Since she was a little girl, Irene Hanssen wanted to be a nurse. She attended, and graduated from, the Lutheran Hospital School of Nursing from 1958-1961. Her first job was working nights in the newborn nursery, when there was no such thing as a neon…
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Elaine Olson, a spiritual director and retired pastor, will speak at St. Paul on two Sundays, Oct. 14 and 21, about compassion. Her sessions will be during Sunday morning learning, 10:20-11:05 a.m. How did you become interested in compassion? Years a…
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Editor’s note: Ninth-graders at St. Paul are sharing their faith stories as part of confirmation. Come and hear their stories on Sunday mornings, 10:20-11:05 a.m., through Oct. 14, in Fellowship Hall. This is Ben Eckman’s story. I have always been to…
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A woman who has dedicated her life to serving others as a health professional and community volunteer will be St. Paul’s next pastoral residency administrator. Beth Laureijs of Bettendorf will begin her work in October. She will oversee all administr…
Each fall, the St. Paul congregation hosts the community-wide Faith & Life Series. The church brings persons of national stature to the Quad Cities – sparking new ideas about what it means to live faithfully. This event reflects St. Paul’s missio…
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Editor’s note: Ninth-graders at St. Paul are sharing their faith stories as part of confirmation. Come and hear their stories on Sunday mornings, 10:20-11:05 a.m., through Oct. 14, in Fellowship Hall. Hi, my name is Lauren Anderson and my faith story…
Emilyne Slagle is the leader of the Quad Cities’ annual walk in support of the National Alliance on Mental Illness. The walk is set for this Saturday, Sept. 23, at Modern Woodman Park, 9:30 a.m. A team of St. Paul people, with bright yellow shirts wi…
Faith stories, the culmination of the confirmation experience, are a 2-3 minute presentation. During this time, teenagers will speak about how they see God at work in the world and in their individual lives. Faith stories will be shared during the Su…
St. Paul will host church leaders from the Southeastern Iowa Synod of the ELCA for the annual Fall Theological Conference, Sept. 23-25. “Leadership and Innovation” is the theme. From Sunday evening-Tuesday afternoon, clergy will take part in a variet…
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Crammed into a taxi, then a van, then a bus bumping along the roads of Uganda, Todd Byerly and a friend Yoeza Mnzava, made their way from the airport in the capitol city of Kampala to the Kyaka II refugee settlement. Pronounced Chaka Two, the settlem…
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Editor’s note: Thompson Teasdale is a student at Grinnell College. He is spending the semester in a humanities research seminar at Chicago’s Newberry Library, an independent research library. This summer, he completed a mural for Madison Elementary S…
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A kid at school first introduced Liam Peitscher to Pokemon, a game with all sorts of whimsical characters, a couple of years ago. Then, this past year, when construction at his school meant no playground, Liam and a group of friends played a lot of P…