About Us

Idaho Springs Anglican Fellowship exists to glorify God and make disciples by nurturing a community in which every person has the opportunity to grow in intimacy with Jesus Christ and with others. We are a church plant of Emmaus Anglican Church in Castle Rock, CO.

Our Mission

Jesus calls us to “worship the Father in Spirit and truth” (John 4:23). While our everyday lives are a constant act of worship (Romans 12:1), we have an innate need to come together in corporate worship (Hebrews 10:25). The history of worship in the Anglican tradition points to Three Streams (sacramental, charismatic and evangelistic) in one river of Christianity. In corporate worship we experience the presence of God that joins us to the worship before the throne of grace in the heavenly realm (Revelation 4). We are revived and transformed by the Holy Spirit. We experience His gifts to do the same things Jesus did, thereby making the Kingdom of God something we experience in worship.

We are part of the community and for the community God has placed us in. Our call is to partner with the community to expand the life of Jesus Christ into the community. We do this by serving in both tangible and spiritual ways, and we strive to make those spiritual and tangible ways one. This means providing for those in need in the community—through financial assistance and resources in terms of people, time and materials. Among the ways we do this are by partnering with our local community outreach, Loaves & Fishes Feeding Ministry. We also plan to actively volunteer in the ECHO shelter on a regular basis. As we form relationships with the families and staff, we hope to grow in love and discernment to better understand how we can more fully serve in Christ’s image, in the specific ways we hear Him call us to minister and further partner in the community. The opportunities are too many to name here. Suffice it to say we are open to our Lord’s leading in how to more specifically share and grow in the knowledge and love of God in Jesus Christ.

The apostle Paul tells us in Romans 12:1–2 (Message): "So here's what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don't become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You'll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you." Amen! Inspired by this, we pray that we become Biblical Christians who fully reflect the light of Christ in the world in our “everyday, ordinary” lives. We are part of God's transformative love, working for His Kingdom and overwhelming the darkness in the world, one life at a time and whole communities at a time, connected with His universal Church across time. We do this through various discipleship programs that incorporate Bible teaching, prayerful formation, orthodox theology, transformational healing and practical missional service in an intergenerational setting, so we form Biblically-based Anglicans who are empowered to live Christ-centered lives.

Affiliation

Idaho Springs Anglican Fellowship is a mission fellowship within the Diocese of the Southwest in the Anglican Church in North America.

ANGLICAN FELLOWSHIP

Idaho Springs

About Us

Our Mission

Affiliation

ANGLICAN FELLOWSHIP

Idaho Springs