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What is an Episcopal church?
The Episcopal Church claims an historic Episcopate—that is, our Bishops are ordained by Bishops who were ordained by Bishops in an unbroken line all the way back to the Apostles of Jesus in the first century A.D. church. Our own Bishop, the Right Reverend Henry I. Louttit, is the Chief Pastor of the Episcopal Diocese of Georgia. The Episcopal Church of Our Savior at Honey Creek is one of seventy-two churches of which he has oversight. We hold that the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments are the revealed Word of God. We hold that the Nicene Creed is a sufficient statement of the Christian Faith. Our two sacraments are Baptism and the Supper of the Lord (also called Holy Eucharist and Holy Communion). Holy Communion is administered by a priest who uses Christ’s own words of institution to bless bread and wine, the elements used by Christ at his last supper with his disciples on the night before he was crucified.
Each Sunday our worship
service includes four readings from Holy Scripture, prayers from The
Book of Common Prayer, hymn singing and a sermon, all of which are
coordinated to form a complete thought on Christianity. Each week we recite together the Nicene Creed. All Christians who have been
baptized in the three-fold name of God the Father, God the Son, and God the
Holy Spirit are welcome to receive communion.
Our signs along the road that say “The Episcopal Church welcomes you.” Please take that statement seriously and join us as we form a faith community for joyful worship. Together we will grow and learn to love God more dearly as he is revealed in our risen Savior Jesus Christ. For more information, please see “What do we believe?” and “The teaching of the Episcopal Church.”
On the grounds of Honey Creek |
The Episcopal Church was first brought to
this area as the Church of England when Georgia was established as a colony
in 1733. The Church of England was up and running in 1549 with its first
Book of Common Prayer, but in reality its history and our history go further
back than that. We trace our church all the way back to Jesus Christ, who
established his church in approximately 33 A.D. 