Connecting, Celebrating, and   Serving
as a family in Christ; our relationship with Christ; Christ by sharing His love with others.

Welcome!  Thank You for Visiting Our Website.
Updated 5/19/09

Peace Lutheran Church was founded by a group of nine families during the spring of 2005.  Since then, God has brought Peace a long way and we have grown to over 240 members.  We are very happy that you are visiting our website.

 

Peace prides itself on being a family-focused ministry with a goal of reaching out to our community.  Toward that goal, the leadership of Peace conducts on-going strategic planning retreats to identify opportunities for us to impact our community in a favorable way.  Some of those opportunities have included: building an Oktoberfest booth that raised money for sending people to help Hurricane Katrina victims; working with Habitat for Humanity; sponsoring a needy family during the holidays; ringing the bell for the Salvation Army at Wal-Mart during the holidays; participating actively in the Meals On Wheels program which provides quality meals to shut-ins; sponsoring a child in Indonesia through the World Vision organization; producing a weekly e-mail prayer chain that identifies people who need to be lifted up in prayer, and organizing activities for our youth and congregation that provide fun and fellowship for our Peace family throughout the year.

 

It has been exciting to witness many firsts at Peace. Those firsts include: our first confirmation class, first baptism, first communion service, first Christmas Eve, Christmas and Easter service.  In addition we witnessed the establishment of our musical praise and worship team.  We experienced our first installed clergy with Reverend Leonard Fiene in January of 2006.  Pastor Fiene's ministry at Peace opened the door for us to move our worship from Sunday evening to Sunday morning.

Rev Fiene

 

A truly amazing event happened in December of 2006 when the congregation of St. Paul joined Peace.  We are quite certain that God orchestrated the joining of these two congregations.  What a blessing it has been for all of us to have an expanded group of friends and church family with whom to share His love.

In January of 2007, Peace completed the acquisition of 14 acres of vacant land fronting highway 11 on the north edge of Seymour.  We are certain that God has plans for our ministry to grow and we wanted to be ready for expansion.

Another first occurred when Reverend Aaron Rosenau was installed as Peace's first fulltime Pastor in September, 2007.  The installation occurred two and one half short years since our inception.  Soon after Pastor Rosenau began his ministry at Peace, a couple more firsts occurred.  An early communion class completed their studies during March 2008 and the students began benefiting from the sacrament of Holy Communion.  Also the congregation approved a search to find a Director of Youth Ministries to begin that summer. 

Rev. Rosenau
As a result of that search, Brandon Grelle was commissioned during both regular Sunday services on July 6th, 2008, as Peace's first Director of Youth Ministry.  A banquet was held following the 2nd service to celebrate the beginning of Brandon's ministry with Peace. Brandon worked faithfully with Peace's youth during the 2008/09 school year and then received and accepted a fulltime call to Trinity Lutheran Church in Crown Point, IN.

 

What tremendous blessings God has showered upon Peace during our short existence!  It is difficult to comprehend where He might be taking us.  It has been fantastic to see God at work! Come check us out!

 

PEACE LUTHERAN TUITION ASSISTANCE               

Peace Lutheran Church supports Christ-centered, high quality education and considers the Lutheran schools an integral part of its ministry.  Peace encourages members to have their children receive a Lutheran education and consider tuition payments as treasure given back to the Lord.

Fifteen percent of Peace’s normal tithes and offerings are designated as tuition assistance to be distributed proportionately to the school on the parent’s behalf based upon total tuition due for grades K through 12, not to exceed 75% of the parent’s responsibility.  Peace members who choose to send their children to a Lutheran school are responsible for the tuition costs.  Peace will provide financial assistance based upon total tuition costs to qualified preschool, elementary and secondary Lutheran schools.  Annual registration and book fees are not considered tuition.
Qualified schools are: Trinity Lutheran High School , Immanuel Lutheran School , Zion Lutheran School , St. John’s Sauer’s Lutheran School , Brownstown Lutheran Central School , White Creek Lutheran School and St. Peter’s Lutheran School , Columbus .

 

UPCOMING EVENTS

To view our upcoming events, please visit our Notes & News Page by clicking here.

MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION

 If you would like to learn more about membership in Peace Lutheran Church, feel free to contact Pastor Rosenau in the church office at 812-523-3838.  We invite you to visit us and bring the children.  Spiritual nourishment is served family style at Peace!

Peace's Ministry Facility is located
on the northeast corner of Tipton
and Walnut Streets in downtown Seymour, Indiana.