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Established in 1698, St. Peter's Episcopal Church located in Perth Amboy, NJ celebrated its first service, and the first religious service in Perth Amboy, in 1685. Honored on April 29, 2006 with the NJ Historic Preservation Award.
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Our ministries at St. Peter's include: Stewardship, Social Concerns, Christian Education, Building & Grounds, Cemetery, Shared House, Prayer Shawl Ministry and Hispanic Ministry. The "Saints" of St. Peter's step up to the plate to sustain the continuity of spiritual worship at St. Peter's.
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Pastor Deborah grew up in Caldwell, NJ. She served on the Rosebud Lakota Reservation in SD for one year. After living many places she returned to NJ and New York City where she worked at NYU. She earned a BA and MA in labor studies at Rutgers. She eventually went to work for the Rutgers Labor Education Center helping unemployed and underemployed people. She worked with a support and advocacy group whose efforts resulted in some new legislation and in the creation of the Alzheimer's Institute at UMDNJ. Working with nonprofit groups and churches she helped develop new programs and raise funds to support them. That brought her to Perth Amboy where she developed programs and proposals from 1990 and 1998 when she returned to Rutgers as a development writer. She enrolled at General Theological Seminary in New York in 2002.
Pastor Deborah came to St. Peter's as our Interim Priest on Oct. 1, 2009.
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Rev. Kathleen DeJohn, known to most as Deacon Kathie, is a life long member of St. Peter's and was baptized here on February 18, 1951. After her formation and ordination she was called to St. Peter's to serve as their Deacon on November 1, 1998.
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