The Open Door Service at St Paul's

08/28/2025

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08/13/2025

The Open Door Cabinet met tonight to pray, dream and plan!

03/23/2025

Come join us for great food, better company and information about Transforming St. Paul's!

01/21/2024

Rev. Kress gives everyone a reminder that God made ducks to fly. What did God make you to do?

12/28/2023

A new Lenten Study for 2024, published by Upper Room Books and co-authored by Matt Temple, Tyler H Sit, Rachel Gilmore, and Candace M Lewis, with contributions from other notable writers in partnership with Intersect: a Co-Planting Network.

12/22/2023

“I will light Candles this Christmas"

FROM “THE MOOD OF CHRISTMAS…”
—BY HOWARD THURMAN

I will light Candles this Christmas,
Candles of joy despite all the sadness,
Candles of hope where despair keeps watch,
Candles of courage for fears ever present,
Candles of peace for tempest-tossed days,
Candles of grace to ease heavy burdens,
Candles of love to inspire all my living,
Candles that will burn all year long.

12/22/2023

Preparing for Sunday, December 24, 2023 Worship Sunday 9:30 a.m. Open Door in Hickey Hall 4 p.m. Sanctuary · 7 & 10 p.m. Sanctuary Livestream on Facebook · Livestream on YouTube Holiday Office Hours

12/19/2023

''sometimes I wonder
if Mary breastfed Jesus.
if she cried out when he bit her
or if she sobbed when he would not latch.
and sometimes I wonder
if this is all too vulgar
to ask in a church
full of men
without milk stains on their shirts
or coconut oil on their breasts
preaching from pulpits off limits to the Mother of God.
but then i think of feeding Jesus,
birthing Jesus,
the expulsion of blood
and smell of sweat,
the salt of a mother’s tears
onto the soft head of the Salt of the Earth,
feeling lonely
and tired
hungry
annoyed
overwhelmed
loving
and i think,
if the vulgarity of birth is not
honestly preached
by men who carry power but not burden,
who carry privilege but not labor,
who carry authority but not submission,
then it should not be preached at all.
because the real scandal of the Birth of God
lies in the cracked ni***es of a
14 year old
and not in the sermons of ministers
who say women
are too delicate
to lead.''

-Kaitlin Hardy Shetler

12/18/2023

It’s Ugly Sweater Day! Show us what you are sporting for some holiday fun.

12/18/2023

Blue Christmas service is Thursday evening, December 21.

Week of December 18, 2023 Worship Sunday 9:30 a.m. Open Door in Hickey Hall · 4, 7 & 10 p.m. Sanctuary Livestream on Facebook · Livestream on YouTube Holiday Office Hours Monday, Dec 18 - Thursday De