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…
With summer camp now over, Camp Shalom will begin a noticeable change. The camp, near Maquoketa, Iowa, has approximately 30 acres of grass that staff and volunteers mow each week with a supply of fuel and sturdy mowers. But this fall, about a third o…
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St. Paul’s spirit of teaching and learning carries through to two internship programs for college students – one in communications and one in youth ministries. Meet the 2018-2019 interns. Destiny Ellingsworth, communication intern Destiny is a junior…
The anticipation of a new school year is in the air: school supplies, back packs, and the eagerness of learning new things. On Sunday, Aug. 19, St. Paul will hold its annual back-to-school blessing at 9 and 11:15 a.m. Students can bring bags up to th…
One St. Paul member built his own airplane from scratch. Another built a career from the seat of Navy P2Vs. Both share a love of the air. Richard Fidlar, retired Navy captain As a student at Davenport High School, some of Richard Fidlar’s budd…
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How can we make the Bible fun, and get its impact to stick? These are the two questions Pastor Kendra Thompson asks herself when planning programming for children and families. She will begin at St. Paul in mid-August as the pastor of children and fa…
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On one recent Monday morning, it was really quite quiet outside the two-story brick building on the corner of 15th and Ripley streets in Davenport. The sun shone down. The birds chirped. The hostas and milkweed planted outside rustled in the breeze….
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As a mother of two young children, wife of the life of the party, choir director of 4- and 5-year olds, and preschool music teacher, I have a high tolerance for noise. There’s a lot of noise in our lives. Much of our daily noise is joyful and peppere…
As superintendents and golf pros, these St. Paul people choose golf as a profession. Every single one of them experienced golf as a child. No matter the exact age or circumstance, Eric Drane, Ike Hurning, Alex Stuedemann, and Erin Wikoff all encounte…