This Sunday we will celebrate our Feast of Title – the Feast of St. James. The actual Feast of St. James is on July 25th annually, but we’ve transferred it to Sunday so we can celebrate together. Part of that celebration will include the baptism of Lucas William Hartman. How much do you know about St. James? The blurb below is from…
St. James' Episcopal Church – Mt. Airy, Maryland
Posts by Rev. Kristin Krantz (Page 5)
Dear St. James’ Parish Family, In May Blix Winston, St. James’ Delegate, and I attended 232nd Annual Convention of The Episcopal Diocese of Maryland. It was a full two days of worship, elections, workshops, conversation, and voting on resolutions. Here are our reflections. Kristin+ The two things that stood out for me at Convention this year were the keynote speech by The Very Rev. Mike…
St. James’ Church is seeking a part-time Director of Music Ministries. Candidates should be competent pianists and organists and demonstrate an ability to work with volunteer choirs and musicians. The successful candidate will have experience with the tradition and liturgies of the Episcopal Church as well as the ability to accompany and lead the choir and congregation in a variety of musical…
It is with sadness for us at St. James’, and joy for our Music Director Len Langrick, that I share with you that Len will be leaving St. James’ later this summer. Len came to us with an agreement to be an Interim Music Director through April of this year, and then agreed to stay a while longer. Len has been doing…
Dear St. James’ Parish Family, Last week nine members of St. James’, along with some parents from the Nursery School, attended a CPR/AED training session. It’s always good for a community when there’s a core group who attend each service that know CPR. But what’s even better is the newly purchased AED we are sharing with the Nursery School. What is an AED? It’s…
Get ready to pick up your very own Flat Jesus to color and then take with you wherever you go this summer! Prizes and recognitions will be given out in the fall for the picture taken the farthest away, the silliest picture, the best pic of Jesus doing an everyday activity, and much more. Have…
This year’s Memorial Day Weekend Camp Out will be Saturday, May 28th to Sunday, May 29th ~ WEATHER PERMITTING ~ KEEP YOUR FINGERS CROSSED AND YOUR EYE ON THE PARISH WEBSITE! Setup starts on Saturday at 5:00 PM and we should be ready to serve dinner around 6:00 PM. We’ll get the fire pit going near sunset and cook s’mores for…
This Sunday is Trinity Sunday, the gateway out of Eastertide and into the long green growing season of Ordinary Time, which will last until Advent. As has been the pattern, we are changing up our liturgical pieces with the change in liturgical seasons. Because Ordinary Time is so long we will be breaking it up…
Dear St. James’ Parish Family, May is the month that truly brings spring here in Maryland. In April we enjoyed the first flowers and showers of the season, but now is the time when we see the deep green of new life spring forth. It is no mistake that this is when we celebrate the…
This week ends National Poetry Month. In case you haven’t learned this about me yet, I’m a poetry hound. I find so often in poems the images or words that either escape me when I try to articulate a thought or feeling – or the images and words that open up something new and set…