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Holy Trinity began modestly and organically when a group of folks who lived in Chatham County began to gather regularly to share life as friends and fellow followers of Jesus who worship in the Anglican tradition. In the early 2010s, the group began to grow in the conviction that God was calling them to plant a faithful, vibrant Anglican church in the area.
Holy Trinity’s first services were above a bar in Pittsboro in 2011. Since then, the church has worshiped in various locations in Chatham County and the Chapel Hill area, including a year-long stint outside during the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic. In 2021, the Lord provided Holy Trinity with something totally unprecedented in its decade-long history: a single facility that serves as the church’s hub for worship, discipleship, and outreach to the community (located on 15 501 just across the highway from Southern Village).
Despite Holy Trinity’s location changes and growth in numbers over the past few years, the character of the church has remained the same. When someone asked the famed Anglican writer C.S. Lewis whether he was “low church” or “high church”, he responded: “Neither. I’m deep church.” What Lewis meant was that genuine faithfulness is more important than style, a mentality that Holy Trinity aims to embody. In all that we do, our hope is that we would be a community where Christians are equipped for the high calling of Christ’s Church: to love, worship, and serve God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, in the place we live.
As an Anglican church, we are liturgical, which means everything we do finds its origin and purpose in worship. We worship according to the historic order of the Church, received through the tradition of the English reformation. We are sacramental, which means we hold that Baptism and the Lord’s Supper are not only outward signs, but instruments of God’s grace, instituted by Christ himself and sustained by his presence. We are biblical, which means we believe in the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the Word made flesh. We submit to the final authority of Holy Scripture, and we acknowledge the continuing presence and power of the Holy Spirit. Finally, we are missional, which means God sends us into the world to be living members of the Body of Christ. For this reason, we seek to make our work an act of worship, and our lives a witness to God’s love.
As a parish in the Anglican Church in North America (the Province), being a part of the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church of Christ, we believe and confess Jesus Christ to be the Way, the Truth, and the Life: no one comes to the Father but by Him. Therefore, we identify the following seven elements as characteristic of the Anglican Way, and essential:
1. We confess the canonical books of the Old and New Testaments to be the inspired Word of God, containing all things necessary for salvation, and to be the final authority and unchangeable standard for Christian faith and life.
2. We confess Baptism and the Supper of the Lord to be Sacraments ordained by Christ Himself in the Gospel, and thus to be ministered with unfailing use of His words of institution and of the elements ordained by Him.
3. We confess the godly historic Episcopate as an inherent part of the apostolic faith and practice, and therefore as integral to the fullness and unity of the Body of Christ.
4. We confess as proved by most certain warrants of Holy Scripture the historic faith of the undivided church as declared in the three Catholic Creeds: the Apostles’, the Nicene, and the Athanasian.
5. Concerning the seven Councils of the undivided Church, we affirm the teaching of the first four Councils and the Christological clarifications of the fifth, sixth and seventh Councils, in so far as they are agreeable to the Holy Scriptures.
6. We receive The Book of Common Prayer as set forth by the Church of England in 1662, together with the Ordinal attached to the same, as a standard for Anglican doctrine and discipline, and, with the Books which preceded it, as the standard for the Anglican tradition of worship.
7. We receive the Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion of 1571, taken in their literal and grammatical sense, as expressing the Anglican response to certain doctrinal issues controverted at that time, and as expressing fundamental principles of authentic Anglican belief.
In all these things, the Anglican Church in North America is determined by the help of God to hold and maintain, as the Anglican Way has received them, the doctrine, discipline and worship of Christ and to transmit the same, unimpaired, to our posterity. We seek to be and remain in full communion with all Anglican Churches, Dioceses and Provinces that hold and maintain the Historic Faith, Doctrine, Sacraments and Discipline of the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church.
Holy Trinity is a parish in the Tidewater Deanery of the Diocese of Christ Our Hope in the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA).
Anglicanism is a global Protestant tradition characterized by a love for Holy Scripture, the liturgical worship of the Book of Common Prayer, and a rootedness in the creeds of the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church.
Our full- and part-time staff oversee the daily goings-on of the parish and lead our various ministries. They are available to connect with you for any reason, so please do not hesitate to reach out.
Rector
David is married to Martha. Both grew up in North Carolina — David in rural Eastern NC and Martha in the bright lights and big city of Charlotte. They have two handsome adult sons. After a stint in computer software development, David earned his MDiv from Regent College (Vancouver). Since 2000, David and Martha have been involved in Anglican church planting.
PASTOR FOR FAMILY MINISTRIES, SMALL GROUPS, AND WOMEN
Lisa and her family moved to Chapel Hill in 2016 after living in Minnesota, India, and Utah. She has served in a variety of roles at Holy Trinity and now serves as our Director of Parish Life. In this role, Lisa leads our small group ministry and ministry to women, welcomes newcomers into the life of the church, and participates in prayer ministry and pastoral care to help strengthen our community. In her free time, she loves to read, cook for friends, walk, and be outdoors with her family.
