The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Ghost, be with us all evermore.
We are all in this together. We were called here. We are becoming a family of believers.
We come with different church backgrounds, different life experiences, different views, hopes and worries. Drawn by the liturgy, perhaps, or a love of hymns, the rhythm of the church year or Anglican traditions, we find that our church is all of that, and more.
Just as we transform a home into a church, the Holy Spirit is transforming us. It isn’t pews and candles and icons that make it holy, but the intentional gathering of people who desire to live their faith. After all, a church is made of "living stones".
We show up.
In fact, Holy Angels is not a neighborhood church; we come from as far away as Corvallis, McMinnville, Wilsonville and Hillsboro. Because we won’t run into each other around town during the week, we linger each Sunday to share a meal and to get to know each other. As a result we are better able to comfort and help each other, to encourage each other and urge each other on to good works.
Anglican Province of America
Holy Angels is a parish in the Diocese of Central and Western States of the Anglican Province of America. Begun in the late sixties, and initially formed as the American Episcopal Church, the founders’ goal was to maintain and preserve historic Anglican traditions for future generations. Continuing those traditions, they have stayed with the 1928 prayer book, said no to ordaining women to the priesthood and yes to the biblical understanding of marriage.