On Sunday, May 3, 2005, after much prayer and discussion, Desert Mission Anglican Church was born. Pastor John Dyson had been an associate pastor at The Valley Cathedral for the previous 10 years, with the last 8 months of his tenure spent as Interim Senior Pastor. After having been ordained into the deaconate in Little Rock, Arkansas, by Bishops John Rodgers and Thaddeus Barnum at Anglican Mission in America’s winter conference in January, 2001, and into the priesthood by Bishop Sandy Greene in Phoenix, August, 2003, John felt the Lord call him to continue in a direction that blended the three streams of worship; liturgical, evangelical, and charismatic.

We are a group of believers who began a journey to worship God as reflected in the Unity of the Holy Trinity. We come from several different backgrounds of worship – Baptist, Pentecostal, Catholic, Lutheran, Episcopal – and we value the worship of God as reflected in the three streams of worship: liturgical, evangelical, and charismatic. We are affiliated with the Anglican Mission in America, a missionary province of Rwanda. Our Bishop is +Alexander (Sandy) Greene, missionary bishop of the Rocky Mountain district.