Additional Information on Our History, Mission & Vision

  We held our first worship service in January 1990 in a parishioner’s home. Throughout the 1990s, we began to grow and attract new followers who joined the founding families to form a small yet dedicated group of Anglicans who remained faithful and steadfast to our apostolic tradition and foundational beliefs. We celebrated the Mass in parishioner’s homes, then grew into rental space in other churches. 

Stepping out in faith, the members of St. George’s called their first Rector, Fr. Gordon Hines, in July of 1998 to serve as full-time priest. Blessed with growth in membership, the church began meeting at McMillan Elementary School in 1999. Sunday School and Bible Study began being offered and the church experienced yet further growth, leading to the purchase of property and construction of the first phase of its church building program. 

Phase one construction was completed, with the first Mass being offered in the new building on September 25, 2001. Since then, the church has continued to experience growth in members and ministries, sharing the life and love of Christ to others. We are also self-sustaining.  

  St. George’s strives to carry out this vision and message to a spiritually starving world. This vision and message comes from our LORD and Savior Jesus Christ, and it remains timeless and unchanging even as contemporary Americans become increasingly secularized. People may have lost touch with the Christian Faith or any understanding of God, but we teach the truth of God’s character, His Son’s ultimate sacrifice on the cross, and the gift of the Holy Ghost. 

We believe that by sharing the true vision of our Christian history and by increasing the awareness and relevance of God as He has revealed Himself in history, people will find solace and rest. 

To know God is to know ourselves. To trust God is to find freedom from all the anxieties of this world and look forward to the eternal life to come.

St George’s Anglican Church

Anglican Church Women – Saint Ann’s Guild 

(ACW)

Through acts of Christian charity, ACW helps support the mission of the Church in the Parish, Diocese and Province. Our volunteers experience the opportunity to grow as individuals and as a member of our group. 

Each member of the ACW actually becomes a public relations herald of the parish because he represents our church to the community. 

Our group is not only purposeful, it’s really a lot of fun!

Throughout the year, our ACW plans the most wonderful projects and activities. Some of the most popular have been an evening of summer theater, a golf outing, an Oktoberfest celebration, a field trip to a nearby winery which included lunch, the yard sale, Mardi Gras night, a bake sale and cake auction, the giant Easter Basket raffle and our annual St. George’s Day Celebration and Brunch.

In addition, there is the In-Parish Out-Reach programs that involves sending cards and visiting the sick and elderly in the parish, supporting our youth group, nursery and church school. 

The ACW Scholarship Program is designed to distribute monies to deserving students for scholarships or grants and there is also a fund to support summer youth camp.

In the Anglican Tradition, we are...  

Trinitarian – Anglicans believe that  there is One God who exists eternally in three persons—Father, Son, and  Holy Spirit. Furthermore, we believe that Jesus Christ is completely God  and is also completely human. If a religious group does not teach these  two doctrines, we do not recognize them as Christian.

Primacy of Scripture – Anglican churches hold that Old and New Testaments together are the  Word of God and contain all things necessary for salvation. We believe  that the Bible holds authority in questions of God and humanity over all  other traditions, arguments, decisions, and values.

Salvation – Anglicans  believe that every human being on earth is in need of the saving help of  Jesus Christ. We believe that salvation is in Christ alone, by grace  alone, through faith alone.

Word and Sacrament – Anglicans believe  that a church is a community that gathers around the proclamation of the  Word of God and the celebration of the sacraments of Christ. We believe  in preaching the whole of the Gospel. We teach that the sacraments are  external signs of interior grace, signs commanded by Christ for the  building up of his church.

Common Life – We believe  that God has called us to live our lives together in Christ. We engage  in liturgical disciplines of prayer, worship, and repentance. Anglicans  embrace a full life of seasons and hours, fasts and feasts. We are  called to lives that are both ordered and creative.

Mission – Anglicans have  a mission to the world. This mission is one of both proclaiming the  Gospel and living it out. This means that we believe in starting new  churches, evangelizing our neighbors, ministering to the poor, and  caring for the world.

Apostolic Succession –  The church preserves and protects the Gospel through our bishops. They  are the successors of the Apostles through heritage, teaching, and  character. Our bishops were consecrated by other bishops, who were  consecrated by other bishops, all the way back to the Apostles. They  have the responsibility of guarding the faith that has been delivered to  us, and of serving those whom God has put under their care.

Semper Reformanda – Anglicans are never finished. We are, as the Latin phrase above puts it,  “always reforming.” Although we are stabilized by tradition, we are  nevertheless looking for ways to better proclaim the Gospel in our own  day.

Via Media – This Latin term means “the middle way.” The Anglican  Way lives at the center rather than the extremes. In a time that was quite contentious, Anglicanism intentionally charted a route between the extremes of Roman Catholicism and the overreaction of some of the Protestant Reformation.