Rector – Have You Heard We’re Moving To A Summer Schedule? We’ve been talking about it since Easter, so I hope you know that on Sunday, June 10 we’re moving to a summer schedule with one service only at 9:30 am. I wrote extensively about the “why” here (https://www.stjamesmtairy.org/2018/04/12/the-shell-newsletter-april-12-2018/), but the short answer is to have more of a critical mass in…
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I am excited to share that we have found our new Nursery Care Attendant for Sunday mornings! Please join me in welcoming Katelynn Marshall. Katelynn comes to us with experience as a professional nanny and glowing recommendations. Her first day with us was last Sunday and some of you had a chance to say hello then – but don’t be shy about…
This slightly odd phrase – to take your share in the councils of the Church – is actually a part of the ordination service for a priest. It is an admonition to remember that community is not just the parishes we are called to serve with, but the wider body of Christ as well – and we are called to serve widely. …
At the beginning of every Vestry meeting we open with prayer and our norms. This month we began a new prayer practice, and it’s one I’d like to invite our whole parish family into. Each month three Vestry members are volunteering to choose one of the prayers from the Prayers & Thanksgivings section at the back of the Book of Common Prayer. …
Greetings from high school camp week at Claggett! As many of you know, church camp has a special place in my heart which is why I am so thankful the leadership at St. James’ supports my serving as chaplain for a week each summer. This year’s theme is Go and Do Likewise, and throughout the…
Yet again as news unfolded of tragedy and violence this week, I was at a loss for words to pray with. It is at times like these that I turn to scripture – and then to books of prayer and poetry. I have a stash of favorites., but invariably one of the first places I look is the back of our Book…
This Sunday we gather for the Feast of Pentecost – the capstone to the Easter season and the day we celebrate the birth-day of the church. Pentecost is a movable feast, as its date is dependent upon Easter. This year it falls at the start of June, and is our hinge point into summer worship. As has become our routine, we will…
Tomorrow and Saturday folks from around the diocese will be gathering for our annual convention. Delegate Blix Winston, and alternate Carla Kaufman, and I will represent St. James’, and partake in this business of the church. This year Presiding Bishop Michael Curry will be the featured guest, presiding at the opening Eucharist for convention and…
This Sunday, weather permitting, we will have our next Time-Out Together Family Ministry event – let’s go fly a kite! Everyone in the St. James’ community is invited to bring a picnic lunch and a kite and join us in the field next to the church after the 10:30 am service. I also hear from a reliable source that the giant bubble…
Over the last year and a half I’ve been listening to the Story and stories of St. James’. It’s been a continuation of the work that began in conversations as you were calling me to be your next Rector. Part of the work of that time of transition was to discern the identity of the parish so you could communicate it to…