About Us
The Rev'd Tait S. Deems is the vicar of Christ Church Anglican in Colorado Springs. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Theory from Patrick Henry College. He received his Master of Divinity from Reformed Episcopal Seminary in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania. He served as a Deacon and Curate in the Diocese of the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic at St. Mark's REC in Rydal, Pennsylvania. He was ordained to the Presbyterate on the feast of St. Peter in 2019. He served as assisting priest and teacher at the parish school in Rydal for several years before moving to Oregon to spend a year assisting in the building of Anglican ministry in Southern Oregon where he grew up. In June of 2023 he received a call to serve at Christ Church Anglican as the vicar. He and his wife Amy have six children.
Email: vicar@christchurchcos.com
Also, our planting Bishop is the Right Reverend Walter R. Banek.
Email: office@gsrec.org
Website: gsrec.org
Mission Statement Of the Reformed Episcopal Church
Adopted by the Bishops of this Church
December 3, 1992
Revised by the Council of Bishops, October 2, 2003
Built upon the foundation of the authoritative Word of God, the Holy Scriptures, the Reformed Episcopal Church sets her highest priority on biblical WORSHIP and declares her commitment to the work of EVANGELISM, the bold and unadulterated proclamation of salvation by grace through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ (Acts 8:4). In keeping the faith once delivered to the saints, the Reformed Episcopal Church, however, does not believe evangelism to be the end, but rather the beginning of her divinely given vocation.
In addition to being evangelical, she is deeply committed to DISCIPLESHIP, the work of training evangelized men and women in Christian living (St. Matthew 28:20). When the Gospel is truly proclaimed and the mercies of God are made known, redeemed men and women must be led to offer their bodies as a living sacrifice, which is their spiritual service (Romans 12:1). Thus, the Reformed Episcopal Church understands the Christian life to be necessarily corporate. The Gospel call of salvation is not only to a savior, but also to a visible COMMUNION (I Cor.12:27) which, being indwelt by Christ's Spirit, transcends both temporal and geographic bounds.
Therefore, the Reformed Episcopal Church is CREEDAL, following the historic catholic faith as it was confessed by the early undivided Church in the Apostles' (A.D. 150), Nicene (A.D. 325) and Athanasian Creeds (circa. A.D. 401); SACRAMENTAL, practicing the divinely ordained sacraments of Baptism and the Lord's Supper as outward and visible signs of His inward and spiritual grace; LITURGICAL, using the historic Book of Common Prayer; and EPISCOPAL, finding unity with the Church of the earliest Christian eras through submission to the government of godly bishops.
In this fashion, by embracing the broad base of doctrine and practice inherent in apostolic Christianity received by the Church of the English Reformation and expressed in the Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion, the Reformed Episcopal Church has a foundation for effective ministry in the name of Christ to a world which is lost and dying without Him.
Approved, General Committee, October 5, 2003
Taken from http://www.recus.org/
Mission Statement Of Christ Church Anglican
Our MISSION is to gather like minded folk who recognize the work of the Holy Spirit in Ancient Liturgical Worship, to explain how the Church lives and thinks through Catechesis, strengthen individuals' and families' obedience to Christ by Discipleship, and reach a world lost in the allure and distractions of modernity through Evangelism.
