About St. Andrew’s Anglican Church
What we believe
We believe that God is eternal in three persons of one substance and equal majesty, power, and glory: The Father, The Son, and the Holy Ghost. In this form God’s existence is the mystery of the Holy Trinity.
We believe in God the Father Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth; in Jesus, His only begotten Son; in the Holy Ghost who proceeds from the Father and the Son with equal majesty, power, and glory.
We believe that Jesus has two natures in one person. He is of one substance with the Father and is therefore truly God. He took Man’s nature in the womb of the Blessed Virgin Mary through the power of the Holy Ghost and is truly Man who suffered, was crucified, dead and buried to reconcile the Father to us, and to be a sacrifice, not only for original guilt, but also for actual sins of men. In Jesus, these two whole and perfect natures are never to be divided.
We believe that each person is created in the image of God, with an eternal soul and a physical body.
We believe in the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and life everlasting.
What we do
We offer to God the Father the memorial of Christ’s Last Supper each Sunday with Holy Communion of bread and wine.
We gather for weekly services (Holy Eucharist) on Sundays, Holy Days of Obligation, and assigned feast days and hold Morning Prayer once each week in church.
We hold Bible Study once each week to improve our knowledge of the written word of God.
We use the Book of Common Prayer (1928) and the Authorized Version Bible (King James Version) in our services and Bible study.
Our Tradition
The Anglican-Catholic tradition is a continuation of the Christian faith established in England during the first century AD by missionaries and bishops sent from Rome to the Anglo-Saxons living in South-West England.
Our tradition is based on Holy Scripture (Old and New Testaments with the Apocrypha), the writings of the Church Fathers, and the seven Ecumenical Councils.
Our clergy is canonically ordained in the line of Apostolic Succession through the laying-on of hands by a Bishop authorized to make deacons and priests. Our three orders of clergy are deacon, priest, and bishop.
We administer the Seven Sacraments as appropriate and believe that two sacraments are necessary for salvation: Baptism and Holy Eucharist because these two were ordained by Christ in the Gospels.
We are aligned with the Traditional Anglican Church by upholding the Affirmation of St. Louis. We are independent of the Anglican Communion and the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Our Clergy
The Ven. Canon Frederick Rivers
Rector of St. Andrew's ParishThe Ven. Canon Frederick W. Rivers was born September 27, 1938 in Phoenix, Arizona. He went to elementary and high school in Phoenix. He attended church at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, virtually from birth, where his maternal grandfather was the priest and his grandmother taught the Sunday school. Read More…
The Rev. William Stewart
Associate Priest of St. Andrew's ParishThe Rev. Charles William ‘Bill’ Stewart was born on December 9, 1956 on the Marine Corps Base at Camp LeJeune, North Carolina. Before he was six, his father was transferred to Quantico, near Falls Church,VA, which is where his first memories of church were formed. He was baptized and confirmed at St. Dunstan’s Episcopal Church by Fr. Loweth and trained as an acolyte there as well. Read More…
The Rev. Josef Mayntz
Pastor of St. Andrew’s ParishThe Rev. Josef Mayntz was born on October 24, 1944 in Waldbroel, a small village south-east of Cologne, Germany. He was baptized into the Roman Catholic faith and was brought up by his mother and grandparents until his father was released from a prisoner of war camp in 1946. Then, the family moved to a new home in Junkersdorf, on the west side of the River Rhine, where he started elementary school in the spring of 1950. Read More…