Becoming a Godparent by Chrismation
My husband, Mark, and I were blessed to become godparents for the first time on Christmas 2015 when our friends the Mathwin family converted to Orthodoxy from Anglicanism. Like us, the Mathwins followed the lead of the father of their family, a man who had wanted to become Orthodox for twelve years. Although the Mathwins had attended the same large, Anglican church that our family attended prior to our Chrismation, we had not known each other. Yet, here we were. God led us all to the same place: a tiny, Western Rite Orthodox mission in rural Bealeton, Virginia.
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