OUR STORY

THE BEGINNING

The First Presbyterian Church of Lapeer came into being on July 21, 1833 when a small group of nine pioneers met to discuss the feasibility of forming a church at Lapeer County Site. Lapeer County Site had been surveyed in 1826, and the first settlers came to the area in 1831. In 1833 when the church was organized there were 30 houses in Lapeer. The first known religious service in Lapeer community is reported to have been conducted by Dr. Minor Turrill in the summer of 1832 when a group of people gathered under a pine tree near what is now the southwest comer of Nepessing and Saginaw Streets.

The first church organization was known as the Congregational Society, and was composed of a group of worshipers in Lapeer and in Farmers Creek. Later, in 1842, the Lapeer church was known as Congregational - Presbyterian. The current building was erected in 1911 and is the oldest organized church in Lapeer County as well as the oldest in Lake Huron Presbytery.