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Clergy Transition
The rector search committee is excited to be moving into the next phase of our discernment: in-person visits by selected candidates. Learn more…
The application process for the rectorship closed on Oct.1, and the Search Committee immediately began the initial review of candidate profiles.
What’s up with the rector search? We’re glad you asked! The process continues, but perhaps not as visibly as with this summer’s multiple listening sessions.
Interim Rector Sarah Phelps announces that the Rev. Robert Fruehwirth, recently the rector of St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church in Hillsborough, will be joining us on a half-time, interim basis through this next (last) leg of the rector transition period. Read more about this in Mo. Sarah’s letter to the parish.
Thank you to all who helped make last Sunday so meaningful, as we gathered to celebrate and bless Fr. Javier on his journey to becoming rector of the Church of the Holy Family in Chapel Hill. See highlights…
Dear Friends, I have spent over nine years at St. Paul’s, and that time has been filled with everything that ministry has to offer. It has included baptisms, marriages, and funerals; committee meetings and hospital visits; moments of celebration as well as moments of grief and sorrow. In conversations in the narthex and elsewhere,…
Based on contributions from more than 150 of you, the Rector Search Committee has written the narrative portion of our parish profile, and it turned out to be essentially a love letter to St. Paul’s, the place and the people.
Read the parish profile being shared with prospective rector candidates.
The Rev. Javier Almendárez-Bautista, Senior Associate Rector of St. Paul’s, announces he has accepted a call to be the next rector of the Church of the Holy Family in Chapel Hill.