About Us

What We Believe :

  • Jesus is the Son of God. He is fully man and at the same time fully God. He was born of the Virgin Mary, put to death by being crucified under the Roman Governor Pontius Pilate, and on the third day he was raised from the dead for the salvation of all people who choose to trust in Him as the Messiah or anointed one. (Christ is the Greek translation of the Hebrew word Messiah.) Jesus is the fulfillment of the Old Testament promises that God saves His people. Jesus performs miracles, changes lives, and will return to judge all humanity.

  • The 66 books of the Old and New Testaments are the inspired Word of God, inerrant in their original language, and containing all things necessary for salvation. The Bible is the final authority and unchangeable standard for Christian faith and life.

  • Sacraments are outward and visible signs of inward and spiritual grace. We believe Baptism and the Lord’s Supper (also called Holy Communion or Holy Eucharist) to be Sacraments ordained by Jesus Himself in the Gospel, and thus to be ministered with unfailing use of His words of institution and with the elements ordained by Him.

  • The Holy Trinity is a way of describing the One True, Living God in the three persons in which He is manifested to us as humans: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.

  • The Anglican Church is the 3rd largest worldwide body of Christians responding to God’s revelation through Jesus Christ. With some 80 million members, only the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches are larger. Anglicanism brings together the historic faith in Jesus, the authority of the Bible, and the beauty of structured prayer. It is rooted in tradition, yet contemporary in practice. It is united in substance, yet diverse in expression. We are a global family living out our faith in local communities like the one at St. Peter and St. Paul in Northwest Roanoke, or the one at Church of the Holy Spirit in Southwest Roanoke.

    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.

At St. Peter & St. Paul, our goal is to be a caring congregation where our preaching and teaching is centered on the Word of God.

Our Affiliation:
diocese of Christ our Hope, Messiah Lutheran Roanoke VA

St. Peter & St. Paul is affiliated with the Anglican Diocese of Christ our Hope.

OUR MISSON

The Diocese of Christ Our Hope’s mission is to plant, equip, and multiply disciple-making Anglican churches, and to support and serve their people and leaders in Christian life and mission.

OUR HISTORY

Passion for the Gospel propelled Rwandan Anglican leaders to birth a movement to reach unchurched people in North America by planting and revitalizing churches, a movement from which the Diocese of Christ our Hope emerged fifteen years later.