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To see our scheduled events--including special worship services for holy days--just click on the Event Calendar icon below:
Candlemas Service,
Feb. 2nd, 7:00 pm
(it's not just Groundhog Day!)
Feb. 2nd, 7:00 pm
(it's not just Groundhog Day!)
Trinity Anglican Church is a new and growing congregation in Erie, Pennsylvania (our building is in the Belle Valley section of Millcreek Township). We are an affiliate of the Anglican Mission (theAM) and a ministry partner of the Anglican Church in North America. We are under the ecclesiastical oversight of Bishop Doc Loomis.
We have ministries for adults, youth, and children. Click HERE for Sunday service location and time.
Our Worship
For us, worship is a drama in which we reenact God's saving deeds in the person of Jesus Christ. We worship with all five senses, with our bodies and our spirits, joining the worship that is in heaven (Rev. 4:1-11; 8:1-5).
Although we are open to spontaneity as the Spirit leads, we do follow a liturgy, and it expresses the faith of the Church. It is modeled after the ancient Jewish synagogue services of the Word and also the Passover and Sabbath family services of the Table. If you have any questions about anything said or done in our worship, our priest would love to talk with you.
As a historically-rooted church, Trinity Anglican upholds the catholic creeds, the dogmatic definitions of the General Councils of the undivided Church, and the traditional Anglican formularies. In today's religious climate, we would like to affirm the following:
The Holy Scriptures are the Word of God. They hold a prominent and authoritative role in the life of the church. (2 Timothy 3:16-17; Hebrews 4:12).
Jesus Christ is Lord. He is God's plan for humankind to be reconciled with God (John 14:6; 2 Corinthians 5:19).
Salvation is God's free gift by grace through faith. God calls everyone to repent of their sin and, by his grace, to walk in newness of life, through the life, death, resurrection, and ascension of Christ (Ephesians 2:8-9; Romans 6:4; I John 1:9 1 Corinthians 15:1-8).
God knows what is best for his children.
While we recognize that we live in a pluralistic society, we contend
that the only way to keep one's way pure is to guard it according to
God's Word (Psalm 119:9; Proverbs 14:12).
God inhabits the praise of his people. Through the Holy Spirit, God is truly among us as we worship him in spirit and in truth (Matthew 18:20; John 4:24).
For us, worship is a drama in which we reenact God's saving deeds in the person of Jesus Christ. We worship with all five senses, with our bodies and our spirits, joining the worship that is in heaven (Rev. 4:1-11; 8:1-5).
Although we are open to spontaneity as the Spirit leads, we do follow a liturgy, and it expresses the faith of the Church. It is modeled after the ancient Jewish synagogue services of the Word and also the Passover and Sabbath family services of the Table. If you have any questions about anything said or done in our worship, our priest would love to talk with you.
As a historically-rooted church, Trinity Anglican upholds the catholic creeds, the dogmatic definitions of the General Councils of the undivided Church, and the traditional Anglican formularies. In today's religious climate, we would like to affirm the following:
A Series of Open Letters Reflecting on the Barna Group Report: "Six Reasons Young Christians Leave Church"
updated January 21, 2012!
updated January 21, 2012!
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(ignore the date on the photo--Bad digital camera!)
Greeting Cards for Max Low!
Max is a young man struggling with cancer: a family in our parish heard about this project and will be supporting it--Max wants to receive one million greeting/holiday cards. He has received over 300,000! Send cards to the following address:
Mighty Max Low
P.O. Box 111
Neola, IA 51559
(Fr. William followed up on this story--it IS legit!)
P.O. Box 111
Neola, IA 51559
(Fr. William followed up on this story--it IS legit!)
Follow this link for Our Pastor's latest Reflection in the Erie Times-News
Our First Vacation Bible School!
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Trinity Anglican Church is honored to be currently featured on the following online ministries:
Anglican1000
Heart of North America Network
Also--see our listing on ChurchAngel.com
An orthodox Anglican Fellowship. With two thousand years of Christianity behind us, our faith and spirituality have been formed by various epochs and movements, notably: the teachings of the Undivided Church (the 'Patristic Era'), the English Reformation of the Sixteenth Century, the 'Caroline Divinity' of the Seventeenth Century, the Evangelical Revival of the Eighteenth Century, and also the the Oxford Movement of the Nineteenth Century--all of these influences enable us to be a church for the Twenty-First century.
In facing the challenges of today, we endorse the Jerusalem Declaration, the Solemn Declaration of Principles of the Anglican Mission in the Americas, as well as the Constitution of the Anglican Church in North America.
An Ancient-Future Fellowship. We bear witness today to the ancient faith "once for all delivered to the saints (Jude 3)" and guarded by ancient ecumenical consensus. When, in our worship, we reenact God's saving deeds, God truly comes among us and brings us into a deeper walk with him and each other, empowering us to be his servants in this world. Our goal is to be authentic. The best way for us to bring Christian authenticity into the contemporary world in a meaningful way is through the Ancient-Future model of ministry. In an age that challenges all things Christian, we see God at work among us through form and spontaneity, through Word and Sacrament, through traditional hymns and today's praise music, through liturgical trappings and simplicity.
A 'Three-Streams' Fellowship. We consider the Three Streams of orthodox Anglicanism--Evangelical, Anglo-Catholic, and Spirit-Filled--as complementary. Our Fellowship is comprised of Christians who bring various gifts and skills from these three streams and our worship and ministry are enriched by them.
Click HERE for Sunday service location and time.
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