Our Mission Statement

Our mission at Canterbury Episcopal Chapel and Student Center is to show God's love through Christ by being a sanctuary and an accepting community for worship, spiritual grown, and compassionate service.

 

A Unique Parish

Some might say that we are a unique Episcopal Church; being both a chaplaincy and a parish. While its true, we are also unique in the way we come together to seek Christ in the word, sacraments, and service.

We count as members and friends students, graduates, faculty, and all those whose faith is encouraged and strengthened by engagement with a parish that stands on the frontier between church and university, town and gown. Our mission is that of the Church here in this broader University community:

To proclaim the Good News of the Kingdom

To teach, baptise and nurture new believers

To respond to human need by loving service

To seek to transform unjust structures of society
To strive to safeguard the integrity of creation and sustain and renew the life of the earth

(from the Anglican Communion's Five Marks of Mission)

ALL are welcome, ALL are invited

At Canterbury Chapel Episcopal Church and Student Center, all are welcome regardless of race, ethnicity, faith tradition, class, age, political party, education, gender, marital status, physical or mental ability, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. We are a community grounded in our faith as expressed in the Nicene and Apostles’ Creeds and bound together by our Baptismal Covenant. It is because of our faith and the promises made at Baptism that we are called to seek and serve Christ in all persons, to strive for justice, and to be the hands and feet of Christ in the world. Through the welcoming and inclusion of all people, through diversity of ideas and opinions, our community is made better and we are better able to carry out our mission as the Body of Christ.

 

We really mean it . . .

 

If you are a life-long Alabama football fan, or have never watched a game in life, or even if you are an Auburn fan, or . . .

If you are White, Black, Asian, Hispanic, or . . .

If you are male or female or transgendered, or . . .

If you are three days old or 103 years old, or . . .

If you are a student, professor, or staff at the University of Alabama or if you have never set foot on campus, or . . .

If you are employed, unemployed, or you just haven’t figured out what you want to be when you grow up, or . . .

If you are Episcopalian, Roman Catholic, Baptist, Pentecostal, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, agnostic, atheist, or anything in between, or . . .

If you are single, married, partnered, divorced, separated, or widowed, or . . .

If you are straight, gay, lesbian, or bisexual, or . . .

If you are Republican, Democrat, Independent, Socialist, or not registered to vote, or . . .

If you have or have had addictions, phobias, or a criminal record, or . . .

If you own your home, rent, live with your parents, or are homeless, or . . .

If you are typically-abled, disabled, or a person of differing abilities . . .

 

YOU ARE WELCOME! YOU ARE INVITED!