St. Paul’s Episcopal Church Women meet on the second Tuesday of each month in St. Paul’s Library. After lunch and fellowship, an invited speaker presents a program, which is followed by the group’s monthly business meeting. Every woman at St. Paul’s is considered a member of the ECW, and visitors are always welcome. (Men also are invited, and often attend lunch and the monthly program.)

Officers in 2003 are Dorothea Thomsen, president; Betty Stark, vice president; Linda Turner, secretary; and Anne Hubbard, treasurer.

St. Catherine’s Guild was the mother of St. Paul’s ECW. The Guild was organized at St. Paul’s in November 1957, in the same month that St. Paul‘s was recognized as a Mission by the Bishop of the Diocese of California. A primary goal for the new women’s group was to raise funds for the newly established mission, through table-setting contests, teas, fashion shows and food sales. Once enough money was raised to start building, the women also amply fed the men who came every Saturday to work on the building.

In 1997, the women of St. Catherine’s Guild changed their name to The Episcopal Church Women of St. Paul’s, to identify themselves with the ECW in other parishes of the Episcopal Church across the country.

For more information about St. Paul’s ECW, contact Dorothea Thomsen.