Evangelical: We believe the Good News of Jesus Christ to be the Gospel of Life and Salvation for the whole world and believe that all persons are called into a personal relationship with the Living God in Jesus Christ.  As a mission minded church family, we believe that we are commissioned and empowered by the Holy Spirit to make Jesus Christ, (through our witness of the Faith, our daily ministry, and through Word & Sacrament), a living and present reality in the lives of those whom we daily encounter.  Our faith, moral beliefs, worship, preaching and teaching are grounded in God’s holy Word.  As evangelical Christians we proclaim Jesus Christ to be the Way, the Truth and the Life and the only means of salvation for humankind.

Charismatic: We believe that Christian life is, by definition, new life in the Holy Spirit.  We fully understand our Faith and ministry as gifts from God and evidence of the Spirit’s power and presence among us.  It is the Holy Spirit who draws us into the life, ministry, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ; in whom we daily encounter the Living God.  Apart from the Holy Spirit, we can do nothing!

Protestant: We believe in the primacy and authority of the Holy Bible over and within the Church, emphasizing God’s Word in our worship, preaching and teaching.  We humbly submit ourselves to the transforming power of the Holy Scriptures as Divinely inspired, containing all things necessary to Salvation and believe it is not lawful for the Church to proclaim any thing that is contrary to God’s Word written, nor is it lawful for any one part of the Church to alter the Evangelical Faith or Catholic Order of the whole Church unilaterally.  Furthermore, we proclaim that Salvation is a free gift of God given by grace through faith in Jesus Christ.

Orthodox: We profess the Faith once delivered to the Saints.  We believe our Faith to be at one with the holy Faith of the undivided Catholic Church of the first Christian Millennium before the sad divisions within the Christian Church and believe our contemporary worship, in Word and Sacrament, to be in direct continuity with the Church of all ages and places.  The word ‘orthodox’ means right belief in God and right worship of God.  Therefore, we offer the authentic historic Faith and worship of the ancient Church for today’s world.

Catholic:  We have retained, proclaim and celebrate the same Holy Scriptures, Creeds, moral teachings, Sacraments (e.g., Holy Baptism & Holy Communion), and Orders of Ministry (those of Bishop, Priest, and Deacon) as that of the undivided Catholic Church of the first Christian Millennium.  The word ‘Catholic’ [Greek, katholikos] means Universal or Whole.  Therefore, we proclaim the whole doctrine, moral teaching, discipline and worship of the Universal Church as traditionally received within the Anglican Communion and articulated in the classical Anglican Formularies (the Thirty-Nine Articles, the 1662 Book of Common Prayer and Ordinal, and the Lambeth Quadrilateral).  Believing the Christian life to be sacramental, we proclaim and celebrate all seven of the traditional Sacraments/Sacramental Rites of the Catholic Church.

Apostolic:  By our faithfulness to the above, we seek to present the teaching, mission, worship and fellowship of the Apostolic Church to today’s world.

Our Goals:

To enable all persons in Faith, through Word and Sacrament, to become partakers in the life of God the Father, in Jesus Christ, through the Holy Spirit.

To proclaim, preach and teach, with authority and conviction, the Good News of Jesus Christ, the Gospel of Life and Salvation, leading persons into a living Faith and trust in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior.

To unite persons in Faith to the life, ministry, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ through the saving waters of Holy Baptism and to continually nourish this new life through Spirit-filled ministry, Christian fellowship, preaching, teaching and worship, and above all by partaking regularly of the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ in the Lord’s Supper.

Our Worship:

Is Biblically based (evangelical), Spirit-filled (charismatic) and fully Sacramental (catholic).

Believing that Jesus comes and speaks to us in Scripture, the Sermon and the Consecrated Bread and Wine, we are a church with a vital worship experience; we are people who believe the words spoken and sung, and we let it show by our enthusiasm. 

And this is the testimony:

that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.

