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The roots of St. Peter's Evangelical Lutheran Church in Sullivan are sunk deeply and can be retraced to the years 1858 and 1859 when families moved from Preston, Ontario (originating from West Prussia and Mecklenburg) and located on the fourth concession of the township of Sullivan near what is now known as the Mannerow cemetery. Others settled as far west as the eighth concession of Sullivan.

The names of these families were:      William Kreutzkamp, Joseph Bentine, Ernest Leuben,      John Mannerow,     Henry Mannerow, Joseph Ross,    Christian Pamprin, Jakob Schwartz and Christian Lipskie. Altogether there were 28 persons.

There was no Lutheran Church in the area, but eventually after requesting a Lutheran Pastor, the first church service took place in the home of Ernest Leuben (At the north half of lot 19, concession 4). The pastor who conducted that first church service was Pastor Christian Behrens who rode up on horseback from the Normanby Parish. Services conducted in homes continued for three years.

With the movement of more settlers into the area a congregation was organized in 1865 and a log church was constructed less than a 1/2 mile east of where St. Peter's Lutheran Church , Sullivan now stands.

Records show that on one Sunday early in 1865, 28 worshippers communed and by June of the same year, 41 were receiving the Blessed Sacrament. Communing members continued to grow and in February 1866, 56 were communing. By 1871, that number had more than doubled to 124. Pastor Ehinger's records indicate there were three communion services held in 1872, with an average of 106 communing. St Peter's first resident pastor was Pastor G. Schambach and during his pastorate here, on October 20, 1874, he was married in the newly-erected log church.

St. Peter's log church stood six-tenths of a kilometre east of our present stone structure, which was built in 1881.

The dedication service for the stone church was held on January 15, 1882, following a brief service of closing the log church. The congregation assembled at 9 o'clock in the morning in the old log church. After the second verse of the hymn, "Now Thank We All Our God" (Click to play.), Pastor C.A. Graepp read Psalm 118:24-25, and closed with a prayer of thanks to the Triune and faithful God for all the blessings in the old church, and asked for new blessings for this day and all eternity. The beautiful verse of the hymn, "Lord, Dismiss Us With Thy Blessing", ended the closing service and all those present went to the new church. Pastor Graepp recorded that many of the 600 - 700 people had to stand throughout the service because there was no more seating room. ... MORE TO COME SOON!