About Our Church
"...to restore all people to unity with God and each other in Christ."The Episcopal Church (TEC) is a member church of the worldwide Anglican Communion and is based in the United States with additional dioceses elsewhere. It is a mainline Christian denomination divided into nine provinces. The Episcopal Church describes itself as “Protestant, yet Catholic”
Our Beliefs & Values
We Episcopalians believe in a loving, liberating, and life-giving God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. As constituent members of the Anglican Communion in the United States, we are descendants of and partners with the Church of England and the Scottish Episcopal Church, and are part of the third largest group of Christians in the world.
We believe in following the teachings of Jesus Christ, whose life, death, and resurrection saved the world.
We have a legacy of inclusion, aspiring to tell and exemplify God’s love for every human being; women and men serve as bishops, priests, and deacons in our church. Laypeople and clergy cooperate as leaders at all levels of our church. Leadership is a gift from God, and can be expressed by all people in our church, regardless of sexual identity or orientation.
We believe that God loves you – no exceptions.
For the Episcopal Church, the Jesus Movement calls us to focus on three specific Priorities:
Evangelism
Listen for Jesus’ movement in our lives and in the world. Give thanks. Proclaim and celebrate it! Invite the Spirit to do the rest.
Reconciliation
Embody the loving, liberating, life-giving way of Jesus with each other.
Creation Care
Encounter and honor the face of God in creation.
“We seek every day to love God with our whole heart, mind and soul, and to love our neighbors as ourselves.”