Who We Are
Saint Barnabas is a small community church. We are part of The Episcopal Church and The Episcopal Church in Colorado that draws from both the Protestant and Catholic traditions. It is part of the Anglican Communion, churches around the world in communion with the Church of England. Member churches share a common heritage and commitment to the authority of scripture, tradition, and reason. We are local and global; small enough to care, yet big enough to serve.
A Word and Worship Church
The Scriptures and the Sacraments ground us in wisdom and faith. We value beautiful music and are blessed with talented musicians who are integral to our worship services. We offer an online Zoom option most Sundays. In our turbulent world, our church provides us a spiritual home with depth of meaning in learning how to better love God, love neighbor, and love self.
An Outreach Church
Outreach is core to our identity. Outreach is assisting others by providing financial, material, spiritual, and emotional well-being. We seek to love and serve God by loving and serving those around us. Most of our members are passionately involved in serving our communities being especially mindful of those most vulnerable.
A Family Church
Our members come from all ages and walks of life. We are here to help develop a richer relationship with God, and here for one another.
A Welcoming Church
We are warm and friendly. We offer communal love, support, compassion, fellowship, and inclusion that we share with each other and the wider community. Please join us some Sunday! All are welcome!
COME AND SEE ...
We are becoming a new and re-formed church, the Episcopal branch of the Jesus Movement— individuals, small gathered communities and congregations whose way of life is the way of Jesus and his way of love, no longer centered on empire and establishment, no longer fixated on preserving institutions, no longer shoring up white supremacy or anything else that hurts or harms any child of God.
By God’s grace ...
... WE ARE BECOMING A CHURCH
THAT LOOKS AND ACTS LIKE JESUS.
What does this re-formation look like in practice? We’ll know we’re moving forward when we ...
Center on Jesus Christ.
His teachings, his example, his Spirit, his way of love and his way of life are the key to having loving, liberating and life-giving relationships with God, our neighbors, all of creation, and ourselves.
Practice the selfless, self- giving way of the cross.
The way of “cruciform love”— Jesus’ act of unselfish, sacrificial, self-offering love, or losing one’s life in order to gain it—is our way to authentic life.
Unite around the practice of a rule of life in small gathered communities.
These kinds of groups—small circles of people who support each other in following Jesus with intention and accountability— are necessary for cultivating Christ- centered life.
Reclaim our Christian identity as a Spirit-driven, countercultural, underground movement.
We must break
free of the church’s identification with domination systems, empire, establishment, privilege, and social and cultural traditions that have held us captive—and get back in touch with the risk- taking, liberating ways of Jesus.
Live and bear bold witness to the vision and values of Jesus.
We point to the reality of the kingdom (the peaceable reign) of God, and we
seek to embody the beloved community, where each person strives for and celebrates the dignity and flourishing of every beloved child of God as much as we do for ourselves.
