About Us…
Our Manual
The Holy Bible (KJV)
The 1928 Book of Common Prayer
Our Message
Jesus Christ crucified, buried, risen and coming again!
We believe God loves you with no exceptions! There are no conditions on the unconditional love of God.
Our Mission & Vision
We offer Mass to all those who wish to receive.
Celebrate the Sacraments
Pray Daily (as a Church & Individually)
Encourage personal spiritual growth
Support each other in love & charity
Reach out in service to the community
Teach the Christian Faith
We seek to return to an authentic Christian worship experience, to find true spirituality in our hearts and lives, discover and present genuine Christianity in those around us and experience the joy of Jesus Christ in our daily lives.
We believe that faith is more than just a set of beliefs; it’s a way of life. Our vision is to create a spiritual community that is welcoming and empowering while laying aside mainline denominational barriers. We strive to be a place where individuals can connect with others, explore their faith, and find guidance and support along the way.
Our core values are rooted in the teachings of Jesus Christ, and we seek to live out these values in everything we do. We believe that love, kindness, and acceptance are essential to a meaningful spiritual experience, and we work to create a space where marginalized and oppressed groups feel valued and respected. We welcome all who take Jesus’ command to love our neighbor as ourselves and whatever we do to the least of them, we do to Jesus.
Through our various programs and initiatives, we aim to build a community that is actively engaged in the world around us. Whether through community outreach or social justice work, we strive to be a force for good in our community and beyond. We believe that everyone has a unique spiritual journey, and we are committed to supporting and guiding individuals as they explore their faith. We invite you to join us on this journey, as we work together to create a vibrant and welcoming spiritual community.
Our mission is to spread the word of the Holy Scriptures, offer the sacraments and provide the church to those that seek it, and can't find it elsewhere. We do not (and will not) spend our time doing debate. This simply is not practical. We share Jesus and the love that God has for ALL people. We are a vibrant community steeped in tradition, bringing the concepts and precepts of the Ancient Apostolic Churches to our modern age. We are open, Christ centered, Scripture based, non-judgmental and non-political.
Our Music
Christ Centered
God Honoring
Uplifting & Traditional
Our Goals
To Worship God
To Grow in holiness
To share the Anglican-Catholic Faith with others
Our Identity
Our parish has a rich history in the Old Catholic and Anglican faith.
"We must hold fast to that faith which has been believed everywhere, always, and by all the Faithful."
-St. Vincent of Lerins
We describe ourselves as passionately Anglican and devoutly Catholic. Anglicanism is the continuation of the Catholic Faith, expressed both in doctrine and liturgy.
Anglican Christianity is rooted in the ancient faith and practice of the first century church, tracing its history through missionaries to the British Isles and the development of Celtic Christianity early in the first millennium A.D.
Anglicanism upholds the authority of Scripture, is guided by Apostolic Tradition and is instructed by the English Reformation. It's essential statement of faith is expressed in both the Nicene and Apostles Creeds. It has received the English Book of Common Prayer, originally published in 1549, as its beautiful liturgical worship resource. Driven by a missionary focus Anglican Christianity has been about the work of making disciples for centuries and has expanded into a global church.
As Anglican people, we believe in scripture, tradition and reason and they are explained further as this:
Scripture: We affirm Holy Scripture as an expression of God’s unconditional love for us and we recognize that these teachings are spiritual bread for our journeys with God and one another.
Tradition: We affirm a history of relationship with God expressed through sacraments, liturgy, revelation and communal experience. We are based on the ancient model that existed for over 1500 years in Christian History. Our practices and beliefs were set down by our Lord, the Apostles and early Church Fathers up to 325 AD.
Reason: We affirm God-given reason and the wisdom that can be expressed when the Holy Spirit allows us to review scripture, tradition and our experiences to find answers and to seek a fuller consciousness.
Independent
We are an independent, autonomous group of believers who function as a close-knit body in worship, service and fellowship. We believe every individual is important to God and a soul for whom Jesus died. We are friendly, family-oriented, warm and down-to-earth. We love the Lord and strive to serve Him in sincerity and in truth. We love people and attempt to help them through offering the sacraments, strong and solid Bible preaching and teaching, witnessing and friendship. Please come join us for praise, worship and fellowship.
Our independence serves as a safeguard against potential abuses of power and doctrinal deviations, as it encourages us to uphold fidelity to the Bible, the 1928 Book of Common Prayer and the spiritual integrity of our practices and teachings. This commitment to autonomy, coupled with a shared commitment to doctrinal orthodoxy, fosters a sense of unity and diversity within the broader network of the Free Anglican Mission Society, allowing for mutual support and collaboration while preserving the distinct identity of our parish.
Traditional
We are not interested in being popular with the world. We are not trendy. You will not find much more than a piano and organ for our musical instruments. You will not find smoke machines or extreme "concert" style lighting. What you will find is a group of Christians coming together without regard to race, gender, sexuality, political views and even some with theologically different viewpoints. You will find people who gather for reverent worship. We believe in an historic faith which is a still point in a changing world. The Church is a rock, a sure foundation on which we can build our own lives.
We continue in the historic Anglican-Catholic expression of the Christian Faith as the same has been transmitted to us through the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, the Creeds of the Undivided Church, and the 1928 Book of Common Prayer. We are determined to continue in the Catholic Faith, Apostolic Order, Orthodox Worship, and Evangelical Witness of the historic church, with its traditional liturgy and music. We are a movement that is bringing back the Old Ways of church, in hopes it sparks a revival of Liturgical worship.
Liturgical
Our liturgy and theology are expressed in the 1928 Book of Common Prayer. We use the King James Version of the Bible.
