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Skip Navigation Links>About St. Matt's & Services>What we believe>Our Beliefs

Our Beliefs

     St. Matthew's Anglican Church is a part of the Anglican Mission, a missionary movement of Rwanda committed to reaching the unchurched in North America. We invite you to learn about us and visit so you can experience our life and mission.
     The Anglican Mission exists to glorify God by building an alliance of congregations in North America committed to gathering, planting and serving dynamic churches in the Anglican tradition.

Archbishop Emmanual Kolini

Provence of Rwanda   

OUArch Bishop Emmanual Kolini, Provence of RwandaR PURPOSE

Sharing the peace and good news of Jesus with the world.
To bring glory to God by Being a Great commission and great commandment presents in the community.

OUR CALL
     Our goal is reaching the 130 million un-churched in the U.S. and some 20 million in Canada with the transforming reality of Jesus Christ.

OUR MISSION      We are committed to evangelism through church planting, fulfilling Christ’s Great Commandment and Great Commission .


“ Jesus replied: 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself’” (Matthew 22:37-38).


“ Then Jesus came to them and said, ‘All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age’" (Matthew 28:18-20).


OUR MINISTRY

  • Praying
  • Applying the truth of Scripture to our daily lives

  • Seeking and sharing the transforming love of Jesus Christ

  • Planting new congregations

  • Strengthening churches to impact culture

  • Empowering and equipping clergy and lay ministers

  • Fueling passion for service

  • Building community through relationships

  • Remaining accountable

  • Making disciples who make disciples

 Leadership development

     We believe that every Christian is created and gifted for ministry as described in Scripture (Romans 12 and 1 Corinthians chapter 12 -13), and we take seriously the call in Ephesians to “prepare God’s people for works of service.” In order to fulfill that mandate, the Anglican Mission intentionally seeks to equip, empower and release the faithful to use their spiritual gifts to glorify God and build up the Body of Christ. The Anglican Mission’s goal is to identify and develop ordained and lay leaders who are passionately committed to Christ and display an authentic faith, Godly character and a servant’s heart. Our leadership development is centered on discipleship and is geared toward individual clergy and laity as well as congregations with a goal of enhancing and providing resources for those within the Anglican Mission. 

 


 

 OUR WORSHIP IS ANCIENT...FUTURE     Our approach to worship is rooted in traditions of the earliest Christian churches but often is colored with contemporary and fresh expressions that engage the senses, connecting with people’s hearts and minds. This unique blend of the ancient and future provides a means of capturing the imagination of a society immersed in images of the media and Internet. Our churches offer a wide variety and diversity in worship expressions while upholding the Biblical and historic essentials of Christian faith.

 


 

 POWER OF SACRAMENTS
     We celebrate the Sacraments of Baptism and the Lord’s Supper (Holy Eucharist) as commanded by Jesus.

 


 

THE HISTORIC EPISCOPATE
     We uphold the historic order of Bishops in the administration of the church’s life and mission.

      The Anglican Mission’s annual Winter Conference offers participants a wide array of opportunities to develop, expand and strengthen ministry on the local and national levels to impact the world for Christ. Our leadership development is centered on discipleship and is geared toward individual clergy and laity as well as congregations with a goal of enhancing and providing resources for those within the Anglican Mission.

     In response to our faith, the Anglican Mission seeks to serve people in all walks of life through evangelistic initiatives that focus primarily on church planting. Since 2000, the Anglican Mission has added on average one congregation every three weeks, and we are constantly expanding our tent to sponsor new Mission Initiatives such as the Youth Ministry Initiative, Asian Initiative, Ministry Among Hispanics and Worship Initiative.   

     The Anglican Mission encourages excellence in Children's Ministry through creative networking of children's ministers who share proven methods of evangelism and discipleship.  In addition, Anglican Mission congregations have developed a wide variety of Faith in Action outreach projects in their local communities and beyond, including domestic and foreign missions projects.

     Following the Biblical model, the Anglican Mission places a high value on relationships and community. God calls us into an intimate, personal relationship with Him through Christ and formed the Church to be His body in the world. The Church, then, is centered on relationships within the community of faith, constantly expanding that community by leading others into a saving relationship with Jesus Christ. The Christian community comes together to be spiritually nurtured and to grow in knowledge and love of God during worship. Through worship, we encounter and experience the Living God who is present in and through us as we sing, pray, learn and share in the bread and wine of Holy Eucharist and the water of Baptism. Worship allows us to connect in a tangible way with the Lord and each other, which prepares, empowers and equips us to go forth into our mission field – the world.

 

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