2021 Annual Reports

ST. PAUL’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH 182ND ANNUAL PARISH MEETING VIA ZOOM JANUARY 31, 2021 CALL TO ORDER Fr. Brad Toebben, Rector, called the meeting to order. OPENING PRAYER Toebben offered the opening prayer and the Doxology. […]

Click here to download the treasurer’s report, and optionally print it. Note: We’ll be displaying an on-screen image of the numbers during the presentation of the Treasurer’s report, so it’s not necessary to print this […]

While 2020, was the year of the COVID Vestry, meeting through Zoom only; 2021 was more normal with COVID lurking! It has been an honor and a privilege to serve on the Vestry the past […]

Continuing the work of Chuck and Ruth Werth and Ken Bernoska’s innovations that ensured we had online worship opportunities when Covid appeared in 2020, Lee Coppernoll organized the “A-V Club” this summer. The team now […]

Although we have not been actively setting the Table for most of the year, the Altar Guild has met twice to polish the silver communion vessels, and the silver and brass candlesticks and crosses.  The […]

It was a busy and expensive year for B&G activities at St. Paul’s.  All the flat roofs over the choir room, offices, entrances, and a small part of the church proper were replaced in September […]

Common Ground has had another busy year. We started the year with our listening campaigns, involving 1,000 residents of the Milwaukee Area and have decided to focus on four areas-gun violence, education, neighborhood issues, and […]

In 2021 the committee held events in February and June. This included: African Heritage Month Celebration-February Adult Formations on three Sundays of the month: 2/14 “An Encounter With Spirituals: Music and the Spoken Word” with […]

In May, we completed the 2020-2021 term, celebrating three participants who were graduated from the program: Susan Bellinger, John Payton, and Roger Hansen Our current term began in August with: Year One (Hebrew Bible): Janice […]

The responsibilities of the Finance Committee are managing the assets of the parish, preparing the annual budget for review and approval by the Vestry, providing current financial information for the Vestry at each meeting and […]

Choir From January through April our church remained closed for in-person services. Clergy, lay readers, choral scholars, and organists, continued to be recorded each week by Chuck and Ruth Werth for presentation on YouTube. This […]

As we struggled through another year of COVID and its variants with more, yet restricted, opportunities to interact with one another, the St. Paul’s community came together, often virtually, in service of its outreach mission […]

The Planned Receiving/Giving Committee functions as a sub-committee of the Vestry of St. Paul’s. The mission of the committee is to “hold high various programs that will allow parishioners and friends of St. Paul’s Episcopal […]

While the Thrift Shop was unable to open during 2021, we did manage to hold two “pop-up” sales (July and December). With these two sales and income from some outside consignments we were able to […]