The Faith
"Ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints." (St. Jude 1:3b)
Timeless, Vibrant, Beautiful
Are you searching for a Faith which does not change according to the "politics" or "ideology" of the day? Which does not follow in the fleet of short-lived, rudderless secular humanism? If you are searching for a timeless, vibrant, and beautiful Faith, welcome to St. George’s Anglican Church, A House of Prayer for All People. All that we do is based on the acceptance of Jesus Christ as the one, full, perfect and sufficient revelation attested by Holy Scriptures. We do not need another "prophet" or "teacher."
Reformed and Reforming
Our Anglican Faith, being one of the three great branches of Catholicism, along with Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy, is both a reformed and a reforming Faith. In England and elsewhere in the British Isles, Christianity is known to have existed almost "from the Beginning." The practice of the Christian religion and the work of the Church of Britain were continuous through succeeding centuries. Much of our distinctiveness was hammered out during the English Reformation of the 16th century. We hesitate to use the word "protestant" because it has lost its original meaning, and is associated with over 200 groups who have repudiated much of the Catholic Tradition. Perhaps the easiest way to remember the difference between the English Reformation and the Continental European Reformation is that "the baby was not thrown out with the bath water"! Catholic essentials such as the Creeds and the Sacraments were retained by the Church of England, although translated into the vernacular, so that any Anglican could participate in them with understanding. "Catholic" means "universal" -- that which has been consistently believed and practiced virtually everywhere from the earliest times.
Apostolic and Sacramental
The Anglican Faith is expressive of the eternal and Mystical Body of Christ, who commissioned His disciples to go into all the world to preach the Gospel. Now, almost 2000 years later, the Anglican Faith retains the essential characteristics of our Lord and Saviour "who changes not," and thus remains timelessly relevant. It omits nothing of the essentials - Biblical, Credal, Sacramental or of Apostolic Order. It has added nothing to the Faith once received by the saints. Our bishops have been consecrated in an unbroken line of Apostolic Succession that can be traced all the way back to one of the original Apostles, St. John.
Historic and Missionary Faith
The first service according to the Book of Common Prayer in America was led by the Chaplain of Sir Francis Drake’s flagship in 1579, in San Francisco Bay. The first baptism of an Anglo-Saxon in North America was that of Virginia Dare in 1587. The first permanent parish established in the English Colonies was at Jamestown, 1607, following the first recorded Holy Eucharist according to the Book of Common Prayer soon after the Jamestown colonists landed. The story of the spread of the Anglican Faith to Africa, India, Australia, China, Japan, etc. is a thrilling story too long to detail here! Within this Faith we find such great and diverse servants of Jesus Christ such as C.S. Lewis, John and Charles Wesley, Florence Nightingale, Charles Dickens, T.S. Elliot, Dorothy Sayers, Robert E. Lee, Bess Truman, and several U.S. Presidents. Two-thirds of the signers of the Declaration of Independence were Anglicans.