About
About Resurrection Parish
Whether we hear ourselves speak the words or not, eventually everyone feels the weight of these two questions: Who am I? Why am I here?
No matter how we answer those questions, nearly everyone comes to the conclusion that “There is more to life than I am experiencing. I want to make the quest to find it.”
At Resurrection we provide a Christian framework to help you discover and live the “more” of life and the good you were created for.
We are an Anglican Christian community in suburban Tampa Bay dedicated to prayer, service to others, unity in Christ, and spiritual formation. Foundational to our common life is faith in Jesus Christ who rescues us from self-deception, sin, and evil, so that we can live in the power of God’s spirit. As a result we live lives of hope, direction, and purpose.
Perhaps our name describes best who and what we are: Resurrection. Though death seems to be the final boundary, Jesus defied the known order of the universe when he was raised from the dead out of a borrowed grave in Jerusalem 2,000 years ago. Impossible as it may seem, we have been freed from the finality of death. Because he lives, we shall live also.
So despite anything that life may throw at us, even death itself, we are "Resurrection people": alive to all that God has in store for us, both in this life and the next.
We are committed to prayer, service to others, Christian unity, and spiritual formation.
Our Story
Resurrection began in 2018 with the formation of the Anglican Union, a branch of the historic Church designed to unite Christians around the world, reaching from Africa and India to Europe and the Caribbean, and from South to North America. The Anglican Union is governed by a council of Patron Bishops, clergy, and parishioners.
In this time when so many areas of life are changing, we are dedicated to proclaiming the gospel of Jesus Christ through prayer, service, unity and spiritual formation. We are an open Christian society that holds to the orthodox biblical faith, believes in the teachings of Jesus, and worships according to the Anglican tradition.
Meet Our Team
Our parish is led by an amazing group of people who serve alongside us in the church’s mission. Our weekly services and year-round ministries would not be possible without these servant leaders.
Our Mission
The theme that binds us together is this: We are a people who seek to follow Jesus, love others, and live in mission.
But why? Because God loves us so much that he gave his son Jesus so that all who believe in him should not perish but have everlasting life. Our faith is not a hobby. It's the center of our lives that inspires everything we are and hope to be, by the grace of God.
What We Value
What We Believe
Prayer is the foundational practice of our lives. It is the principal way our spirit communes with God. It opens our heart to hear God's guidance, and experience his never-failing presence.
The Bible is the Word of God, containing all that is necessary for salvation and the standards for living.
All people are born in need of God’s love and forgiveness, and that by accepting Jesus as the substitute in place of our being lost to God, he has become our Savior, our brother, and our Lord.
The sacrament of Baptism is the outward sign of initiation into the body of Christ by which the church demonstrates God’s spiritual cleansing and renewal through water and God’s Word.
The sacrament of Holy Communion, also called the Eucharist, is offered at every mass as the feast of great thanksgiving in which we remember Jesus’s sacrifice for the sin of the world, and by which we are spiritually fed. By eating the bread and drinking the wine, consecrated during the mass, we are participating in the gift of his broken body and poured-out blood freely given by him to us on the cross. The Eucharist is offered to assure us of God’s forgiveness, presence with us, and promise of eternal life.
Jesus is our model of compassion. The gift of salvation we have received from Him compels us to serve others in His name both locally and globally.
The Church is the community of Christians gathered to worship God, grow in Christian faith, love and care for each other, and bring others to know God’s love. The church is the Body of Christ on Earth, commissioned by the Lord to do good works in His name so that others will see and glorify God, accepting his invitation to become united with him both in this life and in the life to come.
