7/21/2021

Join us for a 7-week Becoming Beloved Community series, 7/11 through 8/22.

We value our diverse community. At St James Episcopal Church we welcome and celebrate diversity in age, race, nation of origin, citizenship status, gender identity, sexual orientation, social status, political view, background, ability level, marital status, and anything else that makes us unique. We strive to be an inviting safe community for all.

St James Weekly for week of 7/18

In addition to items in this email, the attached St James Weekly PDF includes a variety of other announcements, weekly Vestry Notes, and our weekly prayer list.

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD ST JAMES WEEKLY

Mid-Week Worship - Wednesdays at 4PM

Join us for a mid-week Worship service on Wednesdays at 4PM.

Click the link to participate using a computer, laptop, tablet, or other device:

go.mysjec.com/wednesday

Or participate from any phone: Dial 1-312-626-6799

When prompted for Meeting ID, enter 670 567 006 then press #

When prompted for Participant ID, press #

When prompted for Password, enter 0 then press # [number zero]

Everybody is encouraged to read/pray/sing at appropriate times during Mid-Week Worship. If you need to mute your phone for any reason, use your phone's mute button or press *6 to mute/unmute.

Morning Prayer - Fridays at 7AM

Click the link to participate using a computer, laptop, tablet, or other device:

go.mysjec.com/friday

Or participate from any phone: Dial 1-312-626-6799

When prompted for Meeting ID, enter 831 5230 0483 then press #

When prompted for Participant ID, press #

When prompted for Password, enter 0 then press # [number zero]

Everybody is encouraged to read/pray/sing at the appropriate times during Morning Prayer. If you need to mute your phone for any reason, use your phone's mute button or press *6 to mute/unmute.

CLICK HERE FOR 7/23 FRIDAY MORNING PRAYER READINGS

Video Discussion Series "A Year in the Life" - Sundays 8:30-9:30AM

Join us on Sundays for the video discussion series produced by The Episcopal Church: "A Year in the Life" . It documents how Episcopal churches, schools, and ministries navigated a very contentious and difficult year. The series covers topics like food insecurity, education, worship through restrictions, clergy calls, and more.

Click the link to participate using a computer, laptop, tablet, or other device:

go.mysjec.com/biblestudy

Or participate from any phone: Dial 1-312-626-6799

When prompted for Meeting ID, enter 580 876 932 #

When prompted for Participant ID, press #

When prompted for Password, enter 0 then press # [number zero]

Sunday Worship - Sundays at 10AM

In the church and online!

Per diocesan guidelines, those who have been fully vaccinated may choose to not wear masks for worship and other church activities; those who are unvaccinated should continue to mask.

7/25: Pentecost 9 -- Becoming Beloved Community series wk 3

8/1: Pentecost 10 -- Becoming Beloved Community series wk 4

8/8: Pentecost 11 -- Becoming Beloved Community series wk 5

8/15: Pentecost 12 -- Becoming Beloved Community series wk 6

8/22: Pentecost 13 -- Becoming Beloved Community series wk 7

Amma Diane and Father Jerry typically alternate preaching weeks.

View and interact during our Sunday Worship services on Facebook or YouTube on Sundays at 10AM Central:

go.mysjec.com/facebook OR go.mysjec.com/youtube

Most of the words and song lyrics for the service appear in the videos, or you can download the bulletin:

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE 7/25 BULLETIN

You may need to refresh the page if you arrive before the live stream begins. If you 'Like' and 'Get Notifications' from our Facebook page you'll receive a notification each time we start a new live video.

If you 'Subscribe' to our YouTube channel and then click the bell icon you'll receive a notification any time we post a new video. If you can't watch live, you can watch at the same links at a later time/day on Facebook or YouTube.

Live with L.U.V. event 7/25 at 1PM

Local non-profit organization L.U.V. (Lakeshore’s United Visionaries) is hosting “Live with L.U.V.: Critical Race Theory and the Manitowoc Public School District” on Sunday, July 25 from 1-3PM. Attend in the First Presbyterian Church Hall (502 N 8th St) or watch the live stream at: facebook.com/lakeshoresunitedvisionaries

Critical race theory has been a recent topic of political conflict. Come listen, learn, and share together with parents, students, and others in our community. This is one step we can take toward Becoming Beloved Community.

