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Property Commission
The Property Commission is responsible for the care, repair, management and maintenance of all buildings, structures and tangible properties. This Commission is not a decision body (in terms of decisions with financial impact beyond the scope of the current spending...
Teach Us How to Pray
Beloved friends, yesterday (May 30), the church observed the Feast of the Ascension commemorating the bodily ascension of Jesus into heaven. Also known as Ascension Day, this feast day is celebrated 40 days following Easter and 10 days before the day of Pentecost. The...
Altar Guild
A member of Trinity Altar Guild (TAG) is responsible for setting out the vessels, linens, bread and wine to be used for worship, every Sunday morning. Each new member is paired to work with a more experienced member as they learn about this very special ministry. In...
Breakfast & Hospitality Guild
Our breakfast program is currently on a break due to the pandemic. We hope to be able to safely regather for this important community ministry in 2022.
Crafting a 2030 Vision
Beloved friends, ever since my arrival among you in September of 2017, we have talked about our need to articulate a long-term vision for ministry together. We all seem to agree that we are at a very important moment in our common life. We have been gifted amazing...
Bread Guild
Baking loaves of communion bread for our community Eucharist is the sole focus of this guild. Each baker follows the same simple recipe in this quiet but vital ministry. We believe that good bread is like love - when shared, it connects, it nourishes, it blesses, and...
Love One Another
Beloved friends, This Sunday we will hear the portion of the story of Jesus’ last days among us in which he implores his disciples, his friends, to keep one new commandment long after he is gone; “love one another.” These are words we hear in scripture throughout the...
Music Camp 2019
Monday, June 17 at 1:00 - Friday, June 21 at 4:00 St. Paul's Episcopal Church 310 Elizabeth St., Maumee, OH To register, please click here! This free Music Camp is for youth who have completed grades 3 through 8. Students will meet from 1-4 PM every day for a...
Walking Into Holy Week
Beloved Friends, We are getting ready to turn the corner and move from Lent into Holy Week as we gather this Sunday. We will soon begin our final week with Jesus marking the final days he traveled with us here on earth. And as we move through our events and service...
The Middle of the Journey
Beloved Friends, Here we are in the middle of the journey we call Lent, and a season that is often described as the church’s darkest season. I feel that description of darkness deep in my soul these days as we watch the news, hear of divisions in the church across the...
Caught Up In God’s Grace
Beloved friends, What do Ash Wednesday services, a hospital visit and an AA meeting have in common? On the surface, perhaps nothing. But this past Wednesday they were seamlessly woven together creating one of the most holy starts of Lent I have ever been gifted. It...
We Make the Road by Walking
Beloved Friends- In less than two weeks we will begin another season of Lent. Lent has been described as a 40-day wilderness journey in which we are invited to engage in the serious spiritual practices of fasting, almsgiving and prayer. It is also a church season that...
Love One Another
Beloved Friends, Taped to my wall above my desk at home is a tattered piece of paper with words of a prayer written by Methodist pastor Ted Loder. Those who have been in my offices (at church or home) know I collect things in these spaces- and many of them are like...
Striving For Justice For All
Beloved Friends- This Sunday we will gather after the 10:00 service for our Annual Meeting. It will be the 176th time we do so as a parish. That alone gives me a moment of pause; what an awesome testimony and responsibility in equal parts. We are both the inheritors...
How Then Shall We Live?
Beloved Friends- Happy New Year! I pray as we say goodbye to 2018 and welcome 2019, we do so able to let go of all that was with gentleness and look forward to all that is yet to be with hope-filled expectation. This year, rather than focus on New Year’s resolutions,...
Consenting to God
Beloved Friends- Saturday December 8th a handful of us gathered for what turned out to be a beautiful Advent Retreat. We spent the morning talking and praying and listening. We enjoyed time eating and talking with one another, time for intentional silence, planned...
Coming Home
Beloved Friends, Joyce Rupp is a contemporary mystic often described as a “spiritual midwife” and I couldn’t agree more. Her writing has been a companion of mine over the years and every once in a while, I pull one of her many books off my shelf, trusting to find...
Being Thankful for Change
Beloved Friends As I began my now familiar drive south on Highway 23 this morning, I became keenly aware that somehow, almost overnight, the trees have changed from vivid green to a panacea of autumn hues to now the beginnings of the startling bare branches signaling...