St. Luke's Church

         1750 Canby Road, Redding, CA 96002  USA I  Telephone: (530) 223-0513
         Facsimile: (530) 223-0564 OR (360) 368-1307 I  E-mail: rector@stlukesredding.org
         A parish of the Anglican Province of Christ the King (Not affiliated with Episcopal Church USA)

Our History

St. Luke’s was established in 1982 by a group of concerned Episcopalians who wanted to ensure the continuation of orthodox Anglican Christianity in the Redding area.  Our pioneering founding members acted following the eradication of the same in the Episcopal Church USA and joined traditional Episcopal parishes in the North State, the Bay Area and Southern California, amongst many others, in the Anglican Province of Christ the King under the spiritual direction and authority of The Rt. Rev’d Robert Sherwood Morse.
Near Golden Gate Bridge in California, site of the first known Anglican Mass in America by the Chaplain to Sir Francis Drake’s flagship in 1579.

The mission became a full-fledged parish and later moved into its present location, which backs up to Churn Creek Road in the heart of Redding’s commercial district.  Some of our former Rectors now serve in Texas, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Alabama and in Plymouth, England, in the Diocese of Ebbsfleet.  Father Robert Davis, following a couple months as a Transitional Deacon here, accepted the call to become our Rector beginning the day after his ordination to the Sacred Priesthood on April 4, 2003.  He was formally and canonically instituted on August 13, 2003.

With an emphatically positive message of calling the people of God back to the Faith of the undivided Church, St. Luke’s membership is now mostly made up of former seeking, searching Evangelicals who were looking for the Faith and worship of Christian antiquity, in addition to a number of Roman Catholics and Eastern Orthodox.  Moreover, we have amongst us those previously from the ranks of the unchurched who saw little integrity in what passes for “church” at the turn of the twenty-first century. We have embarked upon a promising phase of spiritual & numerical growth and look forward to the Almighty’s continued blessings upon us.

Won’t you join us?

Home is where one starts from. As we grow older
the world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated
Of dead and living. Not the intense moment
Isolated, with no before and after,
But a lifetime burning in every moment
And not the lifetime of one man only
But of old stones that cannot be deciphered.
There is a time for the evening under starlight,
A time for the evening under lamplight
(The evening with the photograph album).
Love is most nearly itself
When here and now cease to matter.
Old men ought to be explorers
Here or there does not matter
We must be still and still moving
Into another intensity
For a further union, a deeper communion
Through the dark cold and the empty desolation,
The wave cry, the wind cry, the vast waters
Of the petrel and the porpoise. In my end is my beginning.

Excerpt from “East Coker” from Four Quartets by T. S. Eliot

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