St. Paul'S Lutheran Church & Preschool

Truly a great church! The pastor faithfully peached both law and gospel following the liturgical Lutheran tradition. The community was also very welcoming and kind. You’ll see all ages at St. Paul’s from baby toddlers running around, to young adults and seniors, I can’t recommend a better church in the area!

St. Paul's Preschool is the best in town! Both my son's attended the preschool as well as my niece and nephew. We put our 100% trust and faith in the kind and caring staff to take wonderful care of our children everyday. Each member of the staff is dedicated to providing the children with the tools they need to be steps ahead of others when the graduate to kindergarten. I cannot imagine a better place to send my children or my family for preschool.

Just visited and if you have a child that is 2 years old or older, they potty train if needed and are considered as one of the best schools in the Long Beach area. This is one of the better preschools in the area. The staff are all well educated, and each classroom follow a consistent and progressive teaching process that includes music, art, creative play and phonics, which of course helps all the children to enjoy reading and creative play.

St. Paul's is where God's eternal, healing and life-giving Word is rightly preached, and God's free gifts, those that build trust in Christ's promises and provide forgiveness of sins, via His physical means of delivery (water baptism, bread-and-wine communion, and His spoken words of forgiveness) are rightly delivered. Did you know that Jesus of Nazareth regularly dined with some really awful, notorious people-- the most despised of His day (Luke 15:2)?  (In middle-Eastern culture, you only dined with those who were in your social circle.)   He purposely sought them out, and He still does today!  Why?  Because he cares for all people and doesn't want any to perish (1 Peter 5:7, 2 Peter 3:9). He requests your presence at His weekly "banquet" so He can feed you (Lord's Supper), wash you (Baptism), and speak to you His words of mercy and forgiveness (Absolution), through His called and ordained servants rightly preaching His Words (Holy Bible) to you, in a liturgical worship service, for the building and fortifying of your trust in Him and in His promises. He will then clothe you with a spotless robe of His righteousness (Rev 3:5) and He will place a ring on your finger, honoring you as His adopted son or daughter (Luke 15:22-25).  He does everything for you, for free; it's pure gift, so you can live with Him forever in fullness of joy and with pleasures forevermore-- the VERY reason you were created (Psalms 16:11)! What do you have do?  Just show up!  What do you need to bring to the table?  The same thing the homeless do when they show up at a soup kitchen-- nothing but themselves.  You're like the recently-diagnosed HIV/AIDS patient  who shows up at the clinic for free treatment-- you bring NOTHING but yourself and your ultimately deadly, but treatable disease (sin). You just have got to get yourself there.   His is an open invitation, whether you feel the need or not,  to share His life-giving food and drink, water and words.  The "worst of the worse" (today, it would be drug-dealing, child pornographers, for example) are who He dined with back then, and He is no different today.  He is patiently waiting to serve you, heal you, and give you life everlasting, whenever you'd like to come.

Great Church. Blessed to worship there. Great Pastor (Mark Pierson).