Offering help
The Baptist Student Union at the United States Air Force Academy would like to contact men and women reporting to the Academy June 29 and 30. For those arriving June 29, we will meet them at the airport, provide free lodging, meals, transportation and take them to the Academy at the appointed time on June 30. For those arriving June 30, 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. 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 email address, we will contact them to secure flight arrival times and provide further information.
The Air Force Academy Baptist Student Union is a widely recognized organization and is here for the purpose of contributing to cadets' spiritual growth. Through the support of the North American Mission Board, the Colorado Baptist General Convention, the Pikes Peak Baptist Association and local churches, the BSU provides a most active and effective ministry. We seek to minister to cadets through Bible study, discipleship and evangelism training, local church involvement, worship, fellowship, along with mission and ministry endeavors.
Please contact Mary Kathryn Kelly, 820 Timbertop Ct., Colorado Springs, CO 80921; (719) 484-0347 or (719) 660-1676; wwmkk@earthlink.net; or Bill Gandy, 550 West Woodmen Rd., Colorado Springs, CO 80919; (719) 635-0026; bgandy@ppba.org
Also, for anyone attending West Point, the Naval Academy or Coast Guard Academy, similar ministries are provided.
At West Point contact Dwain Gregory, 83-80 118th St, #2P, Kew Gardens, NY 11415; (719) 963-4477; Dwain.Gregory@usma.edu or LeeDGreg@aol.com.
At the Naval Academy contact Kirk Ritchey, 201 Hanover Street, Annapolis, MD 21401; (443) 994-1938; ritchey@usna.edu.
At the Coast Guard Academy contact Randy Barnes, 99 Maple Ave, Uncasville, CT 06382; (860) 848-6628; nlcministry@sbcglobal.net.
Mary Kathryn, Associate Director
Baptist Collegiate Ministries
United States Air Force Academy