When You Visit
If you are considering a visit, here is some information that will be useful to you!
Meeting Time: 3:00pm
Location: 2124 Old Philadelphia Pike, Lancaster, PA 17602
What to Wear: Dress is typically business casual, but there is no particular expectation. Simply wear what is practical and comfortable. We want your focus to be on the worship, not what you are wearing.
Our church is currently located inside Faith Church, and we hold our Sunday service in one of their classrooms. The closest entrance to our classroom is accessible from the church parking lot. For a map, click the button below.
What to Expect
In this early phase, we are supported by a rotating team of ordained and lay ministers while we establish a stable mission structure. When a pastor is present, we celebrate Holy Communion according to the liturgy provided in the 2003 Book of Common Prayer intended for use in the Reformed Episcopal Church.
For those who are new, nothing is required of you. You are not expected to know when to stand or kneel, what to say, or how the service unfolds. You may simply sit, listen, pray quietly, and observe. The congregation will carry the service for you. The liturgy is meant to serve the worshiper, not burden him. Over time, its rhythm becomes familiar, but no one is judged for remaining still or silent.
Children are not an interruption to our worship; they are part of it. We welcome their presence and their voices. Families are encouraged to keep their children with them during the service so that they may learn, by sight and sound, what it means to worship God with His people. If a child becomes restless or needs a moment outside, parents should feel complete freedom to step out and return as needed, without embarrassment or concern.
If you are baptized and have publicly professed faith in Jesus Christ, you are welcome to partake of Communion!
Below you will find links to download our pamphlets for Holy Communion and Evening Prayer. Resurrection Anglican Mission alternates between Holy Communion and Evening Prayer every other week.
What is Anglican Worship?
Anglican worship is a joyful, Scripture-shaped way of praying and praising God with the wider Church, rooted in the ancient pattern which Christians have shared for centuries. Our services follow an ordered liturgy that includes prayers, Bible readings, Psalms, preaching, confession, thanksgiving, and the sacraments, so that week by week we are formed in faith and love. If you are new, nothing is required of you, and you are not expected to know what to say or when to stand or kneel. You are welcome to simply listen, pray quietly, and take it all in, and the congregation will gladly carry the service with you. We also love having children with us, and we welcome their presence and voices, and parents should feel complete freedom to stay in the service or step out for a moment as needed.
Worship in the Beauty of Holiness
Anglican worship does not try to be distinct or unique. Rather, it follows the worship handed down from the Old Testament patriarchs through Apostolic times and given to the various churches throughout the world. Anglicans do not believe “that Traditions and Ceremonies be in all places one, or utterly like…” (Articles of Religion, XXXIV). Yet Anglicans do believe that the traditions and ceremonies that stand at the core of Christian worship must be rooted in Holy Scripture and received by the whole Church.
For this reason, Anglicans worship according to a liturgy. A liturgy is an ordered pattern of prayer, Scripture, psalms, preaching, confession, thanksgiving, and sacrament, shaped not by personal preference but by the faith once delivered to the saints. It guides our worship both practically and theologically, forming us week by week in repentance, faith, reverence, and love for God. In our liturgy we are consciously copying what is shown to us in Scripture as the worship of heaven itself: the reading of God’s Word, the offering of prayer and incense, the giving of praise, the proclamation of Christ, and the presenting of holy gifts before the throne of God (Revelation 4:1–11).
This is why our church has an altar, and why bread and wine are offered, prayers are lifted, and incense may be used. We bow, stand, and kneel at various times, not as empty ritual, but as bodily expressions of humility, repentance, attentiveness, and adoration. The whole person is involved in worship—mind, voice, and body—because the whole person belongs to God.
The Anglican service itself is rooted in the ancient worship of the Church and shaped by the English Reformation to be fully biblical, reverent, and accessible to the people. The Book of Common Prayer gathered the historic structure of Christian worship—used in Jerusalem, Antioch, Rome, and Constantinople—and placed it into the language of ordinary believers, saturated with Scripture and ordered for the forming of holy lives. Our theology is likewise ancient and reformed: grounded in the authority of Holy Scripture, centered on justification by grace through faith in Christ, and expressed sacramentally through Baptism and the Lord’s Supper as real means by which God strengthens His people.
In this service, everyone has a place: clergy and laity, old and young, lifelong Christians and those only beginning to seek. Some speak, some sing, some listen, some pray in silence—but all are worshiping together before the same Lord, offering the same praise, and receiving the same mercy.
