Holy Trinity began when several couples came together to try to hear God’s voice for their lives. Certainly, these people did not have planting a church in mind! We only knew we had a hunger in our spirits that we could not quench. We met on Wednesday nights in homes to pray, to search the Scriptures, share a meal and just be together in caring fellowship with one another.

Over the next year or so, we began to sense something happening within us, an excitement, a holy whisper to surrender ourselves more intentionally into His hands, wherever He might lead us.” These couples, sensing the leading of the Holy Spirit, voted unanimously to seek to plant a church in Metro-Jackson. The group met with Bishop T. J. Johnston and David Young, both from St. Andrew’s Church in Little Rock, to begin that process. Holy Trinity was thereupon formed and now grows in number and in the Spirit, as we follow His lead and growth in grace and knowledge of our Savior and Lord, Jesus Christ.

We continue to seek to establish a church that is founded on God’s Holy Word and committed to the truth that salvation is found in Jesus Christ alone. We are united in the desire for a liturgical form of worship rooted in the Scriptures as the Word of God. Our fellowship represents the three streams of scriptural, sacramental and spirit-filled, but these worship preferences are considered to be three streams converging into one river of life. Our purpose is to encounter and share the Holy Trinity through worship, community and mission in the Jackson metropolitan area, in Mississippi and to the ends of the earth.

Holy Trinity Anglican Church is a member of the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) under the Anglican Diocese of the South. As a member of the ACNA, Holy Trinity is in full communion with Anglicans the world over.

Liturgy literally means, “the work of the people.” When we speak of liturgical worship, we are speaking of a form of worship which calls everyone to actively, personally, and passionately do the work of worship, beginning to end.

A liturgical style of worship, particularly one that is centered around Holy Eucharist (The Lord’s Supper), engages the believer in every human sense: seeing, hearing, touching, tasting, and even smelling. And with our senses engaged, we have the joy to actively participate in the drama of the Gospel, the greatest truth, each time we gather as a corporate body.

Perhaps at the core of embracing liturgy is the belief that to engage in worship is to not be a spectator. In a practical sense, this means that a participant isn’t just listening to or admiring the worship of another, but their own heart, mind, and even body are participating in the act of worship itself.
Experiencing this type of service for the first time might give you the sense that if an early church father walked in the room, he would know exactly what was going on! A beautiful reality of a liturgical service is that Christians from all over the world and from every tongue and tribe can enter a service like this, perhaps not sharing a language or a cultural heritage, and can immediately experience worship with one another, in Spirit and Truth.
Liturgical worship looks incredibly different from the modern world. It, in some ways, is the opposite of Facebook, Twitter, and a fast-paced lifestyle. Liturgy forces you to slow down. When you kneel, you are not only expressing humility, but you are being made more humble. When you perform the sign of the cross, you are pressed to remember the literal intimacy of the Trinity and God’s complete provision for you. When you are anointed with oil, you are joining the ancients in proclaiming the power of the Holy Spirit and remembering God’s extravagant love for us. And when you are served the bread and wine, having first confessed your sins and passed the Peace of Christ to your neighbor, you are literally nourished with the only thing that can sustain you in this life: the body and blood of Jesus.