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In the Very Beginning

The mission started in Daleville, Mississippi, when two sisters, Reverend Vicki Gladding and Mrs. Betty Davis, began offering Evening Prayer to the local community. They soon added Holy Communion and moved the Mission to Meridian for better access. On December 2, 2012, Holy Communion services started at Rush Foundation Hospital's cafeteria. In September 2013, a second worship service was introduced at Specialty Hospital for easier access for hospital attendees.
St Peter’s Mission holds Sunday worship at 10:30 a.m. in the Ochsner Rush Health Chapel, with pre-service hospitality from 9:30 a.m., offering worship to hospital families and patients.
St. Peter’s Mission currently meets in Chapel on the 1st floor of Ochsner Rush Medical Center 1314 19th Ave, Meridian, MS 39301
Sunday Mornings 9:30 AM ... Hospitality 10:30 AM ...Holy Communion

What's in a Name?

As a congregation, we call ourselves, St Peter’s Mission. The Apostle Peter was chosen for our name because his personality expressed in the Scripture describes the spiritual journey many of us have taken. Stephen Binz describes him this way: “Peter is bold and cowardly, impulsive and fearful, filled with bravado yet weak, flawed, and sinful. In reading the Gospels, we see a wide range of response, from his foolish bluster to his passionate commitment to Jesus. We witness Peter the disciple weeping in anguish after denying his master as well as the deliriously happy fisherman who jumps into the water and swims as fast as he can to meet his risen Lord. Though Peter often fails to live up to his calling, because of his humility and repentance, he learns and grows in his discipleship through his failures. Peter never tries to minimize, justify, or rationalize his own mistakes, but he honestly confesses his sins and failings. The evangelists demonstrate that Peter’s own merits and accomplishments do not create his heroic character; rather, he is defined in Christian history by what the love of Jesus wrought in him. Peter challenges us to confront the truth of our own brokenness so that God’s grace can fashion us into the disciples Jesus calls us to be.”
Pray with us that our worship environment will be an oasis in Meridian for those who are truly and deeply seeking God, including those who are in need and those with no church home.

Our Connections

St. Peter’s Mission is a fellowship committed to serving as a positive influence in the areas to which we are called. Based in Meridian, Mississippi, our mission encompasses the pursuit of God’s work throughout the locations where we labor, engage in recreation, study, and reside. St. Peter’s Mission maintains both national and international affiliations, forming connections beyond geographical boundaries through relationships with other Anglican organizations. These affiliations offer a robust network of support and resources that reinforce our orthodox values.
At the national level, we are members of the Anglican Church in North America, As a member of the Gulf Atlantic Diocese, our pastoral leadership is provided by the Rt Rev Alex Farmer. Closer to home, we are connected to the Church of the Apostles-, Eastern Shore, under the leadership of Rev Robert Seawell. located in Fairhope, Alabama.

What We Believe?

We believe and confess Jesus Christ to be the Way, the Truth, and the Life: no one comes to the Father but by Him.
As a member of the Anglican Church in North America, St Peter's Mission recognizes the following seven elements as defining features of the Anglican Way and considers them essential for membership. 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 the 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.
To be an Anglican, then, is not to embrace a distinct version of Christianity, but a distinct way of being a "Mere Christian," at the same time evangelical, apostolic, catholic, reformed, and Spirit-filled