Volunteer Sign Up! Please Sign Up For April
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Please remember EASTER Sunday is on April 17th. If you haven't already signed up for ministries, Please click on APRIL and sign up.
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Lent
- Vestry and Finance Committee in-person Meeting at 6 pm on March 14th.
- Lenten Study: Book Study: Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again by Rachael Held Evans. Amazon. Please join us for these wonderful sessions on Sundays and Wednesdays. Your Lenten schedule tells you the chapters we will be studying each Sunday and Wednesday.
- Soup Suppers: Starts on March 9th @5:30 pm. March 9, 16, 23, 30, 6.
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Holy Week Retreat
April 9th. Lead by Br. Andee Book. Save the date.
(A Dominican Monk, Preacher and Musician)
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Surprises of life - Live Today!
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Life is full of surprises and they are sometimes totally expected and at other times, beyond your control and unnerving. In the midst of such situations, we all need to fall to the flow, which is called falling into the flow God is setting you on.
I am fully aware of the totally unexpected journey ahead of us and for all of us here at St. James. St. James didn't expect their newly called Rector to serve for four and half years, and the rector didn't think that he will have to move to a totally different part of the country to respond to God's call. There is a lot of grief, sadness, excitement and for some a little anger. This is what is real though. We all face these kinds of situations daily. Sometimes we deal with it well and at other times we fall prey to negative emotions and fears.
So, today I invite you to reflect deeper on the reality that life, which is uncertain every single day. We have to live the best life we can every day. That's why none of us have the luxury of postponing living our lives fully and joyfully today. Nobody has the freedom to put off loving another human being the next day. Because as the Lord says the next day brings its own set of woes and worries, joys and excitements.
Dear Saint, I invite you to live fully today. Love joyfully today. Do not give in to fears, sadness, and anger today. True spirituality calls for perfect joy, as St. Francis of Assisi would say. What is perfect joy? The joy that comes from knowing we are not alone in our sorrow. We are not isolated in our fears. We rejoice because the next in our lives are fully and completely in the hands of God, and that goes for all of us. Francis lived happily in poverty, sickness, or hunger!
Fr. Jos+
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Call to all parents with children,
Join me Thursday, March 24th at 6pm. for a parent meeting to discuss the origination of a St. James parent group. Childcare and pizza provided.
Topics will be as follows,
- What's in a name?
- What to expect?
- How can we support?
- Who should lead?
- How to build community?
- How to grow community?
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Youth and Children Sunday School
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This week in EYC and EKC let's talk about Abram, the father of a great nation! God choice Abraham and in a dream told him he would become the father of as many people as there are stars in the sky! What can be learn from Abraham? Find out Sunday, EKC, 9:30 am. and EYC after the church service.
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Celebrations & Prayers This Month
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Happy Birthdays
Daniel Redding, March 1st.
Jim Colwell, March 3rd.
Tammy Larimore, March 4th
Sam Breid, March 4th
Carter Stuckey, March 5th
Dorothy Kaiser, March 6th.
Chris Rayl, March 7th.
Fr. Jos Tharakan, March 8th
Asha Tharakan, March 8th
Kathleen Jackson, March 9th
Joanne Ibrahim, March 19th
Robert Jackson, March 21st
Addison Stuckey, March 23rd.
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Happy Anniversary
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Prayers for Families This Week
Hendricks, Holder, Hopper
Flower Dedications
No Flowers in Lent
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Tessa Eggers, Terry Abshire
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Deacon & Gospel Proclamation
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Eucharistic Minister 1
Eucharistic Minister 2
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Chris Dodson
Robert Lanning
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1st Reading
Psalm
2nd Reading
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COVID-19 Please take prudent and necessary precautions when in large gatherings.
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