Our Mission
Our Values
At. St. Brendan’s Anglican our life together in Christ is motivated by six key values. These values are the bedrock of our mission and action, and we continually aspire to live by them more and more.
The Word
Worship
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The people of God giving our praise, prayers, and full selves to God out of all He has given us.
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Coming together each Sunday, in Christ’s presence, for the Eucharist Service (“Thanksgiving”) - the high point of a life of Worship and Prayer
Seeking to live our personal lives as a sacrifice to God in thought, word, and deed
Worshiping and Praying through the Anglican Daily Office
Joyfully and generously giving back to God from the time, talents, and treasures He has given to us.
Discipleship
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The call of Christ to walk with Him, to learn from Him, to become like Him, including the calling to make other disciples.
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Prioritizing the discipleship of all church members, from supporting children and parents in their family discipleship through our children’s ministry, to equipping teens and adults through catechism, and other formation-oriented instruction
In our Life Groups, where we seek to grow together in Christ-likeness through unpacking the Word together, praying for one another, and encouraging one another.
In seeking to develop leaders, both lay, and ordained, to serve God’s Kingdom and church, that more may experience and know Christ.
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God’s living and active words contained in Scripture, containing all things necessary for Salvation, and sufficient to mature us in the image of Christ. Jesus Christ Himself is the living Word, by whom all things were created and are held together.
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Hearing the Word read and preached in Sunday worship.
Reading, marking, and inwardly digesting the Word in the Daily Office and study.
Seeking to let God’s Word anchor and guide our decisions and beliefs as a church and individuals.
Community
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The mutual love, reconciliation, and care for one another in the Body, in seasons of joy and sorrow.
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Life Groups are a key context in which we come to know each other, love each other, and rejoice and weep together in the contours of our lives.
Providing meals, presence, and help, for those in our midst who are bereaved or undergoing major life transitions
Celebrating and Feasting together at our annual celebrations
When we sin or are sinned against, pursuing forgiveness and reconciliation (with help if needed), just as we have been forgiven in Christ.
Our Anglican Heritage
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Being rooted in, and benefiting from, the ancient paths, beautiful prayers, and worship practices of the many saints who have gone before us.
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Worshiping through the Book of Common Prayer (the Bible structured for worship)
Walking through the Daily Office
Having our music in worship pull the best from the great and beautiful vault of hymnody, ancient, traditional, and current, to the glory and praise of God
Feasting and fasting together through the feast days and seasons of the historic church calendar.
Mission
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The commission and commandment of Christ to make disciples of all nations, and to love our neighbor, the lost, and least, through the proclamation of the Gospel in word and deed.
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Our Mission Teams, which are lay-lead missional partnerships and efforts to fulfill the great commission and commandment locally and abroad.
Being open-hearted to the Holy Spirit’s leading in our individual callings to speak and live the hope of the Gospel to others
Our Beliefs
At St. Brendan’s, we believe the Gospel: That though we were dead in our trespasses, God, in mercy, sent His only begotten Son, to die for our sin, and rise from the dead, that all who believe in Him would receive forgiveness of sin, be reconciled with God, and have the sure hope of Resurrection life. We receive such a Gospel by grace, through faith, in Christ alone.
We hold the Bible to be the authoritative Word of God for the Church and all of life. From the Scriptures, we believe what early Christians articulated in the Apostles’, Nicene, and Athanasian Creeds. The Thirty-Nine Articles of 1571 are our Anglican confession of faith, both foundational to Anglican heritage and authoritative for Anglicans today. With Anglican churches around the world, we affirm the Jerusalem Declaration.
2019 Book of Common Prayer (online version)
Read more about our Province, the Anglican Church of North America
Read more about our regional diocese, spanning Oregon, Washington, and Alaska: the Anglican Diocese of Cascadia
Our Heritage
The Three Streams of the Anglican Way
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We are Evangelical, which means we believe wholeheartedly in the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and along with the original Anglican reformers, we rejoice in our justification being by grace through faith in Christ, alone. We understand that Jesus invites us into personal relationship with Himself, and we take seriously Jesus’ command to “go and make disciples of all nations.” As an Evangelical church, we emphasize the preaching and spreading of the Gospel, common prayer, Scripture reading, and the personal relationship that Christ calls each of us into.
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As a sacramental church, our life and unity in Christ is also reflected and experirenced in Baptism and the Lord’s Supper (also called the Eucharist). Weekly we gather to share Holy Communion to give thanks to God for his gift of His Son as redeemer, and receive His on-going ministering of grace. In baptism we are adopted into God’s family by faith. Anglican roots are steeped in centuries-old practices dating back to the early church, hence the traditions of vestments, processionals and sacred music, and the orders of Bishops, Presbyters, and Deacons.
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We are Charismatic, meaning we believe in and submit to the Holy Spirit who resides in each believer, uniting us to Christ, and equips us to use the unique gifts He’s given us to point to Christ. The Charismatic stream dates back to the day of Pentecost, when the Holy Spirit filled the disciples, bringing the presence of Christ within their hearts, and empowering them to bear witness to one another and the world.