Why do you meet at 2:30PM?

We don’t have our own building, and Valparaiso University has generously allowed us to use their chapel in the afternoons. While this poses some challenges, it also has a lot of benefits — one of them is that our lower expenses means that we are free to dedicate more resources to ministry instead of facilities.

Where do I Park for church? How far is the walk?

We recommend parking in Lot 15 (near the chapel if you enter from the North) or in the visitor’s parking next to the South entrance off of 30. Both are about a 100 yard walk from the chapel.

The only parking that’s immediately next to the entrance of the chapel is handicap parking. If you need access to closer parking, the church has a limited number of passes that will let you park in that lot, so please let us know.

What’s Liturgy? Am I going to be lost at your church?

Anglican worship is liturgical, which means that it’s structured and participatory. For example: every week, we read the Bible out loud during church. In fact, we’ll almost always read from the Old Testament, the Psalms, the New Testament, and one of the four Gospels. If you come regularly, you’ll hear (almost) the whole Bible every three years.

As far as participation: everyone speaks and sings and prays during church, not just the leaders. Because the service is structured, we have a printed booklet with prayers and responses for the whole congregation to use in unison, and we also have times reserved in the service for spontaneous prayer, both silent and spoken.

These patterns can feel strange at first. That’s okay! We don’t do this because we love liturgy for its own sake, but because these patterns help us to worship God together and well, and they shape us — by teaching us how to pray, by filling our mouths with God’s words, and by inviting our hearts, bodies, and imaginations into the presence of God along with our minds.

Communion every week?

Yes. We take seriously the “breaking of bread and the prayers” (Acts 2) as a pattern of Christian life together, and we believe that the Lord’s Supper is an “effectual sign of grace”— which is to say that this meal truly blesses us and strengthens our faith as Jesus feeds us with his body and blood.

We welcome all baptized Christians to communion.

What do you believe about Baptism?

We recognize and celebrate all Christian baptisms, and we baptize all who are presented for baptism in faith — infants and adults. This is foreign for many American Christians, but it’s not because we don’t prioritize personal faith — it’s that we believe baptism is much more about what God is doing than about what we are doing. It is absolutely vital that every person come to a place of personal trust in Jesus, and we baptize babies because of that. Still have questions? Let’s talk about it together!

What do you believe about [ ] ?

On primary issues, Anglicans are about as middle-of-the-road as it’s possible to be. We submit ourselves to Holy Scripture as our inspired authority in all matters of faith and doctrine. We confess the historic creeds of the church. And we seek to walk in obedience to Jesus as the rightful King and glorious Savior of humanity.

On secondary issues, we are quite diverse, and we think that’s a great picture of the gospel. We strive to remain in fellowship and to love one another in obedience to Jesus, even (and especially!) when we disagree. That said, you can find a good overview of the historical, central line of Anglican thought in the Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion and a shorter, more recent statement of our key beliefs in The Jerusalem Declaration of 2008.