Church of the Holy Spirit (Roanoke, Virginia)

The Church of the Holy Spirit (CHS) is a large Anglican parish in Cave Spring, Virginia, just outside of Roanoke.

CHS began in 1985 as a home fellowship of Roanoke-area Episcopalians whose faith had been renewed through the Cursillo movement.

[1] After CHS had met in six different locations to accommodate its growth—from 42 members to more than 1,400 with multiple church plants in the Roanoke area—in 1995, an independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit called the Terumah Foundation raised funds to purchase land and construct a 27,000-square-foot facility on Merriman Road in southwest Roanoke County.

[1] In 2000, early in the process of the Anglican realignment, Bishop Neff Powell deposed Lawrence and ejected CHS from the Diocese of Southwestern Virginia.

Lawrence was elected suffragan bishop for PEARUSA's Atlantic coast network, where he would assist Steve Breedlove with care for clergy in the region.