The “New House for the Church”
The “Church,” the ecclesia, is the people of God. When St.Paul in his New Testament letters refers to the Church, he is not referring to any building (for there was no “church building”, people gathered in houses for eucharist and fellowship), he is referring to Christian people in a particular local.
With this theological teaching in mind, the Anglican parish of the Resurrection – in a time of liturgical and spiritual renewal – continues to build the Church (as is our call in every generation), edifying and calling into deepening maturity the people of God who gather in this parish. In this process of building up the Church, we do need to “house” the church. This is what the “New House for the Church” building project is all about – we need to put a new roof over the Church in our parish…a House that will enable us to continue to proclaim and live the