Posted: 5/14/04
Baptist student ministries seeking contact
with armed service academy new arrivals
Baptist student ministries at the United States armed service academies want to contact incoming cadets and midshipmen, campus ministry leaders emphasize.
At the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Baptist Student Union representatives are willing to provide special services to men and women who arrive early.
“For those arriving June 30, we will meet them at the airport, provide free lodging, meals, transportation, and take them to the academy at the appointed time on July 1. For those arriving July 1, the Air Force Academy buses will meet them, but we would like to know of their coming so we can make contact once they have arrived,” said Dwain Gregory, director of Baptist Collegiate Ministries at the Air Force Academy.
“This is an opportunity to meet smiling faces and make new Christian friends before beginning basic cadet training. If pastors, parents, relatives, friends or new cadets will contact us with name, address, telephone and e-mail address, we will contact them to secure flight arrival times and provide further information.”
Cadets arriving at the U.S. Air Force Academy can contact Gregory at (719) 599-9094 or [email protected] or Tom Clemmons at (719) 659-1525 or Clemmonsfam@adelphia.net.
Similar ministries are available to new arrivals at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and to the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis.
At West Point, contact Bill Blackwell at (845) 534-3944 or yb8731@usma.edu.
At the Naval Academy, contact Kirk Ritchey at (410) 263-0963 or ritchey@usna.edu.
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