About US
We are a historically rooted and biblically orthodox community that gathers to glorify God through the beauty of participatory liturgical worship. As fellowship around the Table is central to our life, we joyfully welcome all to share in Christ's presence, and to be equipped to exalt God's name in our lives, our local community, and around the world. Whether you have worshiped in a liturgical church your whole life or are simply exploring Christianity, you will find a welcoming community centered on the unchanging Gospel of Jesus Christ and the faith once delivered to the saints.
Worship
We believe that the liturgy of corporate worship is one of the most significant means by which God extends his grace to his people. Our worship is grounded in the Book of Common Prayer, a historic document that provides the structure for our daily and Sunday observances. Through the sacraments of Holy Communion and Baptism, we participate in the mystery of Christ's presence and the renewal of our spiritual life. We seek to honor the ancient roots of the Church while remaining faithful to the Reformed emphasis on the Word and sacrament as the means of grace.
We seek to fulfill the Great Commission by welcoming covenantal members into our community through baptism and dwelling in unity through communion.
Sacrament
We seek to fulfill the Great Commission by welcoming covenantal members into our sacramental community through baptism and perseverung in unity through Eucharist.
Reading, preaching, teaching, and meditating on scripture sits at the heart of our spirtual life - both as a community and as individuals.
Word
Reading, preaching, teaching, and meditating on scripture sits at the heart of our spirtual life - both as a community and as individuals.
about us: Worship
beliefs
We are a biblical, creedal, Anglican church rooted in the historic Christian faith. We believe that Holy Scripture is the inspired, authoritative, and only infallible rule for faith and life, and that every doctrine and practice must be measured by God's Word. At the same time, we read Scripture within the great tradition of the Church, confessing the catholic creeds as faithful summaries of biblical truth and embracing the historic consensus of the Christian faith handed down through the centuries. As Anglicans, we are both Reformed and Catholic, affirming the biblical convictions of the Protestant Reformation while remaining grounded in the worship, sacramental life, and episcopal order of the ancient Church. Our doctrine is shaped by the Thirty-Nine Articles while our worship follows the Book of Common Prayer and the time-tested rhythms of Christian liturgy, where Scripture, prayer, preaching, and Holy Communion draw us into deeper communion with Christ.
about Us: Beliefs
Anglicans believe that the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments are the Word of God and the supreme authority for Christian faith and life. Through the Bible, God reveals himself, makes known his saving purposes, and leads us to faith in Jesus Christ.
Scripture contains all things necessary for salvation. No doctrine may be required of Christians unless it can be proved from the Bible. The creeds, formularies, traditions, and teachings of the Church are therefore received only insofar as they faithfully express the truth of God’s Word.
The Bible stands at the center of Anglican worship. It is read extensively in every service, prayed through the Psalms and canticles, proclaimed in preaching, and woven throughout the language of the Book of Common Prayer. Anglicans seek not only to study Scripture, but to hear, pray, and live it together.
We read the Bible within the fellowship of the historic Church, guided by the creeds and the wisdom of Christians across the centuries. Yet Scripture remains the final standard by which every teaching and tradition must be tested, for through its pages we hear the voice of the living God.
Anglicans confess the historic faith of the Church through the Apostles’ Creed, the Nicene Creed, and the Athanasian Creed. These creeds do not replace Scripture, but faithfully summarise its central teaching about God, Jesus Christ, salvation, and the Christian hope.
The Apostles’ Creed is the ancient baptismal confession of the Church and is used regularly in Morning and Evening Prayer.
The Nicene Creed, confessed at Holy Communion, gives a fuller statement of the Church’s faith in the Holy Trinity and in the person and saving work of Jesus Christ.
The Athanasian Creed offers an especially careful explanation of the doctrines of the Trinity and the incarnation. Though used less frequently in worship today, it remains an important witness to the faith received and defended by the historic Church.
Together, the three creeds unite Anglicans with Christians across the centuries and throughout the world. They remind us that Christianity is not something each generation invents for itself, but a faith received from the apostles, grounded in Scripture, and centered upon the Triune God.
Anglican belief is expressed most clearly in the historic formularies of the Church: the Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion, the Book of Common Prayer, and the Ordinal for the making of bishops, priests, and deacons. These documents emerged from the English Reformation and give Anglicanism its distinctive theological shape.
The Thirty-Nine Articles set out a thoroughly biblical and evangelical understanding of the Christian faith. They affirm the supreme authority of Holy Scripture, salvation by grace through faith in Jesus Christ, the sufficiency of Christ’s sacrifice, and the proper place of the sacraments within the life of the Church.
The Book of Common Prayer puts this theology into practice. Its services teach us to confess our sins, trust in God’s mercy, hear his Word, receive the sacraments, and live lives of grateful obedience.
The Ordinal establishes the historic threefold ministry of bishops, priests, and deacons, while making the preaching of Scripture and the pastoral care of God’s people central to ordained ministry.
Together, these formularies preserve the character of Anglicanism: evangelical in doctrine, catholic in order, and shaped throughout by Holy Scripture.
