by Julie Martin | Nov 17, 2022 | Members Corner
Southerners Mike and Mary Flinn moved to Wilmington from Greensboro in August of 2020, in the middle of the pandemic! Mike works remotely for Gulf Atlantic Packaging, loves to fish and golf. Mary is a retired speech pathologist and the author of ten novels set in...
by Julie Martin | Nov 10, 2022 | Members Corner
We met at the Washington Monument in May 1974, and we were married at the Washington National Cathedral the following year, a second marriage for both that has now lasted 47 years,and counting. We discovered early on that we both had a terminal case of wanderlust, and...
by Julie Martin | Nov 3, 2022 | Members Corner
I was born in Richmond, Vir., and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, so I identify as a Buckeye but not, by extension, an Ohio State fan. (Most of my extended family are LSU or University of Michigan grads, so enough said!) I have a BA and MA in art history and worked at the...
by Julie Martin | Nov 3, 2022 | Clergy Corner
Dear St. Paul’s Family, This week alone we have celebrated All Saints Day and All Souls with noonday Eucharists, and welcomed the Wilmington community by performing Faure’s Requiem to a full crowd. It was a great event. Our regularly scheduled outreach ministries of...
by Julie Martin | Oct 28, 2022 | Members Corner
Bob is a native of Wilmington and a cradle Episcopalian having grown up in St. John’s. He is a graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill and the Graduate School of Banking at LSU. I call Rocky Mount home and was a lifelong member of the First Christian Church Disciples of Christ...
by Julie Martin | Oct 27, 2022 | Clergy Corner
Beloved of St. Paul’s, What a busy time of year! The church is abuzz with a flurry of activity. As we prepare for our much-anticipated SAINTS IN THE STREET Block Party on Saturday, I give thanks for all the SAINTS who contribute their time, talent, and treasure...
by Julie Martin | Oct 21, 2022 | Members Corner
I have been a Wilmingtonian since I was 7 years old. My mother, my 2 brothers, my sister and I moved here from Fuquay, so this was the big city for us. I was baptized shortly after arrival at St. James and was confirmed years later at St. Paul’s where I have...
by Julie Martin | Oct 14, 2022 | Members Corner
I was born in Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., on Sept. 9, 1931, the son of Alfred Edwards and Mabel Watson. I was the third of four kids. I graduated High School in 1950. Right after school I enlisted in the Navy for four years. I went home from boot camp and Electrician’s...
by Julie Martin | Oct 9, 2022 | Members Corner
Steve and I are “cradle Episcopalians,” born and raised in Rhode Island. But our paths did not cross until some years later. When our first marriages ended in 1978, we both realized that God had a different plan for us. At that time, Steve had graduated from Marietta...
by Julie Martin | Sep 29, 2022 | Members Corner
Tom and I were high school sweethearts and married the week after graduating from college – he from Penn State and me from The University of Michigan. A Religious Studies major, I came to the attention of a fellow Michigander who was married to an Episcopal...
