Bishop C. Anthony Muse is the founder and Senior Pastor of the Ark of Safety Christian Church of Upper Marlboro, Maryland and founder and president of the Ark of Safety Bible College. An ordained minister for more than twenty-five years, Muse is one of Prince George’s County Maryland’s most prominent pastors. He founded the Ark in 1999 after resigning from the United Methodist Church. He is a nationally respected preacher whose sermons are broadcast on television in 8 cities.

In May of 2004, Muse purchased and renovated the 57-thousand square-foot Melwood Mall in Upper Marlboro. It now serves as the church’s 2000-seat sanctuary and administrative headquarters (Ark of Safety North); and it houses the bible college. Future expansion plans include a youth recreation center, school, and senior center to be built in Ft. Washington.

Muse is an elected member of the Joint College of Pentecostal Bishops based in Cleveland, Ohio. He serves on the Kingdom Fellowship Apostolic Council of Kingdom Fellowship Covenant Ministries, an international organization based in Towson, Maryland.

Muse is the founder of Clergy United, an activist group of more than 150 pastors in Prince George’s County and the Washington Metropolitan area.

Muse is a Maryland State Senator representing the 26th legislative district and he serves as Chair of the Prince George’s County Senate Delegation. His committees include the Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee, Joint Committee on Children, Family & Youth, & Joint Committee on Healthcare Delivery & Finance. In 2007, he was appointed by the Senate President to the National Conference of State Legislatures; and he serves on the Human Service & Welfare Committee, the Maryland Medicaid Advisory Committee and the Task Force to Study Group Homes Education & Placement.

Muse holds a Doctorate of Ministry in Church and Community Development from Howard University, a Masters of Divinity from Wesley Theological Seminary, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in history from Morgan State University.

Muse is married to Pat Lawson Muse, a news anchor for NBC-4 TV in Washington, DC. She serves as an elder at the Ark of Safety.

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Pat Lawson Muse anchors News4 at 4 with Jim Handly and hosts Reporter's Notebook, a weekly public affairs show seen Sunday mornings. She also files reports for News4's afternoon and evening newscasts and is a host for News4 This Week, a weekly show highlighting stories from the Washington, D.C., area.

Muse joined News4 in 1982 as anchor of local newsbreaks during NBC's Today show. She then became co-anchor of News4 at Noon where, along with Barbara Harrison, was one of the first all-female anchor teams in the country. For nine years, Muse was the anchor of the weekend editions of News4 at 6 and News 4 at 11.

In 2005, Muse was part of the team to redesign News4 at 4. This unique newscast, built around the theme NBC4 Connected, highlights the synergy between News4 and its website. Through the broadcast and the website, viewers participate in and comment on various stories throughout the hour. Muse came to NBC4 from WBAL-TV in Baltimore, where she was a news anchor and general assignment reporter. Her broadcasting career began in Washington radio, where she worked at stations including WTOP-AM, WOL-AM, WHUR-FM, National Public Radio, and the Mutual Black Network.

Muse has won several EMMY Awards and EMMY nominations, including two EMMYS for “Best Anchor.” She has also been recognized by the American Association of University Women, the National Association of Black Journalists, the International Television and Film Festival of New York, the National Congress of Black Women, Inc DC Chapter, and the Minority Business and Professionals Network. Muse is a magna cum laude graduate of Howard University where she studied broadcast management. A native of Las Vegas, Muse now lives in Maryland with her husband, Maryland Senator C. Anthony Muse, who is chair of the Maryland Senate Delegation.

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Ark of Safety Christian Church
9402 Marlboro Pike
Upper Marlboro, MD

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1. Take I-95 Capital Beltway to Exit-11A (Pennsylvania Avenue) toward Upper Marlboro
   
2. Proceed on Pennsylvania Avenue through two traffic lights
   
3. After the 2nd traffic light (at Suitland Parkway) move into the FAR RIGHT lane
   
4. When you see the "EXIT" sign, move again to the RIGHT (go toward Dowerhouse Road)
   
5. Go straight through the light at Dowerhouse Road.  You will then be on Marlboro Pike
   
6. Proceed 1/4 of a mile.  The church is on the LEFT next to BB&T bank
   

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The Ark Mission

Our mission is simple. It is to rescue the perishing.

