St. Paul

Continued from Page 6D alone, when you feel by yourself, that can lead to certain behaviors that can end up being destructive behaviors.”

Meyer continued by saying, “And so that's why that central message is, we are not alone. That God promises not to leave us nor forsake us and that he will continue to keep his presence with us.”

When speaking about the church’s future goals, Meyer said, “Moving forward, one of the biggest focuses we want to continue to do is to build relationships with families that have younger children. We've seen that families with young children have kind of dropped off the map a little bit when it comes to worship services, or you know, for worshiping and also for participating in church life in general. And so, one of our focuses, moving forward is to continue to build that relationship with families of young children.

“We also want to continue to strengthen what we're already doing with the senior members of the congregation, you know, especially visiting those that are not able to come to worship and continuing to allow them to feel that they are still part of the family of St. Paul.”

Meyer continued to speak of work outside the congregation by stating, “Outside of the congregation, we want to be able to continue to improve the quality of the education we provide. I mean, we already have a good quality education at St. Paul, for our school, but we want to continue to grow in that and continue to make more of an impact in the community with our school. And so we are planning on different ways that we can do that.

“When I first got here, some people would say that St. Paul School is the best secret in town, and I don't want it to be a secret any more, I want people to know that there is good quality education that can be provided at St. Paul School.

“And then also continuing to work with some of the social services here in town. One of the things that I've done is I've been working in partnership with other churches, the first Thursday of every month. Many of the pastors from the other churches get together in the afternoon to talk and encourage each other, to pray for each other.”

“We want to continue to do things in partnership with other churches for social services and providing for need in the community,” the pastor said. “And we want to continue to be a place where different organizations can use our facility for events and for different activities that they may need a bigger space to be able to do them in. Celebrate Recovery continues to have their meetings here. And when I first got here three years ago, we just had one meeting on Sunday. And now we've gone to three meetings where we have Sunday, Monday and Thursday. So that's a wonderful opportunity for us. So continuing to provide opportunities for people to utilize our facilities in ways that would be beneficial for them.”

“Our vision here at St. Paul is to glorify God and to make an impact in the community by being the heart, hands, feet, and voice of Jesus,” Meyer said. “We desire to be disciples of Christ that make disciples for Christ. That's our desire. And we do that by glorifying God and impacting the community. Our hope is that as we continue to do that, people will be able to see that that's what we're about as we move forward.”