CORPUS CHRISTI ANGLICAN CHURCH SPRINGFIELD, VA
Common People in Common Prayer for Uncommon Transformation
We believe God has called us to plant an approachable and invitational Anglican church to serve the regions in and around Franconia and Springfield; and specifically, to plant a church community that is growing in the love of Christ through rhythms of hospitality, prayer, relationships, and service. These rhythms create an interior life of walking with God that empowers us to live a life for God. Our aim is to become a vibrant Anglican church that is guided by the Book of Common Prayer and remains hospitality-driven in our approach to bringing others into a relationship with Jesus Christ. Our vision is to become a common people in common prayer for uncommon transformation.
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Corpus Christi Anglican Church
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Alexandria, VA 22315
Articles Featuring Corpus Christi Anglican Church
In March, the youth of Corpus Christi Anglican Church in Springfield, VA came together for a hands-on service project that combined practical skills with meaningful outreach.
Take a moment to enjoy the annual report from Corpus Christi Anglican Church. This year’s update highlights encouraging signs of growth, deepening discipleship, increasing generosity, and faithful witness in the Springfield and Kingstowne communities. Read more and see photos from 2025.
Our mission is to invite disconnected people into a family that follows Jesus, is formed by Jesus, and overflows with the love of Jesus—and this event was a beautiful expression of that overflowing love in action!
This year Corpus Christi Anglican Church (Franconia, VA) held our third annual pool party at one of our member's community pools. We had our best turnout in the last three years (and the weather was amazing).
All ages at Corpus Christi in Springfield, VA, together focus on fasting, almsgiving, and prayer this Lent.
As we enter into Lent 2025, I want to encourage us to keep our rhythms of daily prayer using the Book of Common Prayer. And, I want to encourage us this Lent to return often to the beautiful and challenging Confession and Litany of Penitence that we pray during Ash Wednesday.
Simeon's prophecy about Christ's light going to the Gentiles is tethered to a prophecy about the pain that the Blessed Virgin Mary will experience in her son's life and ministry.
Multiple generations of from Corpus Christi Anglican Church served their neighbors experiencing housing insecurity.
This year our older youth led an outreach event where we sold Christmas trees to give a percentage of the sales to the Ecumenical Community Housing Organization (ECHO).
In celebration of the Feast Day of St. Francis, many churches around the Diocese offered their communities an opportunity to participate in a pet blessing.
For Corpus Christi Anglican, it has been a year of growth and change: we have had three worship locations in one year, we have a new bishop, we had staff transition, we said goodbye to people moving away, and we welcomed in new members.
Back in mid-2022, Corpus Christi Anglican (Franconia, VA) outgrew our old space in the chapel of the Springfield UMC, which prompted a search that resulted in us moving into the preschool at Prince of Peace Lutheran Church in January 2023. Our church continued to grow and we quickly outgrew the preschool indoor play room!
The chalice and paten feature prominently in our logo because the Sacraments are a primary means of grace and the hope of glory.
The Rev. Morgan Reed announced a few weeks ago that beginning on January 22, 2023, Corpus Christi will begin meeting for weekly worship at Prince of Peace Lutheran School. He shares a bit more detail about how they came to find their new space, what they are excited about in this new space, a timeline for the move, and how you have the opportunity to help them get there.
As a new Mission, we rely on a network of people beyond our core team who faithfully pray for us and give financially to support the work of this Mission. It is exciting to see what God does with the gifts people give!
It has been an amazing year as God continues to form Corpus Christi Anglican Church. Read the Corpus Christi annual report to see all God has done and plans to do!
Christ has secured this for us in the cross, pronounced even our weakest efforts to give thanks to God as worthy by triumphing over death, and receives our thanksgiving and praise as he sits enthroned at the right hand of God. This is our confidence to approach the Father and give Him our thanks.
With a deep desire to support the work of God's kingdom, Rev. Woodson and Fr. Morgan are excited to announce that we have hammered out the final details for sharing space that we have been prayerfully working on for the last several months. This will allow Corpus Christi Anglican Church to worship in the chapel at the Springfield United Methodist Church.
My earliest memory is of Anglican liturgy. As a five-year-old, I was captivated by the way people closed their eyes with their hands lifted as they prayed “Cleanse the thoughts of our hearts,” how they raised their voices in agreement with lectionary readings, how their heads bowed in confession, and how they knelt humbly during the Lord’s Prayer.
It has been so encouraging to hear stories from people in the congregation about how God has worked in them through something they heard, or the experience of partaking of Christ in the Eucharist (even those who would not yet consider themselves Anglican!).
This was our first Holy Week as a new church plant and we had the joy and privilege of joining with our friends at All Saints' Church to celebrate the Triduum jointly. As I have been thinking back to a few of the highlights of that week, there are three that come to mind.
A year of quarantine has only increased the creativity of children, youth, and family ministries. It is amazing to see how churches in the Diocese are encouraging all ages to draw closer to the Lord during Lent, even while apart.
In this so-aptly-named “Covidtide” season, meeting new people is difficult. It seems to predominantly occur through neighborhood friendships or online discovery, which is difficult to target geographically. All the third spaces (e.g. pubs, coffee shops, etc.) just aren’t there in the way they were a year ago,…
The picture with my light ring and computer sitting on a tub of liturgical supplies is such a good microcosm of what it feels like to plant a church during a pandemic: a tabernacling mindset with God's presence as the only constant. Our living room in this picture reminds me that it does not take many resources to make disciples.
On September 19 at All Saints’ Church in Woodbridge, VA, Bishop John commissioned the Franconia-Springfield Mission.
When Jesus builds the church, it is never closed, and His kingdom will never be stopped. This theme was preached last Sunday and was put on display in the turnout of people who came to worship at the very first pre-launch Eucharist service at the Franconia-Springfield Mission. I'm pretty sure they were smiling because of their eyes, but everyone was wearing masks when they arrived!
What ultimately kept us from canceling was recognizing the need that people have for human interaction — even if virtual is the best we can do.
Please come virtually to the first ever welcome brunch for the Franconia-Springfield Mission!
Last Sunday, Corpus Christ Anglican Church held our annual outdoor Pentecost service.