Welcome!
We are happy to have you visit us!
Please join us for worship and fellowship each
Sunday at 10:30 a.m.
Our services and events are open to everyone.
Who
we are:
We come from varied walks of life and
have many and diverse interests. We span the age spectrum from infants
to octogenarians. Some of us are long-time members; others only recently
joined the Faith Des Peres family. Regardless of our individual circumstances,
we all appreciate our church's heritage; one that
dates back to the 1830s when our Old
Stone Meeting House was built during the ministry of Elijah Parish
Lovejoy. We are equally excited about our place in the world today -
a vibrant, moderately sized congregation seeking to broaden our
mission under the guidance of a young, energetic and dedicated pastor.
We look forward to our future based on renewed hope, optimism, open-mindedness
and inclusiveness.
What we believe:
In life and in death, we belong to God.
Through the grace of our
Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit,
we trust in the one Triune God, the Holy One of Israel, who alone we
worship and serve.
With believers in every
time and place, we rejoice that nothing in life or death can separate
us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
-from A Brief Statement of Faith, Presbyterian Church (USA), 1983
"Nothing that is
worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved
by hope. Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes sense in any
immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith. Nothing
we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we must
be saved by love."
-Reinhold
Niebuhr, The Irony of American History