by Julie Martin | Jan 26, 2023 | Clergy Corner
On Sunday we celebrate our patronal feast, The Conversion of St. Paul. We will also have our Annual Meeting between the services (9 a.m.). This is the closest thing we have to a “Homecoming” Sunday. It is a day when we celebrate all that is St. Paul’s: past,...
by Julie Martin | Jan 19, 2023 | Members Corner
I was raised in Asheville. My parents still reside in the same home I grew up in. I was baptized at All Souls Episcopal Church in January 1985. I was not confirmed during my high school years like most Episcopalians; however, my brother and I were acolytes in the...
by Julie Martin | Jan 19, 2023 | Members Corner
My life in the Episcopal Church began with my confirmation in 1961 after I had decided that (1) catholicism — with a little “c” — is the only expression of Christianity that makes sense, and that (2) the Episcopal Church is catholic. I still believe (1)...
by Julie Martin | Jan 11, 2023 | Members Corner
Hello St. Paul’s!! Although we are both only children, our immediate family includes 21 members beginning with five children, two girls and three boys, plus one fur baby. We are a joyous, diverse group with a blended heritage and ethnicity which includes English,...
by Julie Martin | Dec 23, 2022 | Clergy Corner
Beloved of St. Paul’s, A manger is a food trough, a common place where all the animals gather to eat. It is the last place we might expect to find a newborn King, and yet, we do. Bethlehem is overcrowded; there is no room in the inn. No room for Mary, Joseph, and...
by Julie Martin | Dec 19, 2022 | Members Corner
I grew up in Richmond, Va., but have lived all over including Georgia, Belgium, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, California, Washington, Oregon and Black Mountain, N.C. I was baptized at All Saints Episcopal Church when I was 13, was confirmed a year later and...
by Julie Martin | Dec 11, 2022 | Members Corner
Although I grew up in Wilmington, I’ve lived away more years than I’ve lived here. After New Hanover High School and East Carolina University, I moved to New York, landing on the Upper West Side for the next 30 years. I wanted to work in the music industry...
by Julie Martin | Dec 4, 2022 | Members Corner
Bill and Elaine met while working for a U.S. Congressman who was running for the U.S. Senate in 1972. They had three children by 1984 and seven grandchildren by 2019. They moved to Wilmington in 1992 for Bill to become vice chancellor of development at UNCW. A few...
by Julie Martin | Nov 25, 2022 | Clergy Corner
Wait. Christmas is coming. It is not yet here. I vowed long ago not to be a member of the Advent police. You know, that church person who makes it known to everyone this time of year that it is not yet Christmas? I won’t do that. Reflecting on my own experience,...
by Julie Martin | Nov 22, 2022 | Members Corner
Susan and Chip Carter moved to the Wilmington area (Leland) in June of 2014. They had previously lived in Charlotte and Raleigh. When Chip retired from a 42-year commercial property and casualty insurance brokerage career they moved from Raleigh, first to the small...
