Almighty God and Father,

The Heavens cannot contain you, yet you are pleased to dwell in our midst. Accept our desire to build for you a dwelling place to the honor of your Name and for the benefit of your people.

We have journeyed into this wilderness to build our future on the solid rock of the Gospel of Christ. We depend fully on your guidance, inspiration, and grace in building a church that will be a symbol of your Presence, a vessel of your Truth, and a witness to your Love from generation to generation.

Bless our efforts, O Lord! Through them, may those who have ears to hear know the good News of Jesus Christ our Savior. We offer this prayer to you, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.  Amen.

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The Stations of the Cross is an ancient devotion which allows participants to walk with Jesus to the Cross and is an especially appropriate discipline for the season of Lent.  The middle school boys created a NEW Stations of the Cross in the southwest corner of the Taproots property.  Christened the Via Dolorosa, it shares the same name with the actual walk of Jesus from the Jerusalem Temple to The Cross at Gologotha.

Any individual or group can walk the Stations at any time using the guidebooks found in one of the mailboxes at the beginning or end of the Stations (Map). If you have questions about the Stations or would like instruction, contact Fr. Petty at mpetty@saint-peters.net.  The devotion takes about 25 minutes to complete.

Download the Walking the Stations of the Cross guidebook (PDF - 801k) and follow along the service at your own pace. 

Via Dolorosa at Taproots Northside Education Center
4784 Thomasville Rd.
Tallahassee, FL 32309
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In the summer of 2008, various groups met with the architect of our new church building, Bradley Touchstone, to make plans. Suggestions from parishioners were considered, and many hours of work were logged. A preliminary presentation was set forth on Sunday, August 24, 2008. 

Building Process Presentation, Bradley Touchstone (31:28)

Sub-committee Report (PDF - 1.7 MB)

 State of the Church Address (19:45), Fr. Eric Dudley, 04/13/08  

 Presentation of St. Peter's Site Plan, Fr. Eric Dudley and DeWitt Miller, Jr. Warden, 04/13/08

State of the Church Address (22:57), Fr. Eric Dudley

Call to Commitment (12:50), Major Harding

“A taproot is the deepest, anchoring root of
a tree or plant, supplying water
from deep within, thus allowing the tree
or plant to grow and flourish.”

By God’s grace we have been led to a fantastic piece of land for the future of St. Peter’s Anglican Church! We purchased the eight-and-a-half acres (pictured here) located at 4784 Thomasville Rd. with cash gifts this past summer, and have begun to plan for future buildings.

In the meantime, we will use this property as a site for a satellite Wednesday night program beginning in January (hopefully appealing to non-St. Peter’s members living in that neighborhood), for our Sunday night youth program (Real Life), and for special events.

When the original owners built the house in 1942 they named the property “Taproots”, and a sign bearing that name is still visible at the south entrance. I have found it most providential that a church should purchase a property named Taproots. As you’ll see in the description, a taproot is the most deeply established root of a tree, so deeply anchored in the soil that it is virtually impossible to uproot. It is certainly our hope and prayer that St. Peter’s Church becomes so solidly rooted in the Gospel of Jesus that it will grow large and strong and provide strength and “shade” for this community for many generations to come.

Over the coming months, you will hear us referring to “Taproots,” or to our “Northside Education Center.”  When you hear this you’ll know we’re talking about the new property. Pray that God will make us good stewards of this property, using it as a vessel of His Holy Purposes!

Fr. Eric D. Dudley+ 

The name Taproots was the name given to the property by the original owners when the house was built. A taproot is the deepest, anchoring root of a tree or plant, supplying water from deep within, thus allowing the tree or plant to grow and flourish. A taproot, because it is so deeply established, is almost impossible to uproot. When there is a taproot present, even if the tree is cut down, or the top of a plant is pulled off (as with a dandelion), it spouts anew.

This suggests the image found in Psalm 1:3 which says that the righteous person “is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season and… does not wither”. It also suggests the image used by Jesus in John 15:5: “I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.” By retaining the name “Taproots” we continually remind ourselves that only as we are rooted in God can we live and bear fruit.