Welcome to St. Paul's Episcopal Church!

Our Sunday Worship Service is at 10:15 am

St. Paul’s Episcopal Church Welcomes

Pastor Nancy Woodworth-Hill, Bishop Kate Waynick and Father Don Hill

welcomes you to St. Paul's

The Rt. Rev. Catherine Bishop Cate Waynick, Bishop of Indianapolis commissioned co-pastors: the Rev Donald Hill and Dr. Nancy Woodworth-Hill on October 27, 2011.

Don is an Episcopal Priest with experience in parish ministry. He describes his passion as sharing and hearing stories (personal stories and stories of faith) in helpful, humorous and healing ways. He sees this present and active in preaching, in Liturgy, in Pastoral Care and in reaching out the local community.

Nancy has been a lay professional in the church since 1984 working in music, liturgy, Christian Formation and education. Her passion is making connections, untangling and reweaving. She does this with fibres and fabrics — as a weaver, spinner, knitter and quilter. She also does it in terms of helping to plan liturgy which connects the scriptures with people’s lives. In education she works to help people connect with one another and with the teachings of their faith. She helps create experiences that help form us in Christ connecting us to our source of love, and light and grace.

Nancy and Don both grew up in Buffalo, NY. They have two adult sons and they are” owned” by two elder cats, (Emma and Grace who are sisters) who allow Don and Nancy to attend to their needs. The eldest son, Joe, has taught English in a high school in Japan for 5 years, was recently married and lives in Kyoto. Their younger son, Chris, just finished a Master’s Degree in sports administration and is doing a year’s internship at Harvard before seeking a job in a college athletic department.

Don is a graduate of the State University College at Buffalo and Bexley Hall Seminary. He has training in Appreciative Inquiry Leadership & Interim Ministry, and is a Board Certified Chaplain with many years of parish ministry experience. Nancy has PhD from the University of Buffalo, a Master’s degree from Christ the King Seminary and a Master’s degree in Liturgical Studies from Notre Dame. Nancy, who is also trained in Appreciative Inquiry, is studying spiritual direction and has written a book on spirituality that is awaiting publication. They are eagerly looking forward to getting to know the people of St Paul’s

An Ancient Church, Catholic and Reformed

The roots of the Episcopal Church go back to the time of the Roman Empire when Christianity entered the Roman province of Britain. Through the influences of St Alban, St Illtud, St Ninian, St Patrick and, later, St Augustine, St Aidan and St Cuthbert, the Church of England developed, acknowledging the authority of the Pope until the Reformation in the 16th century.

The religious settlement that eventually emerged in the reign of Elizabeth I gave our mother church, the Church of England the distinctive identity that it has retained to this day. It resulted in a Church that consciously retained a large amount of continuity with the Church of the Patristic and Medieval periods in terms of its use of the catholic creeds, its pattern of ministry, its buildings and aspects of its liturgy, but which also embodied Protestant insights in its theology and in the overall shape of its liturgical practice. The way that this is often expressed is by saying that the EpiscopalChurch is both 'catholic and reformed.'

The changes that have taken place in the Episcopal over the centuries have been many and various. What has remained constant, however, has been the Church's commitment to the faith 'uniquely revealed in the Holy Scriptures and set forth in the catholic creeds,' its maintenance of the traditional three fold order of ministry, and its determination to bring the grace of God to the whole nation through word and sacrament in the power of the Holy Spirit.

We are the church of Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, Elizabeth II, Prince William and Catharine, George Washington, Betsy Ross, Thomas Jefferson, Bono,Emily Bronte, George H.W. Bush, Charles Darwin, Duke Ellington, Gerald. R. Ford, Jerry Garcia, C.S. Lewis, Issac Newton,Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt, John Steinbeck, Desmond Tutu and many humanitarians, leaders of walks of life, scholars, and thinkers.

We believe in an open door to all who seek Jesus, our Lord.

We are founded on the principles of REASON, SCRIPTURE and TRADITION.

A parish of the Episcopal Diocese of Indianapolis

321 East Market Street

Jeffersonville, IN 47130

(812) 282-1108