Find Your Place at St. Paul’s
St. Paul’s: A Place to Call Home
Welcome to St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Newburyport, Massachusetts. St. Paul’s has been serving Newburyport since 1711 and we embrace the heritage of our faith in a way that shapes our lives today in the 21st century.
I’m Fr. Jarred Mercer, Rector (parish priest) of St. Paul’s. We are a community seeking to follow in the radical and inclusive love of Jesus Christ. We express that love in our worship, service, and communal life together. Our worship is centered on prayer and the Eucharist (also often called the Mass or Holy Communion), in which we offer our whole selves to God and in turn are placed on offer as a eucharistic gift to others, serving our city, the surrounding areas, and the wider world in Christ’s mercy. St. Paul’s is a place where every person is welcome and belongs, where people are delighted in and accepted for who they are, and where they are called to participate in God’s reconciliation and redemption of the world through their unique gifts and passions.
We are also a community that welcomes doubt as part of our faith, values questions alongside answers, and provides a home for exploration, wherever people find themselves on the spectrum of belief and in their pursuit of truth.
Explore our website and discover the ways we’re serving one another and our community, and please feel free to contact me for any reason at all at rector@stpaulsnewburyport.org.
Every blessing,
Becoming Part of a Community
St. Paul’s is a part of The Episcopal Church, a member of the worldwide Anglican Communion. We all, first and foremost, find our belonging in God’s love and embrace. Being Episcopalian puts some context to that belonging and provides a path within it, and joining a particular parish church like St. Paul’s offers a tangible, everyday home for each of us to live along that path—the path of living as the beloved of God and of one another. You can find out more below about what it means to be a member of Christ’s Church universal, The Episcopal Church specifically, and St. Paul’s locally.
More Than Going to Church
Become Part of a Community
Being part of St. Paul’s is about more than attending on Sunday.
It’s about finding a spiritual home, a community where we celebrate together, support one another through life’s challenges, deepen our faith, and work together for the good of our neighbors and our world.
