Dear Community of St. James’, We have traveled a long road from March 2020 to today. The road has taken many turns and iterations. We have gone from a complete lock-down with video-taped services, to going “live” in an empty sanctuary with all of you worshiping at home, to registration-based in-person services, to proof of…

Dear St. James’ Family, We are blessed to have effective vaccines and booster shots to combat and minimize the results of the COVID19 virus. We give thanks for the science and scientists who have worked diligently to find an adequate response to what would otherwise continue to be a deadly illness. We have come a…

We realize there has been a lot of wondering as to when we might regather or how our church lives might look in the near future. We have established a Regathering Task Force that is made up of the the Rector, the Children & Youth Minister, the Music Director, the Senior Warden, Dave N. to…

“Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.” C.S. Lewis I have always been a firm believer that when things have gotten tough in my life, that I will be a stronger person for having gotten through the struggle. I have seen this many times; from my broken marriage, to my layoffs at my work,…

It is as if life has stopped, isn’t it? A halting of routines, habits and patterns disrupted, negotiating shared space in ways we’ve never done before, having a game plan for grocery shopping, and not being able to run to the doctor for non-life-threatening concerns.  We are living in strange times and nothing seems “normal”.…