About Us
Thinkers welcome.
We think Jesus is the most compelling person who ever lived, and we would love to walk with you in learning more about who he is and what it means to follow him.
Why Is Jesus compelling?
Jesus is the center of a remarkable story of love, tragedy, and redemption; a story that begins with a loving God who designed this world to live in relationship with him.
Despite that love, all of us have rejected God and preferred to live for ourselves. That path promised freedom, but it delivered only enslavement. This is where Jesus takes center stage. God resolved to heal the relationship through Jesus Christ. Jesus voluntarily took upon himself the penalty of all our sin and died in our place. Three days later he rose again with the authority to pardon each of us and arrange our adoption to become God’s children.
That is the true freedom we all desire but can never achieve for ourselves. Jesus is compelling because he offers to bring us into this wonderful story of redemption.
Our Values
Emmanuel Anglican Church exists to see, describe, and reflect the beauty of Jesus Christ for the flourishing of New York City.
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Emmanuel is robustly committed to trusting Jesus as he presents himself in Scripture. We are inheritors of the gospel once delivered to the saints and we will give our utmost to faithfully passing this treasure unimpaired to the next generation. Jesus, in the Scripture, calls us to fruitfulness (John 15), and teaches us that faithfulness to Scripture must always lead us to himself. So we will unite faithfulness with a pursuit of a fruitfulness measured by knowing Christ and making him known.
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All is by grace and not by our own efforts or power. Jesus called his disciples to wait until they received power by the Holy Spirit. Emmanuel will resist all temptations to self-reliance and autonomy, and we will live in conscious dependence upon Jesus’ grace in the Holy Spirit. We also recognize that dependence on the Spirit culminates in deep intimacy with the Father and the Son in prayer and in worship and in all of life. So we will cultivate a culture of prayerful, worshipful, enjoyment of Christ by the Spirit.
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The gospel transforms all aspects of our lives into the image of Christ, who is the perfect human. Emmanuel will seek comprehensive transformation in every area of life so that we live in conformity to Christ. This is a constant process and therefore we must cultivate a culture that is constantly seeking further growth into Christ’s likeness through the word, prayer and application to every area of life: church, work, family, city.
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Jesus came not to be served but to serve, and he commissioned his disciples as his witnesses to the world. Emmanuel will unite these two aspects of mission together. We will serve the City in creative ways, partnering with other Christians, and we will also evangelize through the verbal articulation of the saving gospel of Christ. Social concern and evangelism are distinct, but not separate, because they are both complementary aspects of Jesus’ call to his church.
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Jesus is growing his Body, the church, all over our City, and he calls his church to act in unity and mission together. Emmanuel will intentionally partner with other churches - both Anglican and non-Anglican - who exalt Jesus as presented in Scripture. Emmanuel will also prayerfully aim to plant new churches in our tradition that are faithful to Christ and contextualized to our City.
What we believe
We rejoice in the gospel of God through which we have been saved by grace through faith in Jesus Christ. We proclaim and submit to the unique and universal Lordship of Jesus Christ. We believe the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments to be the Word of God written and to contain all things necessary for salvation.
We uphold the four Ecumenical Councils and the three historic Creeds [and] the Thirty-nine Articles. We rejoice in our Anglican sacramental and liturgical heritage. We uphold the classic Anglican Ordinal as an authoritative standard of clerical orders. We gladly accept the Great Commission of the risen Lord.
We are mindful of our responsibility to be good stewards of God's creation, to uphold and advocate justice in society, and to seek relief and empowerment of the poor and needy. We are committed to the unity of all those who know and love Christ and to building authentic ecumenical relationships.
We celebrate the God-given diversity among us...acknowledge freedom in secondary matters...[and] pledge to work together to seek the mind of Christ on issues that divide us.
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Emmanuel is a member of the vibrant worldwide Anglican Communion. Anglicanism, the third largest association of Christian churches in the world, has its heritage in the Church of England. We are connected to the wider Anglican Communion through oversight from a bishop in the Anglican Diocese of the Living Word, a missionary diocese of the Anglican Church in North America.
Emmanuel holds to the classical Anglican tradition. Our beliefs are summarized here:
Key points from the Jerusalem Declaration | FCA/GAFCON | June 2008
Meet our Clergy & Staff
Get to know some of the faces you’ll meet at Emmanuel Anglican Church.
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Rector
BA (Wheaton College); MDiv (Regent College); PhD (University of St. Andrews)
Jim Salladin has served as rector of Emmanuel Anglican Church since the fall of 2016. Originally from California, he worked at St. John's Vancouver Anglican Church and St James Muswell Hill in London. Jim completed his PhD through the University of St. Andrews with the focus of his research on grace and divine participation in Jonathan Edwards’s thought. He and his wife Amber have two sons, Caleb and Peter.
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Assistant Minister/Church Administrator
Clint joined Emmanuel in 2018. Born and raised in Calgary, Canada, he first moved to NYC in 2005.
After time away from the city to study, he and his wife Laura returned in 2016. They now live in Harlem with their two daughters. He is the NYC Program Manager for Street2Street, an organization that serves high risk youth in the NY/NJ area. He also serves as the church administrator.
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Deacon Emerita
Novella has been a deacon for 30 years during which she served primarily as a Hospice/Hospital, Board Certified Chaplain and Grief Support Group Facilitator. She is greatly motivated by the example of the early Christians in the book of Acts and Jesus’ command to “Love.”
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Children & Families Co-Director
Amy is a mom of 3 kids at Emmanuel. She has a MSEd in counseling children and has worked with children in many different areas of life. She is passionate about sharing the gospel with children and helping them develop relationships with Jesus as well as the broader Emmanuel community.
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Children and Families Co-Director
Rachel is a native New Yorker and pastor's kid. She is passionate about theology and supporting families as they raise kids in NYC. After a decade of work in film and TV, she is pursuing an MTS at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary while raising two daughters with her husband, Jonathan, in Queens.
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Music Director
Amber Salladin has a passion for congregational worship and has served on church music staff in Vancouver, Canada and London, England before coming to Emmanuel. She is the middle and high school music teacher at The Geneva School of Manhattan, serves the Arts and Ministry Director for the C.S. Lewis Foundation and is Co-Artistic Director for Inspire: A Choir for Unity.
The 2025 Church Council
Any of the Wardens or Council can be contacted through the church office.
Rector
Jim Salladin
Treasurer
Carol McCormick
Senior Warden
Bethia Liu
Junior Warden
Josh Mackin
Council Members
Jono Eshleman
McKenzie Beery
Jason Bailey
Verloyn Young