ST. PETER’S WEST ALLIS
Schedule of Services
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Solemn Eucharist - Second Sunday of Easter (Thomas Sunday)
April 7, 2024 - 9:30 AM
Saint Peter’s Church Schola
Hymns and Organ Music -
Solemn Eucharist - Third Sunday of Easter
April 14, 2024 - 9:30 AM
Saint Peter’s Church Schola
Hymns and Organ Music -
Solemn Eucharist - Fourth Sunday of Easter (Good Shepherd Sunday)
April 21, 2024 - 9:30 AM
Saint Peter’s Church Schola
Hymns and Organ Music -
Solemn Eucharist - Fifth Sunday of Easter
April 28, 2024 - 9:30 AM
Saint Peter’s Church Schola
Hymns and Organ Music
Come and Meet Our Team
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The Reverend Nigel J. Bousfield
Priest
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Steve Elliott
Senior Warden/Treasurer
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David Bahrke
Director of Music, Organist
“Fruits of the Vine”
Weekly Community Meal. Saturdays at 11:00am Weekly Food Pantry or by Appt.
All meals are cooked fresh on site and served as carry-out.
All pantry requests are filled on site, based upon inventory, served as carry-out.
"Fruits of the Vine" Feeding Program will continue to evolve and branch out to better reduce hunger.
"Fruits of the Vine" Feeding Program has spiritual and temporal underpinnings.
" I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit." Longtime Diocese of Milwaukee Deacon Walter Vine did just that - abiding in Jesus, branching out to neighbors in need, and providing them both physical sustenance and spiritual nourishment.
“Fruits of the Vine" pays tribute not only to our Lord and Savior, but to His productive branch, Deacon Walter Vine, who bore much fruit before his passing in 2020.
St. Peter's Episcopal Church has been a rock in West Allis for over 135 years.
Our mission is to pursue peace in the world. Peace reigns when justice is present. Justice isn’t earned; it’s a basic right of all members of humanity – strangers and pilgrims, poor and indigent, dispirited and distressed, ill and infirm. We believe great care and concern is to be given to those who are troubled because in them more particularly is Jesus received.
If you are visiting us just for today, enjoy some conversation and coffee and may God remain by your side on your journey. If you are seeking a church home, welcome into our parish family. You're among friends.
God calls us all into a unifying Communion. In a world that grows ever more divisive and judgmental, we believe we are called to be tolerant and quick to forgive. We seek to better understand one another. We appreciate that individuals view the world through many different lenses. We aren't a "right/wrong" community. We are a "both/rather" community.
We act humbly. We understand that the Church is less a haven for saints than a hospital for all others. God freely offers us his Grace, empowering us to forgive and love one another.
We're thinking people. We believe in human reason. God has given us the gift of intellectual inquiry and expects us to develop that gift. We have more unanswered questions than answers. We have doubts, but we also have faith, believing that some things are meant to be revealed at a later date. And some things are meant to be beyond our grasp and remain a mystery.
We worship formally and informally. It prepares us for action in our community - feeding the hungry, modeling tolerance, expressing compassion, and practicing forgiveness with those we encounter each day.
God sets the table and – All Are Welcome. Come join us.
We have designed a new logo for St. Peter’s! The story behind our re-design has historical significance.
As the world settles in to a renewed future brought about by a post pandemic reality, St. Peter’s Episcopal Church West Allis, has adopted a new logo-based identity to help reinforce our church’s position within this ever-changing experience. The new logo offers three major components. The first being the inverted “Petrine” cross. The late second, early third century scholar, Origen of Alexandria described Peter’s martyrdom as being unusual in that it was performed at the request of Peter himself. Feeling he was unworthy to be executed in the same manner as his Lord, Jesus Christ, Peter’s crucifixion was uniquely conducted, upside down.
Set against the Petrine Cross in regal gold are the two keys given to Peter by Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew 16:19 where Jesus says to Peter, “I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.”
Thirdly, we see in the words of Matthew 16:18, “Upon this rock I will build my church”, through which Jesus acknowledges Peter to be the underpinnings on which an entire church would find its foundation. St. Peter’s Episcopal Church represents that same stable refuge and foundation within the community of West Allis as well as the surrounding neighborhoods.
St. Peter’s is a welcoming church for these difficult and troubled times; a place for comfort and safety; a place where any person whether through necessity or from a position of abundance can be fed both nutritionally through the St. Peter’s Pantry Program offered at the church every Saturday, or spiritually through our traditional liturgies, extraordinary musical program, and Christ centered theology.
Music is an essential component of our shared worship!
The pipe organ is a musical instrument that produces sound by driving pressurized air (called wind) through the organ pipes selected from a keyboard. Because each pipe produces a single pitch, the pipes are provided in sets called ranks, each of which has a common timbre and volume throughout the keyboard compass. Most organs have many ranks of pipes of differing timbre, pitch, and volume that the player can employ singly or in combination through the use of controls called stops.