CATECHIST FOR CHILDREN
After graduating from UNC-CH and moving to Atlanta, Nancy, Nick, and their first two sons Nicolas and Porter moved back to Chapel Hill for Nick’s law practice. Later their sons Mark and Robert were born here. Nancy spent 12 years founding/directing Bible Church Preschool and eight as our Parish Administrator. She has completed 300 hours of training to work with children ages 3-12 using Catechesis of the Good Shepherd (CGS). In January 2021, she began seminary to pursue a Masters in Pastoral Studies focusing on CGS. Nancy loves serving as our Catechist to Children and Families using CGS, a Montessori-based Christian formation method which is rooted in the Bible, the liturgy of the church, and Maria Montessori’s educational principles. Nancy enjoys baking, making materials for CGS, volunteering with families affected by pediatric cancer, volunteering for the Robinson Malawi Fund, and listening to music recommended by her four sons.
Pastor for Music Ministries
Nursery Ministry Leader
Anne Hammond grew up in central Alabama with old oaks, cotton fields, and collard greens. After settling in North Carolina with her husband, Nicholas, she received her Master’s from Duke and began to call Holy Trinity home. As a mother of three, she is invested deeply in the journey a man or woman takes into parenthood, and the encounter with Jesus that is possible in that journey. Anne enjoys the simple pleasures of hot coffee, sitting in the sun, listening to podcasts, and cuddling her babies.
Pastor for College Ministry
Andrew grew up in the Midwest and attended Hope College in Holland, MI. After graduating, he moved to North Carolina to do the Raleigh Fellows Program. He then completed a master’s in Exercise Physiology at UNC-CH and a master’s in Theological Studies at Duke Divinity School. During that time, he met his wonderful wife Kellan. They have a delightfully happy son named Regent and a painfully cute dog named Meeka. Andrew serves as a priest at Holy Trinity and helps college students get plugged into the life of the church. He is on staff at the North Carolina Study Center on UNC’s campus, where he serves as the Director of Programs and Operations. He also has his PhD in Divinity from the University of Aberdeen on the theology of exercise and physical fitness. Andrew likes running, eating cereal, playing drums, and discussing the Bible.
Summer Seminarian
Preston Scott is a native of Nashville, TN. He studied Theology and Ministry at Lipscomb University, where he met his wife, Zoe. In August 2024, he moved to Durham to pursue a Master of Divinity at Duke Divinity School with a focus in Anglican Studies and has attended Holy Trinity ever since. As the Summer Seminarian, Preston serves in various capacities, but his most visible role is Interim Youth Minister. He enjoys reading, deep conversations, walking and hiking, the outdoors, board games, and spending time with his wife.
Parish Administrator
Kellan Borror grew up as a missionary kid in Nicaragua and wound up in Chapel Hill for graduate school. Kellan began attending Holy Trinity in March of 2020. Congregants and clergy at Holy Trinity have walked alongside her and supported her through life transitions like leaving grad school, becoming a wife to Andrew Borror, and becoming a mother to Regent. She loves to extend the welcome of Christ that she has experienced at Holy Trinity, through supporting staff and communicating important events in the life of the church.
Ministry Assistant
Owen and his wife, Addison, recently moved to the Triangle where they are both pursuing master’s degrees at Duke University. After interning at Holy Trinity during the summer of 2024, Owen returned in the summer of 2025 in order to serve as an Interim Parish Administrator, and is now the Ministry Assistant, a role in which he thoroughly enjoys supporting the ministries of Holy Trinity in a variety of of ways. He enjoys a lot of things: playing music, watching soccer and basketball, lifting, reading, early Christianity, all things German, and spending time with his wife and nearby family in Durham.
The Vestry is our team of lay leaders that serves as an advisory council for ministry and mission. They also oversee the legal and business affairs of the parish. Our current Vestry members are:
David Hyman (Rector)
Nicholas Sailer
Todd Norris
Nick Robinson (Sr. Warden)
Todd Granger
Dianne Martin
Katie DuCharme (Jr. Warden)
Luke Brom
Bob Boder (Treasurer)
Kristen Rademacher
We are blessed with a number of lay and ordained parishioners who serve in other contexts but call Holy Trinity home. These folks will assist with liturgical leadership and preach on Sundays, as well as serve in other volunteer leadership capacities in our parish.
THE REV. RYAN GROVE – Ryan is licensed therapist and helps individuals and couples navigate things like anxiety, depression, ADHD, and trauma within the larger story of God’s grace in their lives. Find out more by visiting his website. He is also an ordained priest in the ACNA and serves regularly on Sunday mornings.
DR. TODD GRANGER – Todd is a local physician who also serves as the parish’s Catechist for Adults. In this capacity, he teaches our Essentials course and will occasionally preach.
THE REV. HANK TARLTON – Hank leads Inter-Varsity’s Graduate and Faculty ministry at UNC-Chapel Hill. Hank is an ordained Deacon in the ACNA and regularly serves on Sunday mornings.