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Ascension's Campus Work Thrives at Colorado State University February 2004
Church of the Ascension also has a parallel campus organization, the Canterbury Reading Club, which meets on the 1st & 3rd Wednesdays of months that school is in session in Room 217 of the Lory Student Center. An excerpt of a work by C.S. Lewis or some other notable Christian author is usually read and discussed at the meetings. Pizza and soda are provided. The student that you see in the accompanying photograph is Ascension's
newest member. Her name is Menita, and she is from a Hindu family
in Madras, India. After studying with Fr. Smith for five months,
she was baptized in the Danforth Chapel last October. When she completes
her studies for a Master's degree in Computer Information Systems,
she will return to Madras with her fiance Moses (who took this photograph)
and join a congregation of the Church of South India. You see her
in native
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Anglican
Church of the Ascension in Fort Collins, Colorado, is a new
congregation that meets for Sunday worship on the campus of Colorado
State University. Fr. Jeffrey Smith and his wife Lynn formed this
congregation in the spring of 2002 as an extension of All Saints
Anglican Church, a mission of the APCK in Cheyenne, Wyoming. It
is now one of several in the Province designed to serve both town
& gown. After a year and a half in operation, Ascension has
more than twenty persons in attendance at the Eucharist on a typical
Sunday. The congregation has ten student members, as well as one
other who attends regularly and is preparing for baptism. The place
of worship is the beautiful Danforth Chapel at the entrance to the
Oval of Colorado State University, which can be accessed from Laurel
St. on Howes Av. The traditional Eucharistic Liturgy (1928 Book
of Common Prayer) begins at 10:30 am and is followed by refreshments
in the churchyard. Visitor's Guides are provided to make the Liturgy
easy to follow.
