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Recent Posts

Midwinter Lecture on Religious Freedom

What does the Constitution say about religious freedom? And how does that impact how we practice our Christian faith? Did you know that one of the most important Supreme Court cases on religious freedom in recent years involved an LCMS school? Join us on Sunday, February 4th at 3pm for a lecture titled: “Religious Freedom in US Law and Policy: Introduction and Recent Developments” by our own Christopher Fusco, JCL, Esq. Chris serves as in-house legal counsel for the Diocese…

Voters’ Assembly

Our Voters’ Assembly is scheduled for January 28, 2024. We’d love to see everyone there to see the presentation from NJDU participants- find out what’s ahead in in 2024!

Big Turnout for Crafts, Carols and Christ

What a delightful and joyous celebration of the Christmas season we had at this year’s “Crafts, Carols and Christ” with the children of St Peter Nursery School! It was a full house, with many families from the school as well as congregation members in attendance. The activities began with crafts and games in the downstairs Big Room. While some children were coloring snowmen or cutting out hand-tracings for their angel’s wings, others were testing their skill at landing ping pong…

Meet Our Team

Pastor
Pastor Dunbar

Pastor Dunbar

Pastor Jon has been serving the people at St. Peter since September of 2022. He is a graduate of Valparaiso University in his home state of Indiana (1999) and Concordia Seminary in St. Louis, MO (2005). Prior to coming to New Jersey, he served congregations in Iowa and Nebraska. He lives with his wife, Hope, and their two sons in the church parsonage. Pastor Jon finds particular joy in teaching the Christian faith to people of all ages including nursery…
Head Sunday School Teacher and Office Administrator
Amy Van Hise

Amy Van Hise

Music Director
Chris Fusco

Christopher Fusco

Chris, a native of Glen Cove, New York, holds an undergraduate degree in church music from Concordia College in Bronxville, New York as well as a graduate degree in organ performance from The New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. He has been organist at Saint Peter since May 2015 and is also a practicing attorney, serving as general counsel for a major non-profit corporation in Central New Jersey. He and his wife, Patricia Scalese, live in Belle Mead,…
Nursery School Director
Jennifer Garrow

Jennifer Garrow

Sermon and Bible Study Archive

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