Archive for 2024
Stewardship 2024 – Thank You!
Dear Friends, Our pilgrim has come home to St. Paul’s and with him some $363,132. While we were shy of the $430.000 goal, we are very proud and pleased at the generosity that got us here. Now comes the hard part as the Budget team tries to assess whether what we have given will adequately […]
Continue ReadingStewardship- Cate Hahn
As I reflect on St Paul’s, I am reminded of how much my experience here has shaped my life. The chorister program in particular has impacted and enriched me in so many ways. When I joined the choir in 2nd grade I immediately felt like I belonged. The choir director always made me feel welcome […]
Continue ReadingStewardship – Ginny Balser
Back in early September when our small but dedicated Stewardship team was continuing our weekly discussions and getting down to the nitty gritty of scheduling meetings and announcements and checkpoints, I volunteered to write the stewardship reflection for this week. I was planning to tell my finding St. Paul’s story, to share how vital the […]
Continue ReadingElection Day Letter from Fr. Daniel
A letter to the parish from Fr. Daniel after Election Day: I am writing this on Election Day, after morning prayer in the church. It will of course be a day of consequence in an election more unpredictable than any so far in our lifetime. By the time we are reading this together on Wednesday […]
Continue ReadingConvention 2024
I have not been to a Convention of the Episcopal Church since the early 2000s so it felt a little surreal entering the spacious and well-appointed Bristol Events Centre which this year hosted the 240th Convention of the Episcopal Church in Connecticut. Our parish was well represented by our Rector, Father Daniel and Father Paul […]
Continue ReadingKate Parker-Burgard – Stewardship
Don and I both grew up in the church. The church is the way that we orient ourselves to a community and it has always been our primary philanthropic focus when we consider our time, talent, and treasure. When we moved to Norwalk a few years ago we had a couple of goals in mind […]
Continue ReadingJoyce Generoso Stewardship
Good morning everyone,I’m not sure if any of you attended last Sunday’s 11 am service where parishioner Bunny Zamm shared her story about why she came to St. Paul’s. Well Bunny and I go way back, and as she shared, for 54 years, she was the choir director and organist, and a darn good one […]
Continue ReadingDonna & Kevin Stewardship
Donna: Good morning! My name is Donna Glen, and my husband, Kevin Smith and I have been membershere since ~2007. At the time, we lived in Norwalk.Kevin: I grew up in a fundamentalist, evangelical community in NC and there wasn’t much in that world view that spoke to me or nurtured faith in me. On […]
Continue ReadingSherrie Beke – Stewardship
Bow down thy ear O Lord hear me: for I am poor and needy. Psalm 86 We belong and we are loved. When our grandson Phoenix was born he came too early and was very very ill. Our family gathered together to support and comfort each other. We prayed – a lot And we hoped. […]
Continue ReadingCecil Wade – Stewardship 2025
“Each of you must give as you have made up your mind, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.” 2 Corinthians 9:7 (NRSVA) When Amy and I first came to St Paul’s three years ago, I had an unusual experience: I felt that I had arrived at home. It wasn’t just […]
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