Ministry
Seamans was born in Morgan City, Louisiana.
He was baptized in the Southern Baptist tradition at the age of 11. In 1985, at the age of 18, he was licensed to preach in the Southern Baptist church and began his ministry there, working as a summer missionary on the rural Louisiana coast. He attended college at the University of Southwestern Louisiana in Lafayette and graduated in May 1990 with a bachelor's degree in liberal arts (then known as general studies).
During college he was employed as a police officer and completed the police academy in 1987. After graduation he moved to Mountain Home, Arkansas and went to work with the Mountain Home Police department where he has been promoted to lieutenant before retiring in 2011. Seamans states he felt a growing desire to fulfill a vacuum in his spiritual life and in 1997 he began to study Church history and liturgy. Then, he states, he found a historical, ancient expression of Christianity in the Anglican tradition.
He began to study classical Anglicanism, including Thomas Cranmer and Richard Hooker. He states that at this time he found a home in the Anglican Church.
Read more about this topic: Sam Seamans
Famous quotes containing the word ministry:
“The State has but one face for me: that of the police. To my eyes, all of the State’s ministries have this single face, and I cannot imagine the ministry of culture other than as the police of culture, with its prefect and commissioners.”
—Jean Dubuffet (1901–1985)