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St. Paul high school students share their faith stories during Sunday Night Live. Marah Tews is a senior at Pleasant Valley High School. Freshman and sophomore year, I came to youth group a total of three times. I’d like to say it was because I had v…
PALM / PASSION SUNDAY March 19 | Saturday worship at 5:30 p.m. March 20 | Worship at 8, 9:20, & 11:45 a.m. With festive palm branches waving, the mood turns somber as we realize that Jesus goes on to die. Pastor Katy Warren preaches at 5:30/8:00,…
Lenten blessing bags are an annual tradition at St. Paul, where children age 3-12th grade bring items to Sunday school, then put them together in bags to be distributed to others. This year, the bags will be distributed to neighborhood families exper…
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It was a pretty quiet morning at the gym today. As I laced up my tennis shoes, I found myself looking around wondering where all the people went. It seems just a month or so ago, I was scouring the room to find an open treadmill and waiting my turn t…
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Ben Carlson first came to Camp Shalom as a middle-schooler. He’s been back every year – in one way or another – ever since. He had his fair share of mischief and camper capers. Then he became an assistant counselor. He moved up to counselor. Then he…
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My high school did not offer a class in cosmology. It’s a good thing it didn’t. I wouldn’t have survived. I barely passed math, struggled in physics, and to this day do not understand what a mole in chemistry is. The only mole I know is the one that…
Silentor Esthil was a very sick little boy. A years-long infection in his leg would not heal. His mother went to great lengths to find someone who would help her 9-year-old son, and she was giving up hope. Her final attempt to save his life was to ta…
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KJ Rebarcak spent much of her life struggling. A very smart young woman (KJ was valedictorian of her high school class), she was fired from her first two jobs – one at a deli and one at a shoestore. More difficult times followed. She describes her li…
It’s a big week. Yesterday was Ash Wednesday – this important day in the Christian calendar that begins the season of Lent. It’s a day we remember our mortality and the ways we continually miss the mark on living as God would have us. This week we be…
When Mary Trafford was 8 years old, her mom gave her a choice: learn how to sew or take piano lessons. “I took piano lessons for two weeks. I’ve been sewing ever since,” Mary said. Mary is the creative power behind two art quilts hanging in the Libra…
This is the fourth in an occasional series on faith pathways: Service, Nature, Study and Intellect, Contemplative, Artistic, Relationships, and Traditions. Meet four St. Paul people who connect with God through their artistic endeavors: Painting, Poe…
Kit Whan is very much a business-oriented person. She says she thought she didn’t have one creative bone in her body… until one morning she saw something on the Today show. It was a segment about adults coloring. With her sister in town for a visit,…