by Julie Martin | Mar 9, 2023 | Members Corner
I grew up in Dalton, Georgia, but moved to Wilmington in 1982. I was a member of St. Andrew’s-on-the-Sound for 30 years, where I was a participant and served as a small group leader in the DOCC program for several years. I also served on the vestry for 4 years....
by Julie Martin | Mar 3, 2023 | Members Corner
Jay and I grew up in New Jersey and met at college. On our first date we discovered we had attended the same church when children. Three years later we were married by the same priest who had been present during our confirmations. We married while Jay was in the...
by Julie Martin | Feb 23, 2023 | Members Corner
Rick and Teresa moved to Wilmington in 2012, after having a vacation house here since 2007. Teresa grew up outside Detroit as a Catholic (12 years of Catholic school), went to Michigan State, and moved to the Washington DC area. Rick grew up in Columbia SC as a...
by Julie Martin | Feb 16, 2023 | Members Corner
In 2004 when I married Lou Criscuolo and moved from Southport to Wilmington, I searched for a neighborhood Episcopal church. When we drove to the one closest to our downtown home, there did not seem to be a parking spot handy. I had researched the next closest and we...
by Julie Martin | Feb 16, 2023 | Members Corner
Ed and Alix moved to Wilmington in 2012 after he left his 50-year law practice in DC and Virginia, and she retired after 24 years as publications editor at Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria, VA. They had made a lot of trips from their Alexandria home to...
by Julie Martin | Feb 16, 2023 | Members Corner
I grew up in the Lutheran Church in America, but what often happens to teens, especially entering college, I drifted away from organized religion. After graduating from George Washington University and starting my career in education, I had a renewed interest in the...
by Julie Martin | Jan 27, 2023 | Members Corner
I am a retired Episcopal priest from the Diocese of Western New York. I have lived & served in Buffalo, the city of good neighbors. I chose to retire to Wilmington because my family lives here and also nearby in MD, Taize services initially drew me to St....
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,...
