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Estate Planning Event on June 10th The St. James’ Endowment Board is organizing an ESTATE PLANNING SEMINAR at St. James’ on Sunday, June 10th, 12:30-2:30 pm. We will begin with time for fellowship and a light lunch. We encourage you to attend and invite your family and friends to learn more about wills, probate, inheritance taxes, asset protection,…
This past year the Endowment Board received donations of $7400. That money increases the principal in the Endowment Fund. From the increase in appreciation and from interest accrued, the Endowment Board distributes money to St. James’, to the Memorial Garden Fund and to the Little Church Fund if they choose to accept it. That money…
The ecological movement of recycling and composting is passing us by. For a community of our size, and one that hosts several outside groups on our campus, it can be challenging to ensure our waste is properly segregated and disposed of. Until now, we have been fairly lax in our efforts to separate out recycling…
In the world of congregational development, a church can plateau, and if left in that space for too long, it can begin to decline. A community always needs to ask itself in what ways can it grow, increase its effectiveness in the world, and more clearly reflect the presence of Jesus Christ. So, during our…
There’s a story that goes around Episcopal Church circles this time of year told by a priest, Janet Vincent, who found herself at Ground Zero after the towers came down. While there, doing her best to pray with the shell shocked and stunned, a firefighter approached her at 1:45 and asked a simple question, “Is…
An identifying mark of being an Episcopalian is being part of a larger body of Christians, geographically organized into Dioceses. Our Diocese, the Diocese of California (consisting of the Bay Area), is embarking on a major capital campaign called Expanding Horizons. This campaign seeks to raise between $20-$32 million from direct contributions and from shared…
I’ve been asked this question a lot over the years as I have been a member of St. James since childhood and have been a pledging member for most of my adult life. I have also heard many stewardship sermons and stewardship speeches by stewardship chairs. Some resonated with me, while others did not. I’m…
Giving to God’s kingdom was initially brought to my attention when I was a little boy of 8 years old and going to church with my Dad. This was back home in South Africa. My Dad never owned a car back then; it was too costly to buy one and we used to walk to…
I consider my church community to be my spiritual family. To me, St. James’ is a spiritual family bound together by the common fellowship of humanity and by the blood of Christ in a way that is very much as real and palpable as the blood ties that we share with our immediate families. Family…
Some years ago (around 2003) a number of St. James’ parishioners decided that a sum of money should be set aside and that the proceeds from the growth of that money would be used for the betterment of St. James’ by developing ministries beyond what is possible through its annual operating funds. That meant distributions…