Section 1: Human Nature

1. We believe that every person is created in the image of God and is inherently blessed, bearing divine dignity, worth, and the capacity to reflect God's love in the world.

2. We believe that human beings are wonderfully created as a sacred, unified composite of body and soul, and that through God's redemptive work and the final resurrection, both our physical and spiritual aspects are destined for eternal life.

3. God gave us free agency and thus we are capable of either cooperating with God's grace to do profound good, or turning away from God to commit evil.

4. We trust that deeply personal decisions about our bodies are held in the sacred space between each person and God. We honor that faithful people may arrive at different, sincerely held convictions on these complex matters. Above all, we are committed to walking alongside one another with grace, offering compassionate spiritual support and love to anyone navigating difficult decisions.

Section 2: Nature of God

1. God the Father is a spiritual being and creator who is omniscience, omnipresent, and omnipotent.

2. God is full of Grace, Compassion, and Mercy.

3. God is love and nothing can ever separate us from the love of God.

4. The Holy Spirit is our guide to truth, expressing the omnipresence and will of the divine.

5. Jesus is the son of God. He came here to live among us, to share our human nature, and to reconcile us to God. He is fully human and fully divine.

6. We embrace the mystery of God as the Holy Trinity consisting of the Father, the Son (Jesus), and the Holy Spirit, but do not seek to explain it beyond the historic Creeds.

Section 3: Nature of Love

1. We believe in the supreme commandments of Jesus to love God and to love others as ourselves. 

2. The Ten Commandments define our responsibilities to God and each other.

3. We believe that fully loving others begins with loving ourselves. By recognizing our own God-given worth, we are better able to appreciate the inherent value in everyone else; learning to see each other through God's eyes.

4. We believe that how much we love is more important than how much we sin.

5. we believe in the sacred worth and God-given dignity of every person, we strive to be a church where all are genuinely welcomed and loved. We also recognize that true hospitality requires a safe sanctuary; out of deep care for our flock, we are committed to maintaining protective boundaries to ensure our community is safeguarded from those who would cause harm.

6. Our faith teaches us to live a life of compassion and love for others through our words and deeds.

Section 4: Nature of Sin

1. Sin is missing the mark of God's intentions and loving desires for how we are meant to live and flourish.

2.We also recognize that because God entrusted the world with genuine freedom, both the realities of chance and our own human choices can cause suffering and brokenness.

3. Through God's infinite mercy, revealed in Jesus Christ, we are continually invited into repentance, healing, and reconciliation. Whenever we turn toward God, we are met with grace, forgiven, and restored to right relationship with the Divine and with one another.

Section 5: Fruits and Gifts of the Spirit

1. We believe that humankind is created in love, for love, to love, and, through the Holy Spirit, we are given both gifts and fruits for the good of the world — gifts that equip the Church for faithful witness, and fruits that shape our lives in wisdom, joy, peace, and Christlike ethics.

Section 6: God’s Creation

1. We believe that creation is a profound gift born of God’s love, originally designed and declared good for its divine purpose.

2. We believe that God has entrusted humanity with the sacred vocation of stewardship. Therefore, we are called to responsibly tend to the natural world, actively working to cultivate ecological flourishing and preserve the health of the earth's ecosystems as an act of love for our Creator and his creation.

Section 7: Salvation 

1. Through Jesus’ suffering, death, resurrection, and ascension, God has already acted decisively. By His grace and our faith, we are welcomed into eternal life.

2. Jesus came to show us how to live. Through our ongoing faith journeys in Christ, we are continually being saved and transformed into our true selves as God’s beloved.

3. As the Book of James reminds us, genuine belief must be lived out. We follow through on our faith by partnering with God’s grace through acts of love, compassion, and justice in the world.

The Sacraments: We believe in the Christly sacraments of baptism and communion and the five apostolic sacraments of Confirmation, Reconciliation, Marriage, Holy Orders, and Anointing of the sick. We believe all sacraments impart Grace to us. We also recognize and respect different points of view concerning the sacraments.

Section 8: Communion

1. We believe the communion is a means of God bestowing Grace upon us in a direct way.

2. We believe in the mystery of Jesus’ presence in the eucharist/communion, but we respect differences in theological views on communion as a matter of individual conscience.

3. We believe all baptized Christians should be allowed to receive communion without exception. 

Section 9: Baptism and Confirmation

1. We believe all means of baptism are acceptable: as an infant, as a child, or as an adult by full immersion, pouring, or sprinkling. As long as the form, matter, and intent are present it is valid.

