Our thanks go out to the Reverend Barbara Thrall who shepherded the people of Saint Paul's with grace, compassion and kindness for ten years. After a 30 year career of ministry, she began a well-earned retirement July 1, 2017.

​Rev. Barbara was ordained in 1986 in the Diocese of NY, after attending The General Theological Seminary in NY City. She served as an assistant in a congregation there from 1986 until 1990, when she moved with her family to northern New Hampshire to pastor a church there. She and her husband, Ed, moved to Holyoke so that she could become rector of St. Paul’s in May of 2007.