Where we are - 250 Highway 2 NE, Corinth MS
St. Paul’s --- Past, Present, Future!
The Episcopal presence in Corinth, Miss. began with three communicants in 1857. In the next few decades, the congregation changed names and locations several times before settling in 1902 as St. Paul’s at a location on Taylor Street near downtown.
In the 1920s, the original frame building was renovated with a brick veneer and stained glass windows, including a beautiful altar window of Jesus as the Great Physician, given by Mr. Jake Rubel in memory of his physician, Dr. Charles Taylor, who had been a lay leader at St. Paul’s. Over the years, St. Paul’s acquired adjacent properties to use as rectory, parish house, and parking.
As the twentieth century neared its end, however, it became apparent that the three small residential lots on Taylor Street owned by St. Paul’s could not support the growing congregation. A generous bequest from a descendant of Dr. Taylor made it possible to buy a large tract of land on the growing northern edge of Corinth. In 1999 St. Paul’s made the difficult decision to leave its beautiful, but small, building and construct a multi-purpose facility facing Highway 2 and Shiloh Road. Early in 2001 St. Paul’s moved into the new building.
The "new" St. Paul’s with its modern kitchen, large parish hall, and adequate restroom facilities is a welcome change, but the sanctuary is as much like the old one as possible. On moving day members of the congregation converged with trucks and trailers to move the altar, altar rail, pews, (and later the pulpit) from old location to new --- and the Taylor memorial window still rises behind the altar with other stained glass windows from the old building used in the side wall and other locations in the new church.
As St. Paul’s continues to grow, we have moved from one to two Sunday services and look forward to the day when we can build a new, separate building for the sanctuary alone. We also continue to pray for guidance for other ways to use our 20-plus acres.
St. Paul’s invites you to become part of a growing church family and to help shape God’s house at this time and place.
--- Holly McIntyre, from information provided by Dorothy Hopkins,
St. Paul's archivist