St James Book Group meets 7/28 at 7PM

This St James Book Group will meet on Wednesday, July 28, from 7-8PM, via Zoom and telephone. If you would like to borrow a book from the inter-library loan, please contact Anne Schuette at 920-242-2819. This book is also available on Kindle and in audiobook format. Please feel free to come to our group even if you have not read the book. Invite a friend. If you have technical difficulties Amma Diane Murray 920-860-5152 will try to help you with these.

The book being read and discussed this month is The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich. Winner of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, the New York Times bestseller and Best Book of 2020 for the Washington Post, Amazon, NPR, CBS Sunday Morning, Chicago Public Library and Good Housekeeping

Harper Collins writes "Based on the extraordinary life of National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich’s grandfather who worked as a night watchman and carried the fight against Native dispossession from rural North Dakota all the way to Washington, D.C., this powerful novel explores themes of love and death with lightness and gravity and unfolds with the elegant prose, sly humor, and depth of feeling of a master craftsman." In March, 2020 Luis Alberto Urrea gave this introduction to the book. "Early in this banquet of a novel that invites us back into Louise Erdrich’s ongoing Chippewa chronicles, a character on the reservation boasts, “Law can’t take my Indian out of me.” Unfortunately, the United States government is hoping to do just that through the Termination Bill, an Orwellian plan that promises to “emancipate” Indigenous people from their lands and their tribal affiliations. This isn’t in 1893; the novel takes place in the 1950s. Even that might sound like distant history — but part of Erdrich’s point is that little has changed..."

Book Group usually meets the 4th Wednesday of the month, except in November and December we meet one week earlier.

Click the link to participate using a computer, laptop, tablet, or other device:

go.mysjec.com/bookgroup

Or participate from any phone: Dial 1-312-626-6799

When prompted for Meeting ID, enter 873 5481 2492 then press #

When prompted for Participant ID, press #

When prompted for Password, enter 0 then press # [number zero]

Thanks for your support!

We appreciate your continued financial support while we are being the church in this different way. Checks can still be mailed to the church, and are regularly counted and deposited. You can also set up payments through your bank (most offer this for free). Online options are available with the link below. We know that these are difficult times for some, and we understand if you are unable to support the church financially. Please contact Amma Diane if you need help connecting to assistance or resources.

CLICK HERE TO ACCESS SECURE ONLINE GIVING THROUGH OUR WEB SITE

Our special offering in odd-numbered months (January, March, May, July, September, November) goes to Painting Pathways Clubhouse, helping those in our community with a diagnosed mental illness. Our special offering in even-numbered months (February, April, June, August, October, December) goes to the Rector's discretionary fund, helping those in need. Please label your gifts accordingly.

St James Weekly and email list timing

St James Weekly is included in two emails per week, and mailed once per week. When sharing information about projects, programs, and events please send the info as early as possible so we are able to promote over a longer period of time, when appropriate. (To help limit the burden on everybody’s inboxes, we intentionally send only two emails per week to our email list, unless there is a death or other urgent matter.)

Do you ever have trouble clicking our links?

For a variety of technical reasons, links in the emails we send may sometimes malfunction. These are often due to incompatible updates or security settings on various device, software, and web sites. If you click a link in our emails (or attached PDFs) and it doesn't work properly, type in the link manually. Open your web browser and type in the exact link (don't add www or anything else). Manually typing the link should always work properly. We use customized shorter URLs in the format "go.mysjec.com/_______" that make manually typing links easier than the longer URLs for most events. If you encounter a link that doesn't work when you type it in manually, please contact Tony (text, call, or email [email protected]). Thanks!

View our past Worship services at any time

View our previous services any time you like on our YouTube channel:

go.mysjec.com/youtube

If you 'Subscribe' to our YouTube channel and then click the bell icon you'll receive a notification any time we post a new video.

We appreciate your feedback

Thank you to everybody who has taken the time to participate in our various opportunities to engage remotely for worship, sharing, learning, and connection. Until further notice we'll be maintaining our schedule on Sundays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, as well as other special services and remote gatherings. Thank you for watching/listening! Thank you for commenting and engaging with each other! And thank you for liking and sharing our videos, Facebook page, and YouTube channel to help spread the word!

We appreciate your feedback about any of these new technologies we are implementing. If you had any technical issues or technical questions, please let us know. Please email your feedback and questions to [email protected]