Annapolis College Ministry

5th Week of Great Lent

Dear Friend of Annapolis College Ministry:

Glory to Jesus Christ!  Glory to Him forever!  Lent provides a great opportunity to focus on what’s most important.  As we struggle for healing from our sin-sickness and grow in our life in Christ, we are reminded through our increased prayer and fasting how to be thankful.  

Last time I wrote to you last Fall, a new year of ministry at St. John’s and the U.S.  Naval Academy was just starting.  I shared our vision of reaching out to the women and men of both these venerable institutions with their own weekly Bible studies on the Orthodox Faith and increased opportunities for both communities to worship and grow together.  All this has happened and so much more…

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Christ is in our midst! He is and ever shall be! So much has happened since I last wrote to you last Fall. In that newsletter, which we sent out snail mail, we shared with you our vision to grow the ministry by offering the students specific men’s and women’s Bible studies at both St. John’s College and the U.S. Naval Academy.

I also shared with you that I was to be ordained to the diaconate by His Beatitude, Metropolitan Jonah, which took place on 14 December at St. Nicholas OCA Cathedral in D.C. Soon afterwards, my Matushka and I found out that we are expecting. Praise God!

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Glory to Jesus Christ! Glory to Him forever! Thank you for your prayers for my newly wed wife, Kristina (Krissy) and I. We were married May 24 and are gratefully beginning our new life together. At the same time, I have begun another year of Plebe Summer Ministry, which began the beginning of July. This is my fourth year ministering to the freshman class of midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy; it is a great opportunity to impact our future leaders with the truth of the Gospel and Orthodox Faith.

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