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183 pillowcases. That comes out to 366 different brightly colored patterns and solids, sewed together by two sisters who started last spring on a quest to offer a piece of comfort to the kids and families at Madison Elementary School. It all started…
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Seven pairs of shoes sat just inside the front door of Noela Zamukunda’s new home. She and her six children, ages 2-16, had just completed a journey of 8,000 miles – from Kyaka, Uganda, to Rock Island, Illinois. It was 9:30 p.m. A few important piece…
The phone call came last week, on Tuesday afternoon. Beth Johnson, volunteer coordinator from World Relief-Moline, was on the line. “A family of seven, a single mom with six kids, will be arriving in the United States soon. We’d like to partner them…
Read with a child. Landscape and garden on the grounds. Eat lunch. Unload boxes. These are some of the ways St. Paul people can be a part of the Neighborhood School Partnership with Madison Elementary. Searching for a way to meaningfully engage your…
It was the scariest thing she’d ever done. And then it was one of the best. Last year, Tegan Hoover decided to spend a semester in Spain. She packed up her things and flew to Europe to be a part of her college’s study abroad program, living with a ho…
The National Alliance on Mental Illness will host its free course, Family-to-Family, at St. Paul this fall. It will be on Thursdays, September 1— November 17, from 6-8:30 pm. Family to Family is a 12-session education program for families, partners,…
Every morning, Dan Breidenstein wakes up on a barge on a river somewhere in the United States. He gets breakfast, sits in on the daily morning meeting, and then gets to work collecting garbage – or guiding and encouraging others as they do the same….
The National Alliance on Mental Illness will hold Family-to-Family, a free class for families, partners, and friends of individuals 18 years or older living with a serious mental health condition. The course is designed to facilitate a better underst…
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Editor’s note: Andy Langdon is the director of youth ministries at St. Paul. He led the devotion at staff meeting this week, where he shared his thoughts on the youth mission trip last week to Cincinnati, Ohio. It’s the week after the mission trip to…
They are almost home. A refugee family – who has spent months, but more likely years, waiting through a strenuous process to be approved for resettlement – will soon arrive in the United States. Last week, 70 St. Paul people came to a training sessio…
One night when Deb Whitford was leaving her office at Lutheran Services of Iowa, or LSI, she heard a noise that she thought she should go check on. She didn’t think anyone else was in the building – but she was mistaken. Deb opened the door to a conf…
For four weeks beginning Wednesday, July 6, St. Paul Lutheran Church’s Mental Health Awareness Team will host a midsummer mental health movie series. Come and watch a movie and join in discussion afterwards. Movies begin at 6:30 p.m., popcorn include…