The Diocese of the Central and Western States is:

A Diocese that is fully Anglican, proclaiming the unchanging Gospel of Jesus Christ and worshipping according to the Biblical and time honored Book of Common Prayer.

In these uncertain times - amidst changing values, moral decline, spiritual questioning and the advance of secular humanism - it is good to know that there is a Christian Church that still offers a timely message to the uncertainty of our time. This alternative is consistent with God's Holy Word. It focuses worship on Almighty God and not man. It is an alternative which is rich in biblical preaching and consistent with the English tradition as expressed by our American forefathers. 

We are making disciples for Jesus Christ in the Anglican Way. We are committed to the Church as once delivered to the Saints, transmitted through the Church of England, and serving as a foundation for effective ministry in the name of Christ to a world which is lost without him.

We are a member diocese of the Anglican Province of America, encompassing the States of Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Washington, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.

In the Diocese of Central and Western States, the form of worship is unapologetically Anglican, retaining the richness and traditions of the English Church.

The Holy Eucharist, also called the Lord's Supper or the Mass, is celebrated according to the 1928 American Book of Common Prayer, the American Missal, and the Anglican Missal in the American edition. We use the traditional hymns and psalter of the English Church.

We celebrate the Eucharist Ad Orientem (towards the East) or as most people wrongly say "with the priest's back to the people". This ancient practice causes much bewilderment among modern Christians.

The point in facing east is to emphasize the essential nature of the liturgy: that of a procession out of time and into eternity in Heaven. We see and taste this procession in the course of the liturgy. The celebrant, standing in the person of Christ, leads the way, but we are all moving together, as a community and as the people of God, as part of the same procession that begins at the Collect for Purity, continues through the Offertory, and culminates with our reception of Holy Communion.

The practice offers a psychological and spiritual benefit. It permits you the worshipper to contemplate the purely sacramental character of the Eucharist and focus less on the personality of the celebrant. From the celebrant's point of view, it permits a more intense focus on the mystery of the Eucharist taking place rather than on the personalities of the worshippers.