2. For infant baptisms, confirmation is performed once they attain an age of reason.

3. Adult baptism is an act of obedience in following the example of Christ in recognition of our conversion to the faith.

4. We believe that baptism is the mystical washing away of sins and recognition of our rebirth into a new path in life.

Section 10: Marriage

1.  A sacramental marriage is one in which both individuals intend for a Christ-centric marriage. Marriages that are arranged, entered into by coercion or for ulterior motives are not legitimate sacramental marriages.

2. Marriage is between two consenting adults. Clergy may refer a wedding to other clergy if it violates their personal conscience. A parish or ministry may decide if they are affirming by their clergy, vestry, & parishioners.

3. We believe that God wishes for us to have happy, healthy, and monogamous relationships.

4. We believe that God does not wish for humans to be miserable but to live filled with joy and happiness and that sometimes marriages can’t be reconciled. For example: abuse and infidelity. In such cases, divorce or annulment is permitted.

Section 11: Holy Orders:

1. One reason Jesus bestowed the Holy Spirit upon His disciples was to empower them to faithfully pass on the ministry of the Church through Apostolic Succession.

2. We believe that anyone who feels called to ministry should explore if it is right for them and not be restricted by their gender, sexual orientation, marital status, age, etc.

3. Clergy are not required to be celibate as they were not required in the early church. We believe from a pastoral perspective that having a family makes it easier to relate to the everyday struggles of the flock. We will; however, honor and respect those who feel called to a life of celibacy and have that spiritual gift.

4. As clergy, we do not believe it is our place to judge others or to act as gatekeepers for the Kingdom of God. We will welcome and accept all who seek God.

Section 12: Anointing of the Sick

1. We believe grace is imparted upon those who receive the anointing.

2. We believe that where two or more are gathered God is present and that healing may occur when we call upon God together.

3. While we faithfully pray for God’s healing, we affirm that God frequently works restoration through the skill of physicians and proper medical care.

Section 13: Reconciliation

1. We offer the sacramental Rite of Reconciliation (private confession) as a deeply healing and pastoral tool for those who are burdened by guilt. However, in the classic Anglican tradition, we believe this rite is a supportive option rather than a strict necessity to experience God’s full and complete absolution; "all may, some should, none must."

2. We believe that receiving the profound gift of forgiveness from God and from one another powerfully heals our brokenness, just as extending forgiveness to others is an act of self-love that frees us from the weight of the harm they have caused.

Section 14: Scripture

1. We believe the Bible is the inspired Word of God, recorded by human authors under divine guidance, with the ultimate purpose of drawing us into a deeper relationship with our Creator.

2. We affirm that Holy Scripture contains all things necessary for salvation, providing a faithful and trustworthy guide to eternal life.

3. Scripture should be interpreted through the clarifying lens of Christ’s life, teachings, death, and resurrection.

Section 15: Tradition

1. We use the Book of Common Prayer as the tradition that guides our services and unites Anglicans in a common style of worship. Any Anglican Book of Common Prayer is acceptable for use in public services. Any liturgy is permissible for personal use.

2. We uphold the tradition of the Apostles, Nicene, and Athanasian Creeds. 

3. The Christ's Creed: A Confession. This was created as an expression of our church's distinctive focus on our spiritual aspects and our relationship with God and each other. It is not intended to be a replacement of existing creeds.

4. We accept the three great streams of Christianity: catholic, with an emphasis on Creeds, Sacraments, Liturgy, and Apostolic Succession; Protestant, with an emphasis on Reformed Confessions, scriptural authority, personal conversion, and gospel proclamation; and Charismatic, with an emphasis on mysticism and the active work of the Holy Spirit in the world today. We believe in the importance of honoring and respecting each other's differences, while uniting together around the common cause of making disciples of all nations. 

Section 16: Reason

1. We seek to understand a sacred text by using the most accurate and oldest translations and by examining its original context.

2. The Bible consists of  books of multiple genres written over an extended period of time each with its own set of guidelines for exegesis (interpretation) and hermeneutics (application). The use of reason is essential to this process. As an example, we believe you can’t take all things in the bible literally, because some stories are meant to teach us a larger truth rather than a literal truth.

Section 17: Ecumenism

1. We will work together with other Christian denominations for the betterment of society and the world.

2. We respect differences in theological views as a matter of individual conscience.