St. John’s is a friendly and growing parish located in the heart of downtown Detroit. Our mission is to propagate the Gospel of Jesus Christ through traditional worship, biblical preaching, sound teaching, and caring fellowship—and to equip one another to live and share the Good News of God in Jesus Christ.
We are a traditional Anglican parish of the Episcopal Diocese of Michigan and a member of the Episcopal Church, which in turn belongs to the worldwide fellowship of national churches called the Anglican Communion.
Anglicanism is part of the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church instituted by Jesus Christ. The word ‘Anglican’ refers to our spiritual heritage and roots in the Church of England. The Anglican Communion affirms its ‘Catholic’ heritage—a term used to express our fidelity to the whole Faith as revealed by Jesus Christ (without additions or subtractions), as proclaimed by the Apostles, evangelists, saints, scholars, and martyrs of the Early Church, and as taught in Holy Scripture. At the same time, Anglicans give thanks for the witness of the pastors and teachers who, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, sought to “reform” the Church—some of whom gave their lives in testimony to the authority of the Bible as the principal rule of faith and practice.
The center of our worship is the Holy Communion—the service specifically commanded by Jesus in the New Testament. The Eucharist joins our offering of worship to Christ's offering of Himself upon the altar of the Cross. As He promised (Matthew 26; Mark 14; Luke 22; John 6; 1 Corinthians 11), Jesus is truly and spiritually present under the outward forms of the consecrated Bread and Wine, as an assurance of grace to infuse our lives with the spiritual strength of His life.