Welcome Team
Welcome Team members work to create an inclusive environment among St. Paul’s parishioners so that all guests and newcomers feel warmly welcomed at all St. Paul’s events and worship services. Team members wear red nametags at worship and other events; each member shares duties of greeting, meeting and recording information about guests of St. Paul’s each Sunday and follows up with handwritten notes or phone calls. Special gatherings are held following worship at least three times each year (Spring, Fall, late Summer) to introduce newcomers to each other and to long-time members of the St. Paul’s community.
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The Rev’d Andrew Cannan
Rector
Andrew appreciates the diversity of the journeys that bring people to find a home at St. Paul’s. He was baptized a Methodist, majored in religious studies at a Baptist university, married a Presbyterian, received a Master of Divinity as a Devil (the blue, basketball-crazed variety), and was ordained in a congregationalist church prior to finding his way as an Episcopal priest. “I was drawn to this strange Church that accepted the messiness of life and embraced it with grace and dignity. That sounded like a place where I could learn to live with God. That and I was always wanted to dress like Johny Cash.” In their downtime, Andrew and his wife, Ashley, enjoy East Carolina evenings in the backyard with their sons. On days off, he likely won’t be found fishing a remote section of the Eastern Pamlico that he is reluctant to disclose.
