractor who trained the infantry bomb dog handlers and their dogs. In his four years as an instructor, he trained over 300 Marines as dog handlers.
He struggled with PTSD, TBI, seizures and other neurological symptoms. Being determined to be a better father and husband he seeked help for PTSD. This changed him immensely. As others noticed the change, he was asked to help other veterans.
Him and his wife worked with dozens on veterans and servicemembers, strugling suicidal thoughts and in crisis. Warren, worked with these veterans for over ten years.
Still struggling with neurological problems and seizures. The VA neurologist had him on seizure medication which had him often psychotic. This, ruining his marriage came to a head. He, followed by his family a time later, began treatment for the TBI and seizures in Florida. This bettered his life and, along with family therapy, saved his marriage.
After, he and his wife began sharing with other veteran families the things they learned about TBI. Since, he and Joe noticed veterans were being underserved by, and dismissed for who they intrinsically are (warriors), by the church at large. He and Joe began holding bible studies which grew rapidly.
Warren, and his wife, are passionate about serving and teaching veteran families about the healing available to veterans, they learned, through the struggles and traumatic experiences they endured; to bring healing to veterans and their families.
