St. Paul Lutheran Church, Peachtree City, Georgia, received an official certificate of membership as part of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod on March 6, 1996. Preliminary efforts to establish the Church and School were led by Rev. Ron Janssen and a small but dedicated group of people. They met for their first church service on June 4, 1995. Their earliest planning included efforts to first build a school and then a church. A call was extended to and accepted by Gordon Stuckert to serve as the founding principal of St. Paul Lutheran School. He was installed on November 3, 1996. A dedication ceremony and ground breaking for the property of St. Paul Lutheran Church and School was held on March 16, 1997. A first open house for the school was celebrated out among the trees under a tent on June 7-8, 1997. Eight teachers for preschool through eighth grades were called to serve, and classes began on September 2, 1997. Unfortunately, our building was not completed. Classes were held from September through Christmas break in seven portable classrooms in the school parking lot with 52 children in attendance. Since January 1998, our staff and students have seen many changes. Three of our teachers left at the end of our first year, and we celebrated the wedding of two members of our staff. The 1998-99 school year brought us three newteachers, a media center that moved from acloset to ahallway, and a floor for our gymnasium. In the 1999 2000school year, we celebrated the completion of our second floor. This allowed the offices, the media center and three of our classes to also move upstairs. Again we were blessed with additions to our teaching staff. The 2000-01 year brought a change in administration as Gordon Stuckert accepted a position with the Ohio District; unfortunately, our media center specialist, Mary Stuckert, went with him. We added a second kindergarten to our program. 2001-02 saw the installation of Dan Palisch as our new administrator as well as the addition of a second first grade class and new teachers yet again. We have been blessed with dedicated staff, church members, school families, and friends of St. Paul who have worked with diligence to support our mission here in Peachtree City, Georgia.