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  • Summer Church Camps at The Claggett Center

    Summer Church Camps at The Claggett Center

    Have you registered your kids for church camp this summer yet?  If you’ve never attended, I can’t say strongly enough how transformational I believe church camp can be for both children and teens.  Here’s what’s on tap this summer at Claggett: Did you know that the Bible tells us over 100 times not to…

  • CROP Walk 2016

    Mark your calendars! Crop Hunger Walk is Sunday, June 12th at 2:00 p.m. The CROP Walk is a 2.6 mile loop (approx 1 and 1/2 hours) that starts at St James Episcopal Church (1307 N Main St, Mount Airy, MD 21771) heads down to Calvary United Methodist Church (403 S Main St, Mount Airy,…

  • Hand Bells 101

    Hand Bells 101

    Want to learn a little about hand bell playing  in an informal environment?  Now’s your chance!  Middle School Age through Adults are welcome! We’ll practice briefly after 10:30 Worship 4-6 times and find a date to play for summer worship! No experience necessary!  Sign up in the Narthex.

  • Shifting Seasons: The Long Green Growing Time

    Shifting Seasons: The Long Green Growing Time

    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…

  • Youth Summer Outreach Trip

    Youth Summer Outreach Trip

    Check out the posters during coffee hour explaining our trip with Samaritan’s Purse! How can you help us get to Texas? Come get your car washed this Sunday, May 22nd at the New Market Food Lion. Youth will be there from 1:00 – 4:00 pm. Enjoy a brunch in the church after the outdoor…

  • St. James’ Episcopal Church Sunday School

    SUNDAY SCHOOL NEWS 9:30-10:15 a.m. lower level Preschool through high school Sunday School Closing Celebration Can you believe it is now May and we are nearing the end of our Sunday School program? What a wonderful year it has been! We have learned about God’s love through music, Bible stories, class lessons and activities…

  • Now the Green Blade Riseth

    Now the Green Blade Riseth

    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…

  • Poetry as the Path

    Poetry as the Path

    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…

  • Summer Church Camps at The Claggett Center

    Summer Church Camps at The Claggett Center

    Have you registered your kids for church camp this summer yet?  If you’ve never attended, I can’t say strongly enough how transformational I believe church camp can be for both children and teens.  Here’s what’s on tap this summer at Claggett: Did you know that the Bible tells us over 100 times not to…

  • Easter Season of Prayer

    The entire Episcopal Church has been invited by our Presiding Bishop, Michael Curry, to enter into a season of prayer for regions of the Anglican Communion that are experiencing violence and strife.  Please check out the link to learn more about what the churches in these regions are doing to be sources of support and hope. This…