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Ryan Freedle
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Love one another as I have loved you. John 13:34 |
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Greetings in our Lord’s name! I am blessed to have been called to serve as the Chaplain to Canterbury Colorado and am looking forward to my ministry at Canterbury and St. Aidan’s. Allow me to briefly introduce myself .
My interest in and commitment to campus ministry comes from my own faith transition during my undergraduate years. Having been raised in northern Minnesota, I attended Concordia College (Moorhead, Minnesota) as a Christian of evangelical persuasion. Because of several people in campus and parish ministries who took profound interest in serving as mentors and spiritual advisors during that period of my life, I came to a fuller, sacramentally and historically grounded faith through baptism and confirmation at the age of 21. College is a hugely influential time for bringing the Gospel to students’ lives, as I can attest from my own experience! I believe we as Christians have a great responsibility to bring the Church to the university and the university to the Church.
I am a new priest, ordained June 29, 2007 at my sponsoring parish – Gethsemane Cathedral – in Fargo, North Dakota. This was the very same parish in which I was baptized and confirmed – the parish that embraced me as a college-age convert to the Episcopal Church. A recent seminary graduate, I completed my Master of Divinity and Anglican Studies degrees at Yale University Divinity School and Berkeley Divinity School, in New Haven, Connecticut, in May 2007. While in seminary I completed three internship placements – at a small parish church, in a hospital chaplaincy, and with the Episcopal Church at Yale (a campus ministry serving around 50-60 students per week at our Sunday evening services). Additionally while in Connecticut, I served as organist / music director for a large Episcopal parish.
Along with the Canterbury Peer Ministers, the Board of Stewards, and Mother Mary Kate, I hope to provide a solid worshiping community at Canterbury and a place where students may know the peace of God in their lives. We will be working on increasing our visibility and presence on campus in the coming weeks and months, so come along with us and see what God has in store! I look forward to our ministry together!
Grace and Peace, |
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Rev. Dustin Berg |
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Jennie Carr |
