Our Church

Saint Cleophas Outreach Ministry is an independent sacramental parish serving the Martinsville and Collinsville region of Virginia under the pastoral care of Rev. Fr. Mychal Gallop, our Vicar. We are part of the independent sacramental movement — self-governing Christian communities that maintain the historic liturgical and sacramental life of the Church.

Our roots are Anglican. We worship using the liturgy of the Anglican tradition — the 1979 Book of Common Prayer, the 1662 Lectionary, and the Hymnal 1982 — reverent, sacramental worship centered on the Holy Eucharist and open to all.

Our name and mission are drawn from the story of Saint Cleophas, the disciple who walked the road to Emmaus and encountered the risen Christ in a stranger. That story — of walking alongside, of opening the scriptures, of recognizing Christ in the breaking of bread — is the heartbeat of everything we do.

Saint Cleophas Outreach Ministry worships in the Anglican liturgical tradition. Our worship is drawn from the historic forms of Anglican prayer and is centered on the Holy Eucharist as the principal act of Christian worship.

We use the Book of Common Prayer (1979), the 1662 Lectionary, and the Hymnal 1982 — resources that connect our community to the rich heritage of Anglican liturgy and to the broader sweep of Catholic tradition from which that liturgy flows. These forms of worship are reverent and structured, yet accessible to newcomers and those who have never experienced liturgical worship before.

This Anglican liturgical practice is the parish's own expression of sacramental worship, held in continuity with the historic tradition from which it flows. At Saint Cleophas, the Anglican rite is our home.

Saint Cleophas Outreach Ministry is dedicated to proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus Christ through reverent worship, compassionate presence, and community-based outreach — with particular attention to those who experience poverty, housing insecurity, social isolation, or who have found the doors of the Church difficult to enter.

We are inspired by our patron, Saint Cleophas, who walked the road to Emmaus not knowing the stranger beside him was the risen Lord. Our calling is to walk that same road with our neighbors — to open the scriptures together, to break bread at the Lord's table, and to recognize Christ in every face we meet.

Ours is a parish of radical welcome: all are invited to the table, no one is turned away, and every person is treated with the dignity that belongs to one made in the image of God.