Annapolis College Ministry News & Updates

2010 Nov. Advent Newsletter

2010-12-09T00:11:14Z

Dear Friends of Annapolis College Ministry (ACM): I write to you with great thanksgiving! Through your faithful contributions, we have been able to expand the ministry to the students at St. John’s and the Naval Academy in accordance with the vision that we presented to you earlier this year. We have six inquirers and catechumens journeying to Christ and His Church at this time. Twenty additional persons have come to the Orthodox Faith through this ministry over the past several years. Here’s a brief summary of some of our regular ministry activities on (and off) the campuses that you help make possible:

July 2010 Newsletter

2010-07-27T14:49:46Z

Plebe Summer 2010 is here! Glory to Jesus Christ! The new plebes (freshmen) have arrived and we are two weeks in to our annual ministry to this year’s incoming class at the U.S. Naval Academy. This year, they come from such vastly different places as American Samoa to Mississippi to the Northeast to the Republic of Georgia. As in past years our emphasis in teaching is on Godly Leadership: what it means to bring your communion with Christ to bear on your formation at the USNA and your military service. In all areas of our life we want to strive to glorify God; serving in the military is no different, and living for Christ is, in fact, all the more necessary!

Annapolis Mission Open House

2010-05-01T17:43:52Z

Please join us for an Open House; An Annapolis Orthodox Christian Mission will be starting in historic downtown Annapolis. St. John's OCF will be hosting an Open House on Saturday, May 8, 2010 at 4:30 p.m. at St. John’s College Boathouse to discuss the mission.

March 2010 Newsletter

2010-03-25T09:35:36Z

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…

February 2010 Newsletter

2010-02-08T13:46:37Z

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!

July 2009 Newsletter

2009-07-22T08:58:30Z

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.

Annapolis College Ministry: A Student’s Perspective

2009-05-27T18:19:00Z

(Guest entry from Thomas Browning, St. John’s College OCF Student Leader)

Dear Friends of Annapolis College Ministry,

I’m grateful for this opportunity to address you all because without your generous support of the ministry, I would not be an Orthodox Christian today.

April 2009 Newsletter

2009-04-01T18:14:00Z

I’m so pleased to report that God has been working through ACM in the lives of the students. Since the last newsletter, one student has been received into the Church and another has entered the catechumenate. In early March we went on a mission trip to Raphael House in San Francisco during St. John’s College’s spring break, and, upon returning, I got engaged. Thanks be to God!

December 2008 Newsletter

2008-12-30T19:11:00Z

Christ is born! Glorify Him! I wish you all a most blessed Christmas season and a blessed new year as well.

Christmas reminds me of how much I have to be thankful for and, thereby, of God’s love toward us seen foremost in the Incarnation of His Son and our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. I am also so thankful for all of you who make this ministry possible that is by God’s grace having such an impact on the lives of so many students.

November 2008 Newsletter

2008-11-15T19:00:00Z

Christ is in our midst! I’m writing to you before the ACM board’s annual meeting and giving thanks to God for His provision for this ministry over the past five years.

We have much to thank God for; here’s a snapshot: