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The business office at St. Paul is in a season of change: a new face, a new title, and a farewell. Welcome Rachel Wollett, business office assistant Rachel and her family came to St. Paul in 2011, looking for more youth programs. “St. Paul had exactl…
One St. Paul family expands their faith formation through adaptive learning program. Evan Beckman asks questions now. It’s a simple thing, but it means everything to his parents. When the now sixth grader used to walk into St. Paul on Sunday mornings…
“It is another of life’s great mysteries that sadness and joy can coexist so compatibly with one another.” These words, spoken by a mysterious older man named Theo, sit at the heart of a quiet, powerful novel that has been capturing readers and invit…
Psst. Can I share something in confidence with you? Off the record? Just between you and me… Privately… Not for publication? All right, here it is. I think confidentiality is overrated. Sometimes dangerous even. Have you ever wondered why we are…
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As part of Confirmation at St. Paul, ninth-graders are invited to reflect on their faith and share where they see God at work in their lives and in the world. During three Sundays in the fall, they share these reflections with the congregation as par…
Fall Start-up means we return to the fullness of our Sunday morning learning for all ages and worship life. Learning takes place from 10:15-11 a.m. KIDS The classroom journey begins at age 3. Weekly check-in will take place in Lower Commons for ages…
Confirmation gets underway for St. Paul youth, with Wednesday gatherings beginning Sept. 9. The journey includes fall retreats and culminates in ninth-graders sharing their Faith Stories with the congregation on three upcoming Sundays. Confirmation F…
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Justin Marquis (pronounced “marquee”) joined the staff in August, bringing a philosophy professor’s curiosity, a semi-cross-country bike tour’s worth of patience, and a conviction that church can hold both its history and its future at once. Justin s…
The Guerin family has spent years serving alongside Russ and Jeannine Johnson, and their family, at Hope at the Brick House — and one gaga ball pit later, the connection runs deeper than ever. On a Friday night on the west end of Davenport, a buildin…
One St. Paul family finds fun, friends, and family on the Rock River through the Backwater Gamblers water ski show. Bridget Berger grew up in Westosha, Wis., where she did gymnastics and 4-H and developed an athlete’s sense of balance and body awaren…
Behind every worship service are the people who show up to make it happen. Saturday evening or Sunday morning, the doors of St. Paul are unlocked and the lights come up one section at a time. Coffee brews. Someone from the tech team tests the slides…
This fall, St. Paul children’s ministries launches Godly Play, a curriculum rooted in more than four decades of research, shaping faith formation in churches across the country. Director of children’s ministries Abbey Cathelyn has been working with t…