Heritage | Receive. Grow. G0.

That each would hear the gospel and believe. Receive their heritage in Christ.

That each would be discipled and grow in their identity as a son or daughter of God.

That each would "walk in the Spirit," going on mission to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ to their families, neighbors, and the world.

In Short: Receive. Grow. Go.

We are an Anglican church in Puna, passionate about equipping men, women, and children to live under the lordship of Jesus Christ, allowing the gospel to permeate their land, homes, and workplaces. We want to be a people who follow the movements of the Holy Spirit, worship God passionately, preach the Bible faithfully, and evangelize and disciple families and generations. This is all shaped by the Gospel grounded rhythms of our Anglican practice and liturgy, and enriched by our local culture on the Big Island.

We value:

Gospel centered. Jesus is the focal point for all Scripture, all church activity, and all life. In all things we receive our lives individually and corporately as a gift given by the Father, through the Son, applied by the Spirit.

Discipleship. We believe the heritage of faith in a covenant community is something that we must grow in, that we must teach our children daily to grow in, and we must hold one another accountable to pursuing Jesus with all our heart soul mind and strength.

Mission. We exist as a church to proclaim the good news to each other, to our neighbors, and to the world. We go on mission to invite others to receive the heritage of Christ crucified for sinners, and all the riches of Christ that come to us as a result of his work on the cross.

What we believe...

the old old story.

Our beliefs are rooted in the inerrant, authoritative, and sufficient words of Scripture.

Our allegiance is fundamentally to the Lordship of Jesus Christ over all things. We trust in God’s sovereign plan for the redemption of the world by the atoning death, burial, and glorious resurrection of Jesus. We exist as a church to proclaim the good news of Jesus’ death and resurrection and to make disciples of Him. The primary way we carry out this mission is by gathering families around the Word of God and the Sacraments of Communion and Baptism.

We find our beliefs best expressed in the historic creeds (Apostles, Athanasian, and Nicene) and in the words of the 39 Articles of Religion as written by the English Reformers in the 16th and 17th century. Our practice is rooted in and shaped by the Book of Common Prayer (1662 & 2019)

We affirm the 2008 Jerusalem Declaration ratified by Anglican churches of GAFCON.

  • I believe in God, the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth.

    I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord. He was conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary. He suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried. He descended to the dead. On the third day he rose again. He ascended into heaven, and is seated at the right hand of the Father. He will come again to judge the living and the dead.

    I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting.

  • We believe in one God, the Father, the Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all that is, seen and unseen.

    We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only Son of God, eternally begotten of the Father, God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, not made, of one Being with the Father. Through him all things were made. For us and for our salvation he came down from heaven: by the power of the Holy Spirit he became incarnate from the Virgin Mary, and was made man. For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate; he suffered death and was buried. On the third day he rose again in accordance with the Scriptures; he ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father. He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead, and his kingdom will have no end.

    We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life, who proceeds from the Father and the Son. With the Father and the Son he is worshiped and glorified. He has spoken through the Prophets. We believe in one holy catholic and apostolic Church. We acknowledge one baptism for the forgiveness of sins. We look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come.

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  • In the name of God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit:

    We agree to chart a way forward together that promotes and protects the biblical gospel and mission to the world, solemnly declaring the following tenets of orthodoxy which underpin our Anglican identity.

    1. We rejoice in the gospel of God through which we have been saved by grace through faith in Jesus Christ by the power of the Holy Spirit. Because God first loved us, we love him and as believers bring forth fruits of love, ongoing repentance, lively hope and thanksgiving to God in all things.

    2. We believe the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments to be the Word of God written and to contain all things necessary for salvation. The Bible is to be translated, read, preached, taught and obeyed in its plain and canonical sense, respectful of the church’s historic and consensual reading.

    3. We uphold the four Ecumenical Councils and the three historic Creeds as expressing the rule of faith of the one holy catholic and apostolic Church.

    4. We uphold the Thirty-nine Articles as containing the true doctrine of the Church agreeing with God’s Word and as authoritative for Anglicans today.

    5. We gladly proclaim and submit to the unique and universal Lordship of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, humanity’s only Saviour from sin, judgement and hell, who lived the life we could not live and died the death that we deserve. By his atoning death and glorious resurrection, he secured the redemption of all who come to him in repentance and faith.

    6. We rejoice in our Anglican sacramental and liturgical heritage as an expression of the gospel, and we uphold the 1662 Book of Common Prayer as a true and authoritative standard of worship and prayer, to be translated and locally adapted for each culture.