We stress fidelity to the prayer book as a matter of faith. After all most of what we say in the Prayer Book liturgy is scripture itself formed into prayer. That which is not quoted from scripture directly is most often taken from ancient prayers written by the great Saints of the early Church. Liturgy is both an expression of and teacher of faith. Liturgy is participatory, dynamic and relational. When we participate in liturgy, we encounter God.
The Prayer Book gives the faithful access to the liturgy in one concise volume that is written in the language of the people. One of the major functions of liturgy is to form people in the faith. By using a common prayer book the faithful themselves participate in the prayers and the worship so as to be incorporated into the mystery of God’s self-revelation in Word and Sacrament
True Biblical worship is God-centered not man-centered. We come as one body to hear, respond, and sing to our God in union together, giving all our attention to him alone with reverence and awe (Hebrews 12: 28 -29). The role of the minister in Anglican-Catholic worship is not that of a celebrity speaker, but as one who has been called to bring and give voice to the Word of God. His words are authoritative only insofar as they conform to the Word of God. He wears robes and vestments not because he is special but as an act of humility because his individuality (taste in dress or social class) is not the focus —the content of his words, namely the Gospel and person of Christ alone, is the focus.
Anglican-Catholic
We are not Roman Catholic. However, we are unapologetically and consistently catholic. We embrace the sacramental and liturgical life of the historic Catholic and Apostolic Church. This church upholds the creeds, sacraments, and historic episcopate in apostolic succession of the Church Catholic.
We desire to receive the faith taught by Christ, revealed in the Scriptures, handed down from the first apostles, and embraced by the church for 2,000 years. With Christians everywhere, we affirm our faith as summarized in the two historic creeds: the Apostles’ Creed and the Nicene Creed. These creeds summarize the witness to who God is and what he is doing and serve as our framework for interpreting the Scriptures.
We are independent of Rome and Canterbury, but dependent upon Jesus. Our allegiance is ONLY to God.
Creedal
The Creeds allow us to break bread together and sit in the discomfort of our differences while celebrating our common faith.
The word "Creed" comes from the Latin word credo, which means "I believe".
A good definition of Creedal Christianity is the shape and form of Christian belief summarized by the Creeds of the undivided church — the Apostles Creed, The Nicene Creed, etc.
Christians were guided by a “rule of faith,” certain tenets that all people were required to believe to be called “Christian.” In our postmodern, anything goes or self-identify as whatever you want to be; a “rule of faith” seems counterintuitive to our radically democratized souls.
And that’s the point. The Creeds bring us together, unite us under the banner of Christ, and guide us in life. The Creeds give a “rule of faith” that clarifies our identity, our tribe, our belonging, and our hope. And finally, the Creeds allow us to break bread together and sit in the discomfort of our differences while celebrating our common faith. That is what it means in my mind to be counted as one among many in the “holy catholic church.”
We are…
A Praying Church
We believe in a living God who answers prayer. Each Sunday God’s people gather to call upon God’s name. God’s people pray to the Father through Jesus Christ, our Lord in acknowledgment of the Holy Spirit. All liturgy is prayed ’through Jesus Christ, our Lord’, whom we worship, along with the Father and the Holy Spirit.
A Traditional Church
A traditional Anglican church of the One, Holy, and Apostolic Church instituted by Our Lord Jesus Christ. In our worship, we profess the orthodox Christian Faith by joyfully proclaiming the timeless Gospel of our Saviour and celebrating the seven Holy Sacraments as received in the canonical Holy Scriptures and the teachings of the Church Fathers. In our services we use the 1928 Book of Common Prayer which contains prayers and affirmations of Faith dating to the beginning of Christianity and the traditional Anglican liturgy. This liturgy has been continuously used since it was first published in 1549.
A Bible Believing Church
Each week, God’s people not only gather to call upon God’s name but also to hear God’s Word. The Holy Scripture is central to Anglicanism. Those who gather hear a reading from the Old Testament, the Psalms, the New Testament (Acts, Epistles, Revelation) and the Gospels. Just as Jesus lived by every word that proceeded out of the mouth of God, likewise his people are so to live (Matt. 4:1-3). If God is to be worshipped in Spirit and in truth, then knowledge is crucial (John 4:24) .
A Confessional Church
We confess as proved by most certain warrants of Holy Scripture the historic faith of the undivided church as declared in the Apostles and the Nicene creeds
A Gospel Believing Church
The gospel is the great burden of the Scriptures (2 Tim. 3:14-15). Article VI of the Thirty-nine Articles is eloquent on this point: ‘Holy Scripture containeth all things necessary to salvation: so that whatsoever is not read therein, nor may be proved thereby, is not to be required of any man, that it should be believed as an article of the Faith or be thought requisite or necessary to salvation. This expression of Christianity holds to the Biblical understanding of the plight of humankind before a holy God who in sovereign love has graciously provided a way back to himself through the sending and sacrifice of the Son, and the pouring out of the Holy Spirit (Rom.3:23; 5:1-5). Humanity needs more than a teacher and a dose of enlightenment. We need a Saviour who is also Lord of all (1 Tim. 2:5). God needs to do for us what we cannot in our fallen state do for ourselves. In other words, God shows grace (Eph. 2:8-10)
A Missional Church
We believe that no one is excluded from the love of God through Jesus Christ.
Our mission is founded on the expression of this good news. All of us are called to return to God’s embrace and to recognize God’s unconditional love.
We seek to preach and practice God’s words of love and grace for all. We are a mission focused church, reaching out to all and inviting them to experience the Grace of God.