Our mission is further defined by our name, "The Ark of Safety"; thus we provide a refuge and safe haven for those who seek Christ, and we point others to "new life" through our witness and ministry.

The Ark Vision

Our vision is to build a worship and work center where persons can come for salvation and become spiritually equipped to do Christian work. It is to carry out the great commission according to Matthew 28:19, "Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing then in the name of the Father, and the Son, and of the Holy Ghost."

Beliefs of the Ark

At the Ark, we believe the secret power of the "WORD" lies in Prayer, Praise, Purpose and Work. Our sole purpose as a functioning part of the body of Christ is to sow and reap a harvest for the kingdom.

Our goal is to empower the saints and to show sinners the way of the cross, the purpose of the cross and God's desire and plan to make complete appropriation for every area of need in our lives, that we might "HAVE" life and "SHARE" life abundantly.

What We Believe

1) THE SOVEREIGNTY OF GOD
We believe that God is not answerable to anyone for any of His actions. That as King, and Ruler of all, He exercises His will without any accountability to none but Himself. There is no power nor person who is able to overturn, or make void the Will and purpose of God. He does not seek counsel from anyone. He is the Creator of all and holds all things together in accordance with His will, and for His good pleasure.

2) THE TRINITY
We believe that the Holy Scriptures reveal that while there is only one God, He is a trinity. God is the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost, these three being one. This oneness being of the same essence, nature, and purpose. God is spirit.

3) THE VIRGIN BIRTH OF JESUS CHRIST
We believe that Jesus Christ was born of a virgin, conceived by the Holy Ghost. This was God revealed in the flesh as predicted by the Holy Scriptures. His birth was both a miracle and a mystery. Jesus Christ was fully man and fully God. Because of this miraculous birth He became the only mediator between God and man.

4) THE SUBSITUTIONARY DEATH OF JESUS CHRIST
We believe that the death of Jesus Christ was and is a subsitutionary death that becomes effective for all those who put faith in Jesus Christ as savior. Substitution meaning all of the full impact of the wages of sin being paid once and for all through the death of Jesus Christ. When Christ died, we died. This great truth must be reckoned and accounted as fact for all believers.

5) THE DEITY OF JESUS CHRIST
We believe that Jesus Christ is God, having all of the attributes, qualities, nature and character belonging to God. He made Himself to be equal with God, because He was God, and is God.

6) THE BODILY RESURRECTION OF JESUS CHRIST
We believe that Jesus Christ arose bodily from the grave. His resurrection was a complete and total resurrection. His bodily resurrection gives hope that we too one day will experience a bodily resurrection.

7) THE TOTAL DEPRAVITY OF MANKIND
We believe that due to sin, man is totally depraved. He is born in sin. He is dead in his sins and trespasses, and therefore has no capacity to respond to God. There is none that does good there is none that seeks after God. It is because of man's total depravity, that God has to extend grace and cause life to enter into death and cause resurrection and new life to dead men.

8) SALVATION BY GRACE ALONE THROUGH FAITH ALONE
We believe that salvation is provided by God by His grace alone. No one earns salvation. No one is able to fulfill the requirements for true righteousness. So God therefore gives it as a gift. This gift however, can only be received through faith. It is a receiving of the gift that God gives that is based on the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, His Son. Good works do not produce salvation, but salvation produces good works.

9) THE NECESSITY OF BEING BORN AGAIN FOR SALVATION
We believe that one must be born again, by the Spirit of God in order to enter into the Kingdom of God. There is nothing of the human nature or flesh that is suitable for heaven. Reformation is not good enough. God provides a total new creation that is initiated through the new birth. We become partakers of God's nature through the new birth. It is only natural that that which is born of the flesh is flesh, but that which is born of the spirit is spirit. This new birth is a spiritual birth that all children of God must experience.

10) THE DEITY AND PERSONAGE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
We believe that the Holy Spirit is God. We believe that He is a person; that He has all of the characteristics of personage. Holy Scripture reveals that the Holy Spirit can be grieved, that He comforts, that He teaches, that He leads, and that He strengthens. The Holy Spirit is not an influence, a power or anything else that lacks personage. He should never be referred to as "it". He is holy and posses all of the attributes, qualities, nature and character of God. He is God.

