Devotions will be posted each morning during the season of Lent starting on Wednesday February 22, 2023
St. Paul UMC Mission Trip, Nov. 2025: Witnessing Resilience in Augusta
St. Paul UMC Mission Team in Augusta, Ga. Nov. 2025
Rise Against Hunger 2026
On Jan. 19, 2026, 260 people came together to pack 20,000 meals.Thank you all, we are grateful for you! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36gKZrl55-YEnjoy this personal reflection on the 2026 event from St. Paul UMC parent Annie Jackson, who participated with her family. “Max, Sophie and I have participated on MLK day of Service at St Paul’s for a few years now. This was our first time we got to participate with Rise Against Hunger and it was truly amazing. I was thinking there was no way we were going to pack the thousands of food bags to be delivered, but we did! It was a well oiled machine. We worked at a table with two other women and got it done in less than two hours! I was truly amazed at how well it went with so many people there volunteering. Events like these can sometimes be chaotic and frustrating. This was not that! It makes
Wellroot Family Services/Stewart Center Christmas Project 2025
Once again this year St. Paul UMC will provide Christmas gifts for children and families who receive services from Wellroot Family Services and the Stewart Center. We will sponsor six children from Wellroot. Once we receive the children’s wish lists, we will hang ornaments on a Christmas tree in Chester Commons. Some ornaments will bear the name and age of one of the children and a gift that the child requested on his or her wish list. Other ornaments will bear a QR code which will link you to the church’s website so that you can make a monetary donation. We expect the tree with the ornaments will be in place by Sunday, November 9. If you select an ornament with a gift, please bring the gift unwrapped to the church office or leave it under the tree in Chester Commons by Wednesday, December 3. If you pick an ornament
Bill Ericson Ministry Moment
Thank You For Supporting Our Youth Following the pandemic and Tom‘s death in 2023 I came back to St Paul because I knew how much I would need the church in my future. I knew I didn’t want to do the same things that I had done at St Paul in the past and so a few months after Tom died, I decided I would make dinner and take it to the youth group on a Sunday night. I stayed and had dinner with them and took part in the program. I tried to make light conversation, but I pretty much got ignored. For the first year or so, I came on most Sundays and occasionally would bring dinner. I participated in lock-ins and went on a couple of retreats. And for the first year, still no one talked to me. So, I committed myself to three things I learned