About Us

Beliefs

SIMPLY CHRISTIAN

We are first and primarily Christians. We believe that 2,000 years ago, Jesus Christ—the Son of God—died on a Roman cross just outside the walls of Jerusalem. Three days later he rose from the dead in triumph to bring life to the world.

New life, joy, and hope are offered to those who say yes to Jesus. In him, God heals what is broken in our relationships: with him, with one another, with creation, and even within ourselves.

BIBLICAL truth

We joyfully receive “the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints” (Jude 1:3), as it has been given to us in the Bible and expressed in the historic creeds of the church.

  • The Bible is our guide and authority. The Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments are God’s inspired revelation of himself and are entirely trustworthy and true. We believe the scriptures contains everything we need for life and salvation.

  • With Christians everywhere, we affirm our belief in historic Christianity as stated in the creeds of the ancient church. We confess the Apostles’, Nicene, and Athanasian creeds to be true and faithful expressions of the Biblical teaching about God.

Anglican Tradition

All Christians practice their faith in a particular way—in a tradition. Ours is Anglican. We don’t believe the Anglican tradition is the only way to be faithful, but we are thankful for the good gifts we have in our heritage and for the ways it shapes and challenges us to grow in faith.

Here are a few distinctives that mark the Anglican way of being Christian:

  • When we gather to worship, we join with brothers and sisters from all around the world and throughout history to worship our great God. We deeply value the gift of our global family in the faith and our tangible relationship with the worldwide church (eighty percent of the world’s Anglicans worship in the southern hemisphere and in Asia).

  • Our worship is intentionally structured in a form designed to shape us and to honor what God has said about himself and about his people. Our heritage has given us the Book of Common Prayer, a guide to structure our corporate and individual worship, primarily by setting the scriptures into a format that facilitates prayer. Every Sunday, we join with the historic church in the public reading and preaching of God’s word, corporate prayer and confession, and the breaking of bread at the Lord’s table.

  • In essentials, unity. In non-essentials, liberty. In all things, charity.

    Rooted in the scriptures and the gospel of Jesus Christ, we celebrate our unity, walking together in God’s one family as brothers and sisters — brothers and sisters who don’t necessarily agree about everything. Yet we stand together under Christ our teacher and submit ourselves to his authority with love for one other and respect for our differences.

    If you are interested in a fuller unpacking of what we consider essential, let’s talk. That said, the Jerusalem Declaration is a good representation of Anglican thought grappling with the modern world.

Vicar

ARRON KAU

Arron moved to Indiana with his family in the summer of 2023 to accept a call at Christ Our Hope. He previously served in ministry at Holy Trinity Church of Boise, ID and Christ the Redeemer of Nampa, ID.

Diocese

Anglican Diocese of the great Lakes

Christ Our Hope is a mission congregation of The Anglican Diocese of the Great Lakes (ACNA) under the leadership of Bishop Mark Engel.