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Our Statement of
Faith
Our
Goals
Our
Leadership
As Anglican Christians we
are:
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)
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