St. Thomas Anglican Church is located in Mountain Home, Baxter County, Arkansas and is the seat for Bishop Sam Seamans.
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The church was founded on August 8, 2004 and became a parish in the United Episcopal Church of North America, which is a jurisdiction of the Continuing Anglican movement.[1][2][3][4][5][6], but later voted to align with the Reformed Episcopal Church in 2009.
The church's current building was finished in late 2007 and early 2008.
In March 2009 three parishes, a bishop and archdeacon departed from the UECNA. Approximately one month later, on April 19, 2009, St. Thomas Anglican Church's congregation voted to align with the Reformed Episcopal Church.
Seamans was accepted by the REC and continues to serve at his church in Mountain Home.
In February 2010, the first missional monastic order of the Anglican Church in North America chose to relocate to property immediately adjacent to the church. Mountain Home was selected after several cities were considered including St. Louis, Missouri; Tulsa, Oklahoma; Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas; and Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The first Minister General is Fr. Greg Mashburn a 15 year retired veteran of the United States Air Force.[7][8][9][10]