Service of Commissioning
May 11, 2012. You are cordially invited to attend the John Jay Institute’s service of commissioning of the Spring 2012 Class at the George Washington Memorial Chapel in Valley Forge National Park. The service begins at 7:00 pm to be followed by a reception. Contact Mrs. Nancy Browne to RSVP. Email: nbrowne@johnjayinstitute.org or telephone: 215-987-3000.
Click here and here for photos from the last commissioning.
John Jay was both a committed Christian and a national leader. He served not only as President of the Continental Congress, Secretary for Foreign Affairs and Chief Justice of the United States; he served in the vestry of his local church and in national religious organizations. Jay did not see religion and politics as isolated: he used religious rhetoric in his political papers and employed political skills in religious arenas. Jay would, I believe, be very pleased to see a new John Jay Institute formed, to raise up a new generation of leaders, grounded in the Christian faith and our American legal and political system."
Walter Stahr, Esq.
Author, John Jay: Founding Father