    7. We recognise that God has called and gifted bishops, priests and deacons in historic succession to equip all the people of God for their ministry in the world. We uphold the classic Anglican Ordinal as an authoritative standard of clerical orders.

    8. We acknowledge God’s creation of humankind as male and female and the unchangeable standard of Christian marriage between one man and one woman as the proper place for sexual intimacy and the basis of the family. We repent of our failures to maintain this standard and call for a renewed commitment to lifelong fidelity in marriage and abstinence for those who are not married.

    9. We gladly accept the Great Commission of the risen Lord to make disciples of all nations, to seek those who do not know Christ and to baptise, teach and bring new believers to maturity.

    10. We are mindful of our responsibility to be good stewards of God’s creation, to uphold and advocate justice in society, and to seek relief and empowerment of the poor and needy.

    11. We are committed to the unity of all those who know and love Christ and to building authentic ecumenical relationships. We recognise the orders and jurisdiction of those Anglicans who uphold orthodox faith and practice, and we encourage them to join us in this declaration.

    12. We celebrate the God-given diversity among us which enriches our global fellowship, and we acknowledge freedom in secondary matters. We pledge to work together to seek the mind of Christ on issues that divide us.

    13. We reject the authority of those churches and leaders who have denied the orthodox faith in word or deed. We pray for them and call on them to repent and return to the Lord.

    14. We rejoice at the prospect of Jesus’ coming again in glory, and while we await this final event of history, we praise him for the way he builds up his church through his Spirit by miraculously changing lives.

    GAFCON - Jerusalem Declaration

 A few Particulars

  • We believe the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments to be the Word of God written and to contain all things necessary for salvation. The Bible is to be translated, read, preached, taught and obeyed in its plain and canonical sense, respectful of the church’s historic and consensual reading.

  • All human beings are born under the curse of sin and deserving of everlasting punishment in hell. In their fallen state, humans have no means in their own “natural strength” to turn away from sin and towards God and no way of atoning for their sins on their own before a Holy God. There is salvation from the curse of sin and the fire of hell only in the name of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who came to earth as a man, lived a sinless life, was crucified for our sins and in our place on the cross. Through his death and resurrection he defeated death and sin and made a way for us to live forever with Him. The only hope for the world is Jesus Christ. Salvation belongs to him and He sovereignly ordains all things, including those who, in the everlasting purpose of God, He will deliver from curse and damnation and bring them by Christ to everlasting salvation.

    Original Sin

    Man is of his own nature inclined to evil and every person born into this world is deserving of God’s wrath and damnation.

    Free Will

    Humankind is unable to turn from sin and towards God in their own strength.

    Justification

    We are accounted righteous before God, only for the merit of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ by Faith, and not for our own works or deservings. We are justified by Faith in Jesus Christ alone.

  • We rejoice at the prospect of Jesus’ coming again in glory, and while we await this final event of history, we praise him for the way he builds up the church through his Spirit by miraculously changing lives.

  • Being Sacramental centers our church life around the Sacraments: Baptism (God’s all-sufficient Death for our death) and the Lord’s Supper (God’s undying Life for our life). In these two sacraments, as instituted by our Lord in His ministry, we come to know God and commune with Him as He is offered in His Word. But being sacramental does not end there. Being sacramental means being shaped by the two Sacraments in such a way that the whole of our lives becomes the site of encounter with our Lord Jesus Christ.

  • We acknowledge God’s creation of humankind as male and female and the unchangeable standard of Christian marriage between one man and one woman as the proper place for sexual intimacy and the basis of the family. We call Christians to lifelong fidelity in marriage and abstinence for those who are not married.

LEADERSHIP

Lead Pastor - Fr. Jonathan Fant

Jonathan is a pastor and church planter from the east side of O'ahu HI. He has a bachelor’s in music composition and a masters in Christian Studies from New Saint Andrews College. He and his wife Jessica have 3 children.

Heritage Anglican rests under the care and guidance of Bishop Ken Ross, bishop of the Anglican Diocese of the Rocky Mountains. He has a deep connection with the Anglican Church of Rwanda. He and his wife, Sallie, reside in Colorado Springs.

Bishop - The Rt. Rev. Ken Ross

Heritage Anglican Church is officially a mission of it’s sending church, All Saints Anglican Church in Honolulu. The Vestry (board of directors) of All Saints oversees and provides accountability for the finances of the Heritage Anglican Church. Heritage is also the church plant arm of Big Island Anglican Mission. Please feel free to ask us any questions about our governance and polity!