On Becoming an Orthodox Godparent

A gift for my god-daughter – an icon of her patron saint

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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On Choosing Godparents: New Convert Probs

Baptism day for our son, together with his loving god-family and our dear priest

As a former evangelical Protestant, I didn’t grow up with godparents, but I had seen them in the movies, so I figured I pretty much understood what it was all about. To me, godparents seemed to be close family friends or extended family members who would be willing to adopt your child in the event that you and your spouse were dead. So, in hindsight, I may have been a little off.

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