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The Diocesan Council invites you to participate in listening sessions on reparations. In response to a resolution at last May’s Diocesan Convention, Council was charged with taking up this issue. An ad hoc Committee on Reparations recommended listening sessions across the diocese. At the listening sessions facilitators will welcome attendees and introduce the speakers,…
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St James Nursery School is wrapping up their fall events and getting ready for all the excitement of Christmas! The 3-year-old students will have a special cookie event and the Pre-K will enjoy Christmas evening events with their families during December. As always, our students continue to enjoy Bookmobile visits and chapel time with…
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9:30-10:15 a.m. lower level Preschool through high school If in your heart you make a manger for his birth, then God will once again become a child on earth. It is Advent…..are you ready? Our Sunday School students began the Advent Season by making Advent wreaths during their 4th Sunday Fun group activity. There…
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St. James’ Outreach is supporting a new way for families to celebrate Advent, the Reverse Advent Calendar activity. The idea is to mark the days until Christmas, but instead of getting something each day the idea is to collect items to give to others every day. We believe this is a wonderful way to…

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The Outreach Committee wanted to share the successful completion of our Thanksgiving Dinner food collection on Sunday, 11/20. Thanks to our generous congregation, all of the dinner items were received, sorted, and ready for pickup without a hitch. Upon arrival the families were welcomed, the cars were quickly packed up, and a Thanksgiving blessing was…
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Angel Tree Support for Mt. Airy Net Families and Pleasant View Residents The Christmas season is under way, and as you may have seen our Angel Tree is filled with angels. The red, green and blue angels are for the families and the yellow angels are for Pleasant View residents. How the Angel…
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St. James’ Outreach is supporting a new way for families to celebrate Advent, the Reverse Advent Calendar activity. The idea is to mark the days until Christmas, but instead of getting something each day the idea is to collect items to give to others every day. We believe this is a wonderful way to…
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It has been a very busy and exciting fall at St James Nursery School! Our 3’s and Preschool 4’s classes took field trips to local pumpkin farms and our classroom Halloween parties were held October 31st and November 1st. We also just wrapped up another successful fundraiser and the proceeds will go towards our…
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Here it is….November! Can you believe it? Sunday School has been in full swing since September and we have been enjoying our time with your children on Sunday mornings. Our last 4th Sunday group activity was a busy one. The children decorated fall leaves with words of thankfulness – and made bagel bird seed…

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The leaves are turning and there is a chill in the air, sure signs that the holiday season is upon us. St. James is supporting three (3) Mt. Airy Net families during the 2016 holiday season. A Thanksgiving sign up list is posted in the Narthex and collection bins are setup for each family.…