History and Leadership

Our History

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Grace Anglican Church, a local New Bern, North Carolina neighborhood church, was originally founded as Emmanuel Church on September 22, 2000. In 2013, adopting the name “Grace Anglican Church of New Bern” we became part of the Anglican Church in North America through the Diocese of the Carolinas (ADOC). We also affiliated with the Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON), thus becoming connected to the Worldwide Anglican Communion. GAFCON 2018 was one of the largest global Anglican gatherings and brought together 1,950 representatives from 50 countries, including 316 bishops, 669 other clergy and 965 laity.

The Church’s journey led to a vibrant, spiritually strong community that looks forward to continuing growth. Through our strengthened resolve and commitment throughout the journey, the parish seeks and shares truth as expressed in Scripture. Today we are a loving, welcoming, and supportive congregation, prayerfully committed to Scripture and to one another.

Grace Anglican Church Today

Our values today are the same values of Christians over the last two millennia as found in Scripture: the Holy Bible. Each Sunday as Anglicans we affirm Matthew 22:37-40: “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”

Embodied in this affirmation are our values of commitment: to God – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; to liturgical, reverent worship; and, to loving, through prayer and service, both those within our faith community, as well as our neighbors in Trent Woods, New Bern and Craven County.