Emmanuel Church [A Member of the Reformed Episcopal Church] The grass withers, the flowers fade, but the Word of our God stands forever. Isaiah 40:8

About Emmanuel

Our MISSION is to promote the worship of God and Christian service,
for the salvation of the lost and the relief of the suffering, in the name of Jesus Christ.

Emmanuel Reformed Episcopal Church, Somerville, New Jersey, was formed on July 11th, 1943.  In the beginning, the congregation met in two successive downtown Somerville storefronts before buying a building at 318 East Main Street.  It served double duty as the rectory for the church's pastor and the congregation's worship facility.  It moved to its present location at 100 Grant Avenue, in 1958. 

From its beginning, Emmanuel REC has been a parish of the Diocese of the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic of the Reformed Episcopal Church.

Emmanuel REC is made up of friendly Christians who love sharing time with other believers.  The congregation has weathered many storms as it has sought to serve Christ Jesus in the Somerville area.  Parishioners come from many walks of life...yet all are one in Jesus.

The Reformed Episcopal Church was formed in December of 1873 in response to the would be dictatorial influence of the Tractarian Movement within the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States.  The Tractarians, starting in England and taking their theological convictions from The Rev. (later Roman Catholic Cardinal) John Henry Newman, sought to do away with the biblically faithful Protestant distinctions of the Protestant Episcopal Church in two primary ways: 1) by restricting access to communion to those who were members of the PECUSA; and 2) adopting the Roman Catholic understanding of how one is made right (justified) before God.  He and his followers attempted to do this by re-writing the method used to interpret the Thirty-nine Articles of Religion, the historic Anglican doctrinal formulary.