Grace Anglican Fellowship belongs to the Anglican Church in North America, a province founded in 2009 as a biblical, orthodox, and gospel-centred movement within the global and historic Anglican tradition. The ACNA was formed by Anglicans committed to preserving the faith once delivered to the saints and proclaiming the transforming love of Jesus Christ throughout North America.
The ACNA’s Fundamental Declarations affirm the Holy Scriptures as the final authority for Christian faith and life, the three historic creeds, the sacraments instituted by Christ, the historic episcopate, the Book of Common Prayer, and the Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion. Together, these commitments express a faith that is evangelical in doctrine, catholic in order, and Anglican in worship.
The ACNA also stands within the worldwide renewal of orthodox Anglicanism represented by GAFCON and the Jerusalem Declaration of 2008. The Jerusalem Declaration confesses the gospel of salvation by grace through faith in Jesus Christ, upholds the supreme authority of Scripture, and calls Anglicans throughout the world to remain faithful to the historic formularies and the Great Commission.
In 2026, the Abuja Affirmation renewed this vision, declaring that true Christian communion is founded not merely upon inherited institutions, but upon a common confession of biblical truth. It calls faithful Anglicans to stand together around Jesus Christ, Holy Scripture, the Jerusalem Declaration, and the historic Anglican formularies as we seek to proclaim the Gospel to every nation.
Leadership
Get to know us
Fr. Oliver Robinson
Fr. Oliver Robinson was ordained in the Church of England and ministered in inner-city London for a decade before relocating to the United States. He completed his Master of Divinity at Wycliffe Hall, University of Oxford (2013–2015), and earned an MA in Abrahamic Religions from Heythrop College, University of London (2011). Until its closure, Fr. Oliver was a Professor at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, where he taught Counseling and Theological Worldview and Assessments and Evaluation. His teaching and research focus on the relationship between theology and psychology, with particular attention to the application of Christian theology to spiritual struggles encountered in clinical practice. Fr. Oliver is overjoyed to be serving within the ACNA, in the Diocese of Christ our Hope and the Great Plains Missionary District. He is married with two young children and enjoys literature, history, and motorcycles.
Vicar
Rt. Rev. Alan J. Hawkins
Bishop Ordinary
Since 2024, Bishop Alan has been the bishop ordinary of the Anglican Diocese of Christ Our Hope. Prior to this, he founded the Church of the Redeemer in Greensboro, North Carolina, which began as a small group in the Hawkins' living room and as of 2021 had attendance of nearly 500. He has served in several roles at the provincial level for the ACNA, including chief operating officer of the province, canon for provincial development, and vicar of the ACNA-wide Anglican 1000 church planting initiative. As canon for provincial development, he helped raise $1 million annually to support provincial initiatives. As chief operating officer for the Province, he oversaw the church's financial and communications offices in Ambridge, Pennsylvania, and the ACNA's initiatives on leadership development, diversity, youth leadership, global partnerships, justice and mercy ministries, church planting, and generosity.
Rt. Rev. Paul Donison
Assisting Bishop for Great Plains Missionary District
Bishop Paul is the Rector and Dean of Christ Church Plano in Plano Texas. Ordained in 2004, he served in several Canadian parishes before being called to Texas in 2016 with his wife, Monika, and their four daughters. In 2023 he was elected by the GAFCON (Global Anglican Communion) Primates as General Secretary and consecrated as a Bishop in Rwanda in 2024. Bishop Paul also serves as an Assisting Bishop for Great Plains Missionary District. He holds a B.F.A in Theatre from the University of Victoria, a Dp.C.S. and M.Div. from Regent College, and has done doctoral work at Trinity School for Ministry. He serves on the boards of Trinity School for Ministry and East African Christian College (Kigali, Rwanda). As a retired stage actor, Bishop Paul continues to memorize and dramatically storytell the Scriptures when he preaches.
OUR NETWORK
The Anglican Church in North America unites 1340,000 Anglicans in over 1,000 congregations across the United States, Canada, and Mexico into a single Church.
The Diocese of Christ Our Hope’s mission is to plant, equip, and multiply disciple-making Anglican churches, and to support and serve their people and leaders in Christian life and mission.
The Great Plains Missionary District is an Anglican initiative to share the Gospel through the planting of churches and missions under the oversight of the Diocese of Christ Our Hope.
Mission Partners
Rwandan Diocese of Gahini
The Diocese of Gahini is a vibrant center for evangelism and spiritual revival in Rwanda. Their mission extends far beyond the pulpit, encompassing critical advancements in health, education, and social development. Through these holistic efforts, they embody the transformative power of the Gospel for the entire community.
Love INC of Lake County
Grace Anglican Fellowship is proud to be one of 55 partner churches serving the vulnerable in our local community. By volunteering at Love INC of Lake County, we live out our faith through practical service, helping to coordinate resources and support for our neighbors in need.
These partnerships are a vital expression of Grace Anglican's mission to exalt God's name and share His love beyond our Sunday worship, impacting lives both locally and globally.