Sunday, September 25 and October 16 a team from St. Paul's, San Jose State, the South University Neighborhood and PACT will be holding conversations with neighbors to encourage people to vote.  We have many people who are new to our neighborhood and we want to let people know that their voice and their vote matter! Training is from 12-1 pm and door-to-door canvassing will be from 1-4.  Volunteers are invited to join us.

Followed by our Annual Easter Egg Hunt with our neighbors at the Park! All Children are welcome to join us.

Join us for the first Sunday of 2016.  January 3rd at 10:30 AM our Sunday morning worship service will include time to reflect over 2015 and all that we are grateful for as well as those things we want to learn from and put behind us.  We will also have the opportunity to commit to spiritual disciplines that lead to enjoying God and loving our neighbors in the coming year.  This is the year to shine!

Our work in the South University Neighborhood will soon benefit from information gathered by student surveyors.  SJSU Urban Planning students will launch from St. Paul's onto the streets of downtown to go door-to-door and receive information from residents.  They hope to hear of both assets and needs in the area as well as get an overall impression of how the people who live here feel about their neighborhood.  St. Paul's will then be part of implementing responses alongside our neighbors to make this a great place for all to live. 
We entered this work through our many years of lay members providing faith community representation on the neighborhood Council.  Then we stepped into a need to provide events and community in our local park.  This brought us into relationship with CommUniverCity and many SJSU students and faculty who want to bring education from the classroom into practice.
We hope all of our neighbors will receive the students warmly and will participate in this opportunity that may provide needed information as we move forward.