Dear Friends in Christ,
It has been my privilege to serve as the resident chaplain at St. Anselm’s Episcopal Chapel Center at USF for the last four years. In those four “short” years, the center has been renovated, and has firmly re-established its Episcopal identity. As our visibility increased throughout the USF community, curious students have been drawn to explore the possibility of deepening, or beginning, a relationship with Christ through worship and teaching in our rich, ancient Episcopal/Anglican tradition.
By providing weekly traditional worship and shared meals; gathering weekly for a mutual fascination with the theological themes of the television show, “The Walking Dead;” and providing sound Christian teaching, integrating faith into the unique, day-to-day, experiences of college students, the ministry grew from being completely shut down, with no students, to a vibrant student fellowship.
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