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Worship

Frequently Asked Questions

  • You can expect to be welcomed by a friendly greeter and invited to participate in worship at either our 9 or 11 a.m. service. We also have a community breakfast at 10:30 a.m., hosted by our hospitality team. At BEACHCHURCH, you can expect friendly people, great food, homemade Banana bread, Lifesaver mints, and worship that is Gospel-centered, charismatic, and sacramental. We pray together, sing together, read the Bible together, confess our sins together, share the peace together, and give thanks together.

  • Our purpose is to be Real people, and we are located three blocks from the Atlantic Ocean. So, we support an authentic dress code. If you feel fancy, dress up; if you want to come casual, it sounds great. Throughout the church calendar, our clergy will wear vestments, and we invite others to wear suitable clothing for worship.

  • At our Oceanfront campus, we offer groups for Beach Babies (NB-4), Beach Kids (4-11), and Beach Teens (11-18). For our 9 a.m. service, we offer Beach Babies, and in our 11 a.m. service, we offer all three.

    At Thoroughgood, we invite families to worship together as we grow that work. Those services start at 5 p.m. with lighter fair, fellowship, then group Bible studies, Music, Eucharist, and Prayer. We normally end around 7 p.m.

    During our spring and fall Wednesday Bible study terms, at the Oceanfront, we offer Catechism training for Beach Kids and Beach Teens. We start with a community dinner at 7 p.m. and then go into the Nave at 7:30 p.m. for announcements and then dismiss into our groups. We are finished up by 8:30 p.m.

  • Historically, to be Anglican meant adhering to the "Anglican Formularies": The Book of Common Prayer, the 39 Articles of Religion, the Book of Homilies, and the Ordinal. Those formularies remain important to the Anglican tradition while allowing for a breadth of expression. At Beach Church, we believe that the Anglican expression, as affirmed by the English reformers, was intended to re-form the church back to the sources of scripture, tradition, and reason. As our catechism teaches, we are forming members who are learning what it means to be a Christian. 

    To that end, we identify with the pre-modern expression of the church in Acts 2:42-47. Our worship harmoniously connects with sacramental, evangelical, and charismatic expressions, uniting us with the One, Holy, Catholic (universal), and Apostolic church. Our Episcopal oversight comes from our Bishop, the Rt. Rev. Chris Warner, who presides over our Diocese of the Mid-Atlantic within the Anglican Church in North America. With the governing authority of the Rector and Vestry, we worship through the 2019 Book of Common Prayer while encouraging and fostering a charismatic and evangelical expression, providing a fuller worship experience.