by [email protected] | 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 [email protected] | 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 [email protected] | 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 [email protected] | 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...
by [email protected] | Sep 23, 2022 | Members Corner
We found each other later in our lives. We married thirty-one years ago in Kingsport, Tenn. We have 3 sons and 2 daughters from our previous marriages. We also have 3 granddaughters and 5 grandsons. None of our family members live in North Carolina. Prior to our...
by [email protected] | Sep 16, 2022 | Members Corner
After our move to Leland from Lockwood Folly (Holden Beach area) in 2005, we visited and worshiped in different churches in Leland searching for our forever “church home.” During a bridge game, a parishioner from St. Paul’s suggested we try her church, which was St....
by [email protected] | Sep 9, 2022 | Members Corner
Rob and I met at East Carolina University in 1999 and quickly became friends. We became very close over the next 3 years and started dating after Rob graduated in 2002 and was in the process of moving to Charleston, SC. After a year and a half of living 4 hours apart...
by [email protected] | Sep 7, 2022 | Members Corner
We three share our home as husband, wife and daughter. We are two Southern-born girls and a Massachusetts guy turned Southerner but still a Boston Celtics and Red Sox fan. We are former Presbyterians recently confirmed at St. Paul’s and happy to be a part of such a...
by [email protected] | Aug 28, 2022 | Members Corner
I was born in James Walker Memorial Hospital in Wilmington on October 17,1939. So you don’t have to count on your fingers: I am 82 years old. My home on Wrightsville Sound was directly across the street from what is now Dockside Restaurant but then was the...
by [email protected] | Aug 19, 2022 | Members Corner
I grew up in Pinehurst and spent summers at Wrightsville Beach. It was those summers, with all the smells of the salt air, marsh and ocean that solidified my love for coastal North Carolina. I graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1989 and...