I John 5:11

Our Statement of Faith

Holy Trinity Anglican Church in Marlborough, MA is a Christian faith community seeking to worship God in Spirit and in Truth, and to follow Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior.  As members of the Anglican Mission, a Common Cause Partner, we are committed to upholding orthodox Christianity.  Our faith and witness are biblically grounded: we uphold the traditional Anglican way in which we are guided by Scripture, Tradition and Reason, in that order.  We believe in the primacy of Scripture, affirming its authority and entire trustworthiness.  We believe that the Bible is the Word of God and therefore the primary source for doctrine, discipline and worship.

Our Christian faith is about a personal relationship.  We believe in and worship the personal, living, triune God (Father, Son and Holy Spirit) who pours divine life and love into our hearts.  Just as the power of the Holy Spirit brought the Good News alive for the original disciples, so the Spirit transforms us individually and corporately through a personal revelation of the truth of Jesus Christ.  We therefore value our personal experience of the indwelling Spirit of Jesus Christ molding and changing us.

Because God has poured his love into our hearts, we desire to be bearers of the Good News to others.  As we continue to respond to God’s transforming love, we desire to reach out and be a powerful living witness of God’s truth, saving love, kindness and mercy both inside the church, as well as outside the church through outreach and evangelism. 

These beliefs, commitments and desires are central to the faith and witness of our parish family.

Our Leadership

• Bishop
  • The Right Reverend Thaddeus Barnum (Bio)
• Bishop Emeritus
  • The Right Reverend Donald Harvey (News)
• Rector 
  • Father Michael McKinnon (Bio)
• Assisting Rector
  • Father Terrence McGillycuddy
• Officers
  • Senior Warden - Don Richards
  • Junior Warden - Diana Wood
  • Treasurer - Steve Walker
  • Assistant Treasurer - Charles Place
  • Clerk - Lynne Krebs
• Vestry
  • Monica Walker
  • Judy Richards
  • Dan Morse
  • Rhonda Cotton
  • June Hudnall
  • Sarah Nicholson

About our Bishops:

The Rt. Rev. Thaddeus Rockwell (Thad) Barnum serves as Missionary Bishop in the Anglican Mission in the Americas in Fairfield, Connecticut. Thad attributes much of his early training and ministry to nine years (1978-87) spent at St. Paul Episcopal Church, Darien, Connecticut under the leadership and anointed preaching of the Rev. Terry Fullam. During those days, his love for expository preaching began and continues to this day. In 1987, Thad was called to plant a new church in Alliquippa, Pennsylvania- a dying mill town. During his years as rector (1987-95), Prince of Peace Episcopal Church grew to over 300 with over 30 ministries active in all facets of parish life. During this time, Thad also served in many other capacities such as Field Education Mentor at Trinity School for Ministry, Chaplain to South American Missionary Society, Chaplain at the USAir Pittsburgh Airplane Crash site for Flight 427, and Chairman of the Mustard Seed Project which provides “Acts of Mission, Acts of Mercy in East and Central Africa.” In 1997, Thad and his wife Erilynne moved to Pawleys Island to serve as Directors of Missions at the North American Missionary Society and 1998, the two of them joined the All Saints staff. They relocated to Connecticut in order to help plant a new congregation (Apostles in Fairfield) and develop a North East Network for the Anglican Mission.

The Rt. Rev. Donald Harvey has been received into the Anglican Province of the Southern Cone under Primate Gregory Venables. The Southern Cone encompasses much of South America, from Tierra del Fuego in the south to Peru in the north. In becoming a bishop of the Southern Cone, Bishop Harvey has come out of retirement and is resuming full-time episcopal ministry. He will now be free to offer episcopal oversight to biblically faithful Canadian Anglicans who are distressed and feel they no longer have a home in the Anglican Church of Canada.

"By receiving Bishop Harvey upon his departure from the Anglican Church of Canada, the Province of the Southern Cone is responding to the ongoing crisis and brokenness in the Anglican Communion,” said The Most Revd Gregory Venables.  (from Kendall Harmon)