We meet together to share the love of God, and then go out to present it to the world.

We are a community of Christians, seeking to follow Jesus with genuine faith and authentic love.  Our Anglican expression of Christianity maintains a tradition of the "via media" or the middle way. Thus, our service includes the proclamation of the Word of God, as well as the celebration of Holy Communion.

​Our worship together is based on the Book of Common Prayer, and the service is completely printed out in a service booklet, which is available at the church entrance and handed out by our ushers each Sunday.  Thus, members and visitors together may all easily participate in a time of being in God's presence, presenting ourselves to Him and receiving from His grace in our lives.

Our Vision
To be a vibrant church family that honors and glorifies God. A place of healing, serving, and growing together in Christ.
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Ascension Anglican is a church within the Anglican Diocese of San Joaquin where the Rt. Rev. Dr. Eric Menees presides as Bishop. 

Third Archbishop of the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) Elected

From ACNA website

The College of Bishops of the Anglican Church in North America has elected its next archbishop, the Rt. Rev. Steve Wood, bishop of the Diocese of the Carolinas. The College met in conclave in the crypt of St. Vincent’s Basilica at St. Vincent’s College in Latrobe, Pennsylvania from Thursday, June 20 through Saturday, June 22, 2024.

Bishop Wood will serve as the third archbishop of the Anglican Church in North America which was founded in 2009 and now has over 128,000 members in over 1,000 congregations across Canada, Mexico, and the United States.
The archbishop convenes the meetings of the Provincial Assembly, Provincial Council and College of Bishops, represents the Province in the Councils of the Church, serves as chairman of the Executive Committee (board) of the Church, serves as the President of the Anglican Relief and Development Fund, and undertakes other duties as prescribed by the Canons of the Church. He serves a five-year term and can serve a maximum of two terms.

BISHOP ERIC MENEES Q&A WITH ARCHBISHOP WOOD
June 29, 2024
From a letter sent to all San Joaquin congregations.
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Dear Brothers and Sisters of the Diocese of San Joaquin, last Saturday the College of Bishops elected Bishop Steve Wood of the Diocese of the Carolinas as our third archbishop. He was elected after a great deal of prayer, discussion and more prayer. One of the blessings of being in the ACNA is that, while not 100% unified, the College of Bishop is unified in supporting one another in pursuit of fulfilling the mission of the ACNA - “To Reach North America with the Transforming Love of Jesus Christ.”
Bp. Wood is a self-described lover of Jesus in the Charismatic Evangelical
tradition. It is very clear to me and the college that Archbishop Wood is a leader who is not afraid of conflict.
In a desire to allow the diocese to know him better, I asked him a few questions in order to begin a conversation and to help us all avoid speculation.
Read full letter here.

The Anglican Way 
(from Anglican Church in North America)

We believe and confess Jesus Christ to be the Way, the Truth, and the Life: no one comes to the Father but by Him. Therefore, the Anglican Church in North America identifies the following seven elements as characteristic of the Anglican Way, and essential for membership:

1. We confess the canonical books of the Old and New Testaments to be the inspired Word of God, containing all things necessary for salvation, and to be the final authority and unchangeable standard for Christian faith and life.
2. We confess Baptism and the Supper of the Lord to be Sacraments ordained by Christ Himself in the Gospel, and thus to be ministered with unfailing use of His words of institution and of the elements ordained by Him.
3. We confess the godly historic Episcopate as an inherent part of the apostolic faith and practice, and therefore as integral to the fullness and unity of the Body of Christ.
4. We confess as proved by most certain warrants of Holy Scripture the historic faith of the undivided church as declared in the three Catholic Creeds: the Apostles', the Nicene, and the Athanasian.
5. Concerning the seven Councils of the undivided Church, we affirm the teaching of the first four Councils and the Christological clarifications of the fifth, sixth and seventh Councils, in so far as they are agreeable to the Holy Scriptures.
6. We receive the Book of Common Prayer as set forth by the Church of England in 1662, together with the Ordinal attached to the same, as a standard for Anglican doctrine and discipline, and, with the Books which preceded it, as the standard for the Anglican tradition of worship.
7. We receive the Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion of 1571, taken in their literal and grammatical sense, as expressing the Anglican response to certain doctrinal issues controverted at that time, and as expressing the fundamental principles of authentic Anglican belief.

In all these things, the Anglican Church in North America is determined by the help of God to hold and maintain as the Anglican Way has received them the doctrine, discipline and worship of Christ.
"The Anglican Communion," Archbishop Geoffrey Fisher wrote, "has no peculiar thought, practice, creed or confession of its own. It has only the Catholic Faith of the ancient Catholic Church, as preserved in the Catholic Creeds and maintained in the Catholic and Apostolic constitution of Christ's Church from the beginning." It may licitly teach as necessary for salvation nothing but what is read in the Holy Scriptures as God's Word written or may be proved thereby. It therefore embraces and affirms such teachings of the ancient Fathers and Councils of the Church as are agreeable to the Scriptures, and thus to be counted apostolic. The Church has no authority to innovate: it is obliged continually, and particularly in times of renewal or reformation, to return to "the faith once delivered to the saints."
To be an Anglican, then, is not to embrace a distinct version of Christianity, but a distinct way of being a "Mere Christian," at the same time evangelical, apostolic, catholic, reformed, and Spirit-filled.

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