Our Mission

To welcome all who enter our doorway, experience God through spirit-inspired worship and serve our communities through ministries and good works.

We believe that God is our loving Creator, a refuge and strength in times of trouble. We know that we are imperfect people in a hurting and broken world. We believe God sent Jesus Christ into our world to save us and give us hope for the future, inviting us to share in God’s Life of forgiveness and compassion. We believe that God desires for all of God’s children to be a part of a joyful community of grace that is open to all who are seeking, hopeful, afraid, lonely, or in pain. We strive to reach out to all who are seeking to create such a community at Saint Ambrose Episcopal Church.

We seek to better understand God’s complex world, to discern our place in it and our responsibility to it. We join together as a community of disciples, doing all that we can to relieve the hurting and mend the broken. We have experienced that when we engage God as a worshiping community, our relationship is deeper and stronger than when we act on our own. The diversity we encounter in community challenges us to new levels of understanding, commitment, and love, and brings us closer to God and to each other.

Core Values

Grounded by the Holy Spirit guiding our lives, St. Ambrose is a church of …
Hospitality, where all are welcome,
Healing, through community and connection,
Homecoming, for ALL who come seeking love and support for self and others.

Our Story

Founding of Saint ambrose episcopal church

in 1967 Saint Ambrose Episcopal Church was started as a mission of St. John’s in Boulder. The goals of the original congregation included spending as much money outside of the congregation as inside, and experimenting with the liturgy. Another goal was to focus on spiritual growth. Communion services were held in homes during the week while the building was being constructed. On Sunday mornings, parishioners gathered first in a warehouse, then in an elementary school for Morning Prayer. As the congregation grew, services were then held at St. Walburga’s, the Benedictine Abbey across the street from the property.

The ground breaking of the church included people from the diocese of Colorado as well as the sisters from the Abbey of St. Walburga.

The building was completed, and the first service was held in March of 1968.  In 1983, the congregation hired its first full time priest, and began growing.  A parish hall was added in 1987, and the narthex and classroom wing were added in 1998.

Who is Saint Ambrose?

Saint Ambrose, also known as Aurelius Ambrosius, was the Bishop of Milan from 374 to 397 and became one of the most important theological figures of the 4th century. 

Ambrose authored many of the Church's important writings and hymns and is credited with advising Augustine of Hippo to follow local liturgical customs. "When I am at Rome, I fast on a Saturday; when I am at Milan, I do not. Follow the custom of the church where you are," he stated. This advice remains today, and is translated in English as the saying, "When in Rome, do as the Romans do."

He is the patron saint of beekeepers, candle makers, learning, and the city of Milan. His feast day is December 7.

About the Episcopal Church

The Episcopal Church offers a “via media” - or middle way - between the Roman Catholic and Protestant traditions within Christianity.  We emphasize both word and sacrament.  What unites us is our faith in Christ; we seek to faithfully follow Jesus.  We celebrate the sacrament of Holy Communion each Sunday.  We pray together, support each other, and understand that - by the power of the Holy Spirit - we are sent out to proclaim the good news of Christ and serve others in Jesus’ name.

St. Ambrose Episcopal Church is part of The Episcopal Church in Colorado which comprises 95 worshiping congregations of all shapes and sizes, theological perspectives, and liturgical approaches. Congregations range from small, rural and regional parishes, to mid-sized and large urban and suburban churches, and everything in between.

We find richness in our diversity. That diversity is in our worship itself, from the most traditional liturgies to praise services and services of healing. We celebrate the Eucharist, Morning Prayer, and Evensong. That diversity is in our music. It is in our ministries. It is in our community. It is in our theology. It is in our political outlooks.

Climate change, racial justice, and LGBTQIA inclusion are some of the social issues important to us and the Episcopal Church in Colorado.