11) THE BAPTISM, FILLING AND EMPOWERMENT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
We believe that all believers receive the Holy Spirit at the point of regeneration or being born again. After the new birth, there are times of being filled with the Spirit; of being empowered by the Spirit, and being immersed, united or baptized by the Spirit. We believe that the experience of empowering, filling and being baptized by the Spirit can be different and not limited to only one manifestation. We believe that in any case the Holy Spirit's work results in enabling the believer for service in the Kingdom of God throughout the world wherever He may send His servants.

12) THE UNITY AND INTERDEPENDENCY OF THE BODY OF CHRIST
We believe that there is only one body, the church of Jesus Christ; and that each member of the body is dependent of other members of the body. We are members one of another. No member of the body is less important than another member. In fact, God bestows more abundant honor on those members that seem less important so that there will be no schism in the body.

13) THE COMMISSION OF THE CHURCH TO MAKE DISCIPLES
We believe that the major focus of the church is to make disciples, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Ghost, teaching them to observe to do all that He taught us.

14) THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT
We believe that believers should grow and manifest the fruit of the Spirit of God, which are listed in Galatians 5. We believe that believers should be as concerned about the evidence of the fruit of the Spirit as with the evidence of the gifts of the Spirit. For the fruit of the Spirit is the power that makes the gifts of the Spirit effective.

15) THE GIFTS OF THE SPIRIT
We believe that all believers are given several gifts by the Holy Spirit. These gifts enable all believers to function effectively in service to others both within and without the Kingdom of God. These gifts are supernatural, and work in the spiritual realm. The gifts are given by the Holy Spirit as He sees fit. These gifts will empower and provide believers to do the work and will of God in service to others. Gifts are not given for show, but for work. They are empowered by the power of God. Believers must know how to move in their gifts under the control and direction of the Holy Spirit and their spirit. Believers must know how to serve in an orderly and decent way. The body is to be edified and built up as a result of the gifts. The possessor of the gift should not use the gift to edify himself; it is given for body ministry.

16) THE INERRANCY, SUFFICIENCY AND AUTHORITY OF SCRIPTURE
We believe that the Bible, Holy Scripture is inerrant. It has no errors in the original autographs. Translation may have produced some minor errors, but still with these small errors, the Bible is without mistake. We believe that the Bible is all that man needs to meet his every need. It is sufficient for doctrine, for instruction, for correction; it can equip anyone for righteousness in every way. It is the line for all discovery and discernment of truth. As such, we believe that the Holy Scriptures are the first line of authority in the believer's life. The Word of God is to be obeyed, and every activity and intention of the church and each member must conform to its teachings.

17) SANCTIFICATION; PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE
We believe that believers experience sanctification as a past act through the death of Jesus Christ; as a present act as the Holy Spirit through the blood of Jesus Christ cleanses us; as a future act when we shall be changed and made like Jesus Christ experiencing the fullness of sanctification.

18) THE LORDSHIP OF JESUS CHRIST
We believe that Jesus Christ is Lord. Once one is born again, Christ becomes Lord over the believer. He is the Head of His body of which each believer belongs. His life is no longer his, but belongs totally to Jesus Christ. Believers are to be totally submissive to Him, obedient to Him, honoring Him as Lord.

19) JUSTIFICATION
We believe that all believers are justified totally and completely by the blood of Jesus Christ. This justification is a position that the believer has as a result of the atonement provided by Christ. God sees us as if we had no sin, because Jesus became sin for us that we might become the righteousness of God.

20) THE IMMINENT RETURN OF JESUS CHRIST
We believe that Jesus Christ will return again. That there are no prophecies needing to be fulfilled before He returns. So He could come at anytime. We believe that no one knows the day nor the hour when He will return. All believers should therefore live as if it could happen today.

We do not presume to say that our beliefs represents the final word on Bible truth, and we shall probably have occasion to refine, revise, and enlarge parts of it as we pursue our way in God. We are persuaded, however, that it is consistent with the truth and right purpose to "set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us." (Luke 1:1). Such a statement puts in the hands of the present membership a summary of the truths to which we bear witness, and also provides a basis for instructing those who are joined to us in the Lord.