About Us

Vision | Identity | Values | Story | Beliefs

Learn more about Immanuel: our vision and values and our story so far, as well as the beliefs that ground and shape our life together.

Vision Statement

We exist to honour God by helping people in all ages and stages of life know Jesus, grow in Jesus, and share Jesus with others .

Our Identity

Names matter. They shape our sense of identity by reminding us of where we belong and who we belong to. As Christians, we belong to God and one another in Jesus Christ. One of the names given to Jesus in the Bible is Immanuel, which means "God with us." We are named Immanuel because God’s presence in Jesus Christ shapes and sustains our life, worship, and mission. Through him, God forgives and gives new life to lost and broken people, makes us grow in his truth and goodness, and sends us in the power of his Spirit to share this hope with our city.

Core Values

  1. Committed to Scripture: The Bible is God’s written and living Word. We believe that it is all together true and trustworthy. We are committed to helping people of all ages hear and understand God’s Word, rejoice in its goodness, and respond to it in faith and loving obedience.

  2. Gospel Centered: The good news of who God is and what he has done for us in Jesus is the unchanging truth that shapes every aspect of our life and witness at Immanuel. The Church is called to proclaim the biblical Gospel with clarity and conviction in every generation.

  3. Formative Worship: Our beliefs and desires are always being shaped and formed by what we do and the stories we believe and tell. At Immanuel, our patterns of shared prayer and worship are Gospel-shaped and shape us in the Gospel story as we gather in the power of the Holy Spirit to hear God’s Word, pray, praise, and receive the sacraments of Baptism and Holy Communion.

  4. Whole-Life Discipleship: As the Church, we regularly gather to worship God and to be strengthened and equipped to serve him faithfully in our day-to-day lives. Our households, places of work, and local communities are the contexts where God shapes us in his image and calls us to love him and share Jesus with others.

  5. Discipling Children and Families: At Immanuel, we believe that God delights in children and welcomes them into his kingdom. We are committed to helping whole families and households grow in their knowledge and love of God and become deeply rooted in Christ. We do this as brothers and sisters in Christ who have been adopted into God’s family, the Church.

  6. Generous Witness: In what we say and by how we live, we are called to bear witness to the good news of great joy that is for all people. Since God welcomes us in Christ and pours out the riches of his grace, we are called to open our Church, our homes, and our lives, giving generously from what we have been given to love, welcome, and serve our neighbours.

  7. Training and Sending: We believe that local churches thrive when they are committed to sacrificially building up the whole body of Christ while loving and serving the place where God has planted them. That is why we are committed to training and sending people to confidently and faithfully pursue their various vocations in ways that will serve our city and strengthen the worship and witness of God’s Church in Winnipeg and beyond.

Our Story: Origin and Trajectory

Immanuel Winnipeg is part of a global family of Anglican churches committed to guarding the unchanging truth of God. We are grounded in the Reformed tradition, embracing the sufficiency and authority of Scripture and the message that we are saved by grace through faith in Jesus Christ to the glory of God.

Winnipeg is our home. We want to establish a plan for raising up and training leaders who can plant other faithful churches that will fill our city with the truth of God’s Word and bring people into the fullness of his life and joy.

Our Beliefs

As part of God’s one holy, catholic, and apostolic Church, we affirm the ecumenical creeds of the Church.

As Anglicans, committed to the truth and authority of Scripture, and the Reformed roots of our tradition, we also uphold the foundational principals and theological standards of Anglican belief expressed in the Thirty-Nine Articles (Anglican Doctrine) and the Book of Common Prayer (Anglican Devotion and Discipline).

As members of GAFCON and the global renewal of biblical Anglican belief and mission, we affirm the Jerusalem Declaration and the Fundamental Declarations of the Anglican Church in North America.