9/21/2021

Join us for a 4-week Season of Creation series, September 12 through October 4. Join us at 10AM on Sunday, in-person or online. On October 4, bring your pets (or photos of pets) to church for our blessing of animals. See St James Weekly below for 3 ways you can participate in the blessing of animals, including our slide show.

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 9/19

In addition to items in this email, the attached St James Weekly PDF includes a variety of other announcements, updates, 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.

Book Group meeting (in-person/Zoom) - Wednesday 9/22 at 7PM

featuring book by member Peggy Turnbull

This St James Book Group plans to meet in the St James Fellowship Hall and via Zoom on Wednesday, September 22 at 7PM. Those gathering in-person should wear masks and spread out. Please feel free to join the conversation even if you have not had a chance to read the book. 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 Joy of Their Holiness by Peggy Turnbull. The book group will honored to have Peggy in person for the discussion. Peggy and her husband, Robert, live in Manitowoc, WI and are members of St James Episcopal Church.

Peggy Turnbull's Amazon biography includes: I'm a former academic librarian who lives in the city of her birth, Manitowoc, Wisconsin. After four decades away, during which I lived in and fell in love with several geographies, my husband and I moved to live near four generations of my family. I love literature, the Great Lakes, and wish I could live several lifetimes in order to learn all there is to know about the world, including geology, evolution, Spanish language and literature, and, especially, poetry."

Peggy's poems have been widely published in Ariel Chart, Writers Resist, Verse-Virtual, Solitary Plover, The Wisconsin Poets Calendar, Your Daily Poem, Hummingbird, and Bramble, and have appeared recently in Poetry Super Highway, Ancient Paths Online, and Contemporary Haibun Online. She won The Mill Prize for Poetry in 2019 and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

The Joy of Their Holiness, was published by Kelsay Books (July 9, 2020) and is available in paperback.

Read more of her poetry at peggyturnbull.blogspot.com

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 #

When prompted for Participant ID, press #

When prompted for Password, enter 0 # [number zero

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 9/24 FRIDAY MORNING PRAYER READINGS

Resumes 10/3 - Discussion/Study - Sundays 8:30-9:30AM

Our 8:30AM Sunday study/discussion is taking a break through the end of September. We'll resume via Zoom/phone on October 3, working our way through the 13 chapters of 2 Corinthians.

Sunday Worship - Sundays at 10AM

In the church and online!

COVID precaution: Masks and distancing are currently required for all present for all St James Episcopal Church indoor group activities. Thanks!

9/26: Pentecost 18 -- Season of Creation wk 3

10/3: St Francis -- Season of Creation wk 4 / Blessing of Animals

10/10: Pentecost 20 -- Mental Health Awareness

10/17: Pentecost 21 -- Homelessness Awareness

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 9/26 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.

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.)

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.

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!

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]