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OUR WORSHIP SCHEDULE
Sunday:
8:00 AM - Holy Eucharist
10:00 AM - Holy Eucharist
Nursery care for children four and under
available at 9:15 AM
Children’s Sunday School begins at 9:30 AM
September through June.
Wednesday:
11:30 AM Prayers and Holy Eucharist
Coffee & Fellowship after Sunday Service
Potluck Brunch - 1st Sunday of each month
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Welcome to the Episcopal Life of Epiphany
When you walk through the doors at Epiphany you will immediately encounter the joy of celebrating God and Jesus Christ with fellowship and Holy Eucharist. Look closely and you will discover a multi-generational parish with a special emphasis on our children and youth. There is a wide diversity in our congregation that encourages people to share their different ideas and insights on how to grow an Anglican church in a unique community of the South Las Vegas Valley. If discovering and sharing faith, family and friendships are important to you then please join us at the Episcopal Church of the Epiphany. God our father, his blessed Son and the parishioners of Epiphany await with open arms.
What is the Episcopal Church?
In Nevada:
The Episcopal Church of the Epiphany is a part of the Episcopal Diocese of Nevada and the Episcopal Church nationwide. Episcopal comes from the Greek word Episkopos meaning bishop. We are a Christian church guided by our bishops, served by our priests and deacons (as ordained ministers) supporting the work and witness of the majority of our ministers, the baptized members of our church.
We are blessed to have the Presiding Bishop, Katharine Jefferts Schori and her husband, Dick, attend Epiphany when there are at their home in Henderson. She is chief pastor to the Episcopal Church's 2.4 million members in 16 countries and 110 dioceses, ecumenical officer, and primate. Their occasional updates give us an exciting look into how far reaching the influence of the Episcopal Church is around the globe.
Around the world
As a part of the Episcopal Church, Epiphany is also part of the worldwide Anglican Communion, which has over 80 million members in countries around the world. The Anglican Communion began with the Church of England, but has spread well beyond its English roots. The typical Anglican today is African or South American rather than an Anglo-Saxon as the name Anglican implies.
 This shield was adopted in 1940 as the symbol for the Episcopal Church USA. The shield reflects some of the Episcopal Church American history offering up a brief history lesson through its design.
The Episcopal Church was founded in 1789 as a separate group from its parent Church of England, from which the churches in the colonies found themselves divided by the American Revolution. The red white and blue colors are the colors of the American flag. The white field with a red cross is St. George's Cross, the patron saint of the Church of England. This remembers the Episcopal Churches’ roots in the Church of England.
There are nine miniature crosses on the field of blue symbolizing the nine dioceses that met in Philadelphia in 1789 to ratify the initial constitution of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America. The crosslets are formed after the St. Andrews Cross. St. Andrew is the patron saint of Scotland. This remembers the Scottish Episcopal Churches part in our history as it was their bishops who ordained Samuel Seabury as the first American Bishop in 1784. Many of the founders of this nation, including George Washington were Episcopalians.
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