Welcome to St. Teresa's online! We hope you will visit us in person on Sunday morning or Wednesday evenings for worship and fellowship. Until then, please look through our website to see the many places you can be fed (both spiritually and literally) and feed others among the people of St.Teresa's.
ALL ARE WELCOME HERE. We come from a variety of ethnic, racial, and economic backgrounds. We include nuclear, multi-generational, single-parent, and blended families. Young and old worship, play, and serve together, and many of us have come to St. Teresa's from Catholic, Baptist, and other denominational backgrounds. God has adopted us through Christ, so we belong to the same family. As we say in our baptismal vows, "we seek to serve Christ in all persons."
WORSHIP
St. Teresa's makes the richness and reverence of the Episcopal tradition comfortable and inviting. We laugh in church. We think in church. We lift up our hearts and all that is dear to us. We offer a nursery for infants and toddlers, but we also welcome children of all ages to worship with us, and those age 10 and older may sign up for specific roles in the liturgy.
As Episcopalians, the Book of Common Prayer guides our worship. It brings together prayers that Christians have used since our earliest gatherings with prayers that lift to God the hopes and thanks of our own lives today. We read and listen to scripture, hear a sermon, sing hymns of thanks and praise, and celebrate the mystery of our faith through communion of bread and wine. Sunday worship we call "the Eucharist" (meaning "the thanksgiving") because we come to give thanks for all God is doing in our lives and in the world.
FAITH
We believe our faith grows best when balanced by the three voices of Scripture, Reason, and Tradition. Scripture tells us the long story of God and the life, death, and resurrection of our savior Jesus Christ. Tradition shows how humans (as the Church) have understood that story and the mystery of Christ coming into the world. Reason allows us to continually engage not only Scripture and Tradition but what the living God is doing in our lives and in the world right now through the Holy Spirit.
Faith is a way of seeing the world, a way of responding to life and the people we meet. By our faith we hope in a world that may have little reason for optimism. We trust in a world that nevertheless may let us down. We continue on, realizing and acknowledging where we damage our world and beginning again because, by God's grace, we are forgiving those who have wronged us. In this mystery of faith we find the peace which passes all understanding.
When you come, please fill out a welcome card so we can get to know you better or email us at Welcome Visitors to St. Teresa's.
If you are interested in our Church please fill out one of the following forms.
Application for Baptism
