A little about
what makes us, us.
St. Aidan’s Anglican Church began as a small group Bible Study outreach in Jessamine County from St. Patrick’s Anglican Church in Lexington.
We began meeting with five people for prayer and fellowship over a common meal in the Fall of 2008. As we met and prayed, the Lord planted a desire in our hearts to see a community of worshippers in Jessamine County, devoted to each other, and to reaching out to the least, the last, and the lost in our neighborhoods and workplaces.
Through 2009 and 2010, we met and prayed, and began to sense the Lord’s calling to plant a liturgical community in Nicholasville, Kentucky. We began gathering families and friends together, and in August of 2010, St. Aidan’s officially launched as a ministry to Jessamine County.
Since that time we have grown as a community, and begun the practice of intentionally reaching out the communities in which we live, work, and worship with the saving Gospel of Jesus Christ. We invite you to join us as we reach out to the wilderness on our doorstep, and to seeing the first-fruits of the Kingdom of God right here in our midst in Jessamine County.
What is Anglicanism?
The Anglican Communion is the worldwide fellowship of churches made up of more than 77 million Christians, owing their origins to the Church of England. It is a fellowship within the one, holy, catholic and apostolic church, in communion with the Archbishop of Canterbury.
The ecumenical creeds, both Nicene and Apostles, are used by the Anglican Communion in its worship day by day and week by week. They are ancient and universal statements of Christian faith. In addition, many Anglican churches follow ancient tradition and include the Athanasian Creed among their statements of faith.
The beliefs of Anglicans can be considered quite diverse, but certain core values unite them. The official standard is the Book of Common Prayer and the 39 Articles, which outline both the beliefs and forms of worship which are distinctive to Anglican churches.
The Lambeth Quadrilateral of 1888 helps to summarize these core beliefs, defining them as:
The Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments as “containing all things necessary to salvation,” and as being the rule and ultimate standard of faith.
The Apostles’ Creed as the Baptismal Symbol, and the Nicene Creed as the sufficient statement of the Christian faith.
The two sacraments ordained by Christ himself – Baptism and Holy Communion – ministered with unfailing use of Christ’s words of institution and of the elements ordained by him.
The Historic Episcopate, locally adapted in the methods of its administration to the varying needs of the nations and peoples called of God into the Unity of his Church.
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Our Leadership​​​
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Fr. Lee McLeod
Fr. Elijah Luikham​
Dcn. Jesse Alexander
Dcn. Jenny Dorf
Our Patron
Aidan was a seventh-century Irish monk. He lived at the monastery of Iona, which St. Columba had founded. King Oswald asked missionaries to preach to his pagan people. The first missionary to go soon came back complaining that the English were rude, stubborn and wild. “It seems to me,” St. Aidan said, “that you have been too harsh with those people.” He then explained that, as St. Paul says, first easy teachings are given. Then when the people have grown stronger on the Word of God, they can start to do the perfect things of God’s holy law. The monks turned to Aidan. “You should be the one to go to North England to preach the Gospel,” they said. Aidan went willingly.
Aidan arrived with 12 other monks and chose to settle on the island called Lindisfarne. After learning the English language, they went out, using Aidan’s only method as a missionary, which was to walk the lanes, talk to all the people he met and interest them in the faith if he could. One story tells that King Oswald worried that bishop Aidan would walk like a peasant, gave him a horse but Aidan gave it away to a beggar. He wanted to walk, to be on the same level as the people he met.
The monastery he founded grew and helped found churches and other monasteries throughout the area. It also became a center of learning and a storehouse of scholarly knowledge. Aidan remained as Abbot and Bishop at Lindisfarne for 16 years. The impact of Aidan’s ministry echoed throughout northern England, as his monks continued his work after his death in 651 A.D.
Aidan is often remembered as the “true Apostle to the English people”. Our parish remembers him every year at his feast on August 31st.