"...Do ye now believe?
Our Story
Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase. Job 8:7
We started 9 years ago as a prayer group meeting in our homes seeking guidance from the Holy Ghost on the question of planting a new church to escape the earthly innovations and heterodoxy of TEC. A member of a local Methodist church offered to share their sanctuary with us and we formed St. Athanasius Mission. As we grew we moved to the Elmont Ruritan Club and then to the Glen Allen VFW before purchasing our present property on Staples Mill Road.
If you are seeking a church to call home that hasn't given in to secularism come stand with us to proclaim the Good News of Jesus Christ to those in need and to any who seek orthodoxy. If you are concerned about fitting in you will find we are welcoming and friendly and yes there are opportunities for you to discover and use your gifts. We live in community to help strengthen and support each other through regular common worship and life in the faith.
Our temporary quarters is a house church we use as our place of worship and meeting hall.
St. Athanasius has completed the first stage of our building program. This involved renovation of the house that included a chapel, classrooms and a fellowship space, all of which are now open. As we grow as a church and a community, we will expand the chapel and raise up a new sanctuary in the coming months to the glory of God.
The mission of St. Athanasius is to realize that wealth of ordered devotion and sacramental life which is the mark of Catholicism, to express those evangelical and prophetic values which are the glory of Protestantism*, and live into Jesus Christ's great commission to proclaim the good news of the "faith once-delivered".
We invite you to come and see.
**Anglicanism rightly taught posits that "Protestant" and "Catholic" are not opposites but rather a means to an end: to be rightly Catholic one must be Pro-Testant (pro-Testament). The English Reformation was 'Pro-testant' (rather than con-testant- to be 'for' not against)
in that it restored Catholicism from accrued unbiblical Roman doctrines and resisted the efforts of
Continental Reformers to strip away doctrines held by the early Church.
Bishop blessing motorcycles.
Our first Communion at Mt. Hope.
We met in homes and in fields.