What We Believe
We believe and confess Jesus Christ to be the Way, the Truth, and the Life, and that no one comes to the Father but by Him, and are fervent in our proclamation of this Gospel.
We believe in the transformative power of the Holy Spirit working within the community of believers.
We are part of the historic Anglican tradition, maintaining the office of Bishop, Priest, and Deacon.
We celebrate the Sacraments of Baptism and the Eucharist as commanded by Christ.
We uphold the Apostles' and Nicene Creeds as sufficient statements of the Christian faith.
We believe in the authority of Holy Scripture as the Word of God containing all things necessary for salvation.
Biblical, Liturgical, Spirit-filled
Rooted in Scripture
We consider the Bible to be the primary and supreme authoritative way in which God speaks to us. We believe that the Holy Spirit inspired the entire process by which the Scriptures came to be written, so that what we have in our hands is the Word of God and his principal means of revealing his will to us. With the Thirty-Nine Articles we confess that "Holy Scripture containeth all things necessary to salvation: so that whatsoever is not read therein, nor may be proved thereby, is not to be required of any man, that it should be believed as an article of the Faith" (Article VI).
Nourished by the Sacraments
Our Sunday morning worship follows the Book of Common Prayer, a pattern of prayer whose shape reaches back over 1500 years. The liturgy draws us into confession, thanksgiving, praise, petition, intercession, and adoration. The Creed sets before us the Holy Trinity, our namesake; confession calls us to reckon with our sin and look to Christ alone for our salvation; the eucharistic prayer proclaims the new covenant made in the blood of Christ. In Holy Communion we feed upon our Lord by faith - for as the Articles teach, "the mean whereby the Body of Christ is received and eaten in the Supper is Faith" (Article XXVIII). Hymns and songs give us words and music for engaging God in his many aspects, and the lectionary of three readings each Sunday carries us across the whole sweep of Scripture, so that we sit under all of God's Word and not only the parts we would have chosen.
Alive in Jesus Christ
The Holy Spirit is alive and at work in all who know Christ and seek to follow him as Lord and God. We have seen his gifts among us, as he binds us to Christ and His Word, and molds us into Christ's image. Nothing in the Christian life begins with us: as the Articles put it, "we have no power to do good works pleasant and acceptable to God, without the grace of God by Christ preventing [going before] us, that we may have a good will, and working with us, when we have that good will" (Article X). Without his work, the Christian faith is a set of beliefs that remain true but leave the believer largely unchanged. With him at work in our hearts, there is an aliveness, a lively faith, from God to his people.
Anglican Distinctives
We are Reformed in our distinctives, confessing with the Thirty-Nine Articles that we are saved by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone.
We are Catholic, holding the faith once delivered to the saints and confessed in the ancient creeds.
Church of the Holy Trinity is a parish within the Anglican
Diocese of the Living Word (ADLW), which itself is a diocese
within the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA). This means that the Thirty-nine Articles of Religion and the 1662 Book of Common Prayer, being read according to their plain and historical sense. are our standards for doctrine and worship. Furthermore, we receive and affirm the Global Anglican Communion (GAC) Statement and the Jerusalem Declaration of 2008.
Our Leadership
Reverend Canon Ife Ojetayo
Rector
Rt. Reverand Julian Dobbs
Diocesan Bishop
Vestry
Our parish is governed by an elected lay vestry, consisting of two wardens plus other vestry members.
They work to maintain the parish's finances and support the rector in spiritual matters.
The current Vestry Members are:
Mr. Jim Fuller (Warden)
Mr. Bryan McGraw (Warden)
Mr. Ed Clements
Mr. Anthony Rosa
Mr. Ken Waldby
Mr. Paul Norris