Our History

   Since its founding in November 1963, partnerships are the heartbeats of Prince
of Peace United Church of Christ. Founding pastor, the Rev. Richard Brueseke, created
new partnerships as he canvassed the growing Towne South area through 1962 and
gathered a new UCC congregation that comprised 48 founding members. The
partnership of the Washington Elementary School near Kerth and Butler Hill Road
provided a meeting space for Prince of Peace for nearly three years as the
congregation built its current church building. A sister UCC congregation, Hope United
Church of Christ, financed our parsonage on Tealby Lane in which even some services
were held as the congregation awaited completion of the church building in the spring of
1967. We look at our history, and we’re so grateful for faithful partners who have
provided for us as Prince of Peace shared its light with the world.

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   Ever since its early days of development, Prince of Peace has endeavored to live
in partnership – within its own fellowship, but especially in connection to neighbors
beyond its walls. Our connections with the wider church and its many ways of local and
global mission nourish us. In the congregation’s history, members have developed
regular charitable and service connections with other partners in faith around our St.
Louis region; some of those partnerships remain vital to this day, after many years or
even decades.

   Our faith story at Prince of Peace is blessed by partnership. Whether those be
in our deep connections to our United Church of Christ, to the wider church or other
neighbors in faith or to the community that we call home here in Towne South, those
bonds have enriched us. We stand on those blessings as a community of faith, and we
look forward to all the new partnerships and connections that are yet to come.