St. Peter Catholic Church is a welcoming Catholic Community in the
Diocese of Lansing,
consecrated to Jesus Christ, serving the spiritual and corporal needs of our
brothers and sisters. We commit ourselves to celebrating the Liturgy
together, living the Sacraments, in a life of prayer in communion with the
saints. Empowered by the Holy Spirit, we will preach the Gospel and serve
the community in the name of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior.
HISTORY St.
Peter Catholic Church is blessed with a very colorful history, beginning in
1878- with nine families gathering for their first home Mass. That was the
genesis of Saint Peter Parish. In 1891 the small wooden Episcopal Church on
River Street was purchased by these nine families. In 1930, that structure
was enlarged and faced with fieldstone. When our numbers grew, we sold the
church on River Street and moved into a new church and catechetical center a
block down on Knight Street. Again we grew and by 1994 the present church
was erected to meet our spiritual and special needs. This created space
enabling us to offer a daycare center to help our young families as well as
the opportunity to place a future school. Our dream of an orthodox Catholic
School came to fruition with our first year of class in the Fall of 2003 and
ran through June of 2010.