Prince of Peace Lutheran Church, San Diego

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Prince of Peace Lutheran Church in Allied Gardens, San Diego, has held services at 6801 Easton Court since the congregation organized on December 31, 1955, making it one of the longest-operating LCMS parishes in the eastern San Diego neighborhoods. The church belongs to the Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod, a denomination of approximately two million baptized members and more than 6,000 congregations nationwide. Rev. Paul Luther Willweber serves as sole pastor, leading a confirmed membership of 45 and an average weekly attendance of 35 through the Pacific Southwest District's V-Circuit. Family programming connects to the broader childcare network in the area, and Sagebrush Children's Center on Greenbrier Avenue serves the same Allied Gardens families that attend Sunday worship at Prince of Peace. Worship follows the traditional LCMS liturgical order, with hymns drawn from the Lutheran Service Book and a theology rooted in the inerrancy of Scripture and the Lutheran Confessions. The Allied Gardens campus sits in the family-residential grid east of Waring Road in the 92120 ZIP, and the congregation draws from the mid-century housing tracts between the I-8 corridor and the hills rising toward Del Cerro. Youth and confirmation instruction runs through the academic year, and the church's location a half-mile south of Patrick Henry High School on Park Ridge Boulevard places it within reach of Allied Gardens students and their families. The property includes a free parking lot, wheelchair-accessible entrance and seating, and an assistive-hearing loop system for congregants with hearing loss. The congregation holds EIN 95-3129895 with an IRS ruling year of 1941, reflecting the Missouri Synod's blanket group exemption that covers all member parishes under a single federal tax determination.