Who we are at Saint Paul's:

• Our Mission Statement confirms that:
  We welcome all, and seek to share, serve, and celebrate the love of Jesus Christ.

• We worship at Saturday evening and Sunday services; we have a weekday Mass and Bible Study as well as daily Morning Prayer.

• We gather at coffee hour and at monthly dinners, and we host a Halloween Party and other social events. Our special events include our Strawberry Festival and Christmas Bazaar.

• The St. Paul’s family is diverse:

  • We are third-generation St. Paul’s members and new members.

  • We are cradle Episcopalians and people new to the Episcopal Church.

  • We’re involved at St. Paul’s as lay ministers, Altar Guild members, pastoral caregivers, Parish Life and Hospitality Committee members, Church School teachers, acolytes, ushers, cooks, carpenters, yard crew, and painters

  • We are nurses, doctors, mechanics, program directors, psychologists, technicians, computer experts, teachers, food service workers, artists and more

  • We work at large and small companies, as public employees and as sole proprietors.
    We ride motorcycles and horses, tractors and skateboards.

  • We love all kinds of music, both sacred and secular. We play in rock bands and in early music groups.

  • We’re working – sometimes at more than one job – and we’re retired.

  • We’re parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, aunts, uncles, teens, kids, and babies.

  • We support a broad and diverse spectrum of social action and political causes.

  • We’re involved in our community through Masons, Eastern Star, Boy and Girl Scouts, Habitat for Humanity, Share the Wool, youth sports, school board leadership, and more.

  • We’re engaged in different lifestyles.

  • We’re committed to growing together as a family in Christ.

• The St. Paul’s campus includes our Church building, the Rectory, the McNary Center, and the Sexton’s House.

  • The church building was designed by Richard Upjohn and features stained glass windows by Tiffany and other artisans.

  • The McNary Center is the largest centrally located handicapped accessible gathering place in Kinderhook. It is a polling place and home to many different community groups. McNary houses the St. Paul’s offices, schoolrooms used for Church School and our Pre-School Program, large gathering rooms and a fully-equipped kitchen.

  • St. Paul’s maintains the Sexton’s house as residential rental property.