Parish News (Page 50)

Let’s Go Fly A Kite!

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…

A Vision for Our Shared Life & Ministry

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…

M.A.D. Camp 2017

St. James’ is sponsoring another M.A.D. Camp for kids this summer and the play is entitled “The Emperor’s New Clothes.”  We are in need of items to outfit our young actors.  If you would be willing to donate or “loan” the below items we would be extremely happy!  They are: 1.  Men’s size small or boy’s size large long sleeve white dress shirts…

The Hard Questions

Our Easter adult formation series this year will be a series called The Hard Questions: Parenting with Doubt, Faithfulness, and Wonder.  It’s a program I created a few years ago because parents were always asking me how to answer their kids’ hard questions.  Throughout the five weeks, the course is designed to create a space to engage in those hard questions, and…

Coming Close to the Mystery of Easter

Last Sunday we gathered and waved our palms while letting Hosannas ring, and then stood in the shadow of the cross as we read the story of the last time Jesus came to Jerusalem.  I am always thrown by the swing of energy in that service – and wondered to a mentor once why we do it, why not just celebrate Palm…

An Episcopal Nun in Our Midst

A note from St. James’ member Paula Morrow, who is a member of The Worker Sisters and Brothers of the Holy Spirit: The Worker Sisters and Brothers of the Holy Spirit is an international Covenant Community that offers women and men, regardless of marital status, a path for individual spiritual growth through a life commitment to a Rule of Life. We are…

Entering the Holiest of Weeks

This Sunday we enter the holiest of weeks in the Christian calendar.  It is the time we set aside every year to walk Jesus’ last steps, that we may know some piece of the unimaginable love of God. It begins on Sunday when we gather outside for the Liturgy of the Palms.  We tell the story of Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem…