Scripture and tradition a top priority
WINNIPEG, MB—People often assume church leaders have been in paid ministry for their entire lives, but many come to it as a second career. That's the case for Denys Scully, priest at St. David's the Faithful, an Anglican church that meets in Winnipeg's Norwood Flats community.
Scully was an officer with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police for eight years before joining the police department in Abbotsford, B.C. for 17 years. After retiring in August 2011, Scully felt called to work in the Anglican Church. After studying in the United States for a time, he moved last year to Winnipeg to lead St. David's.
Established in 2010, St. David's is a community of roughly 30 believers who meet each Sunday morning for worship at Beautiful Savior Lutheran School on Birchdale Avenue. The church is part of the Anglican Network in Canada (ANiC), a body of churches that, according to its website, is "committed to remaining faithful to Holy Scripture and established Anglican doctrine and practices."
"At the basic foundation, we want people to know that St. David's is a place where people can come and meet the living Christ in community with believers—with Christian people who are seeking to live within Him and follow Him together," Scully says of his church. "In a few words, St. David's is a place where people can learn about, engage and experience the good news about salvation in Jesus Christ."
St. David's—and the ANiC as a whole—grew out of the Essentials movement in the Anglican Church of Canada (ACC). Some believers felt the ACC was becoming increasingly compromised in its beliefs, and wished to form churches that affirmed, among other things, the supremacy of the complete canon of Holy Scripture, as well as the Book of Common Prayer as the standard of doctrine and worship.
Scully wants Anglicans who may have become disenfranchised from the ACC to know that they can find a home at St. David's.
"St. David's seeks to offer a home and a safe harbour and a place for Anglicans to come and worship," he says.
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