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The Shell Newsletter – October 5, 2017
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From the Rector – Seeing the Face of God in Each Other Next month St. James’ will host the Diocesan antiracism workshop Seeing the Face of God in Each Other. This is one of the required workshops that all clergy, lay employees, and lay leaders in the Diocese of Maryland must take. This is…
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The Shell Newsletter – September 28, 2017
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From the Rector – Stewardship 2017 Generosity changes lives. Whether we are on the giving or receiving end of generosity, when we experience it, we come close to God, and God comes close to us. This month we will be using this image as life as a journey to generosity to help us each…
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The Shell Newsletter – September 21, 2017
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From the Rector – Sabbath in the Daily Life One of the most counter-cultural things I think religion has to offer our over-scheduled and over-stressed world is the practice of sabbath. It is a foundational part of our faith found in the first creation story in Genesis: after six days of work God rested,…
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The Shell Newsletter – September 14, 2017
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From the Rector – The Church Does Not Need Volunteers Over the summer at our Vestry meetings, we began taking a few minutes each month to reflect on a brief article or resource about congregational life. One that really struck a chord with all of us was an article written by Erin Wathen about…
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The Shell Newsletter, September 7, 2017
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From the Rector – Celebrating 10 Years on North Main Street This Sunday, as we kick off another program year, we will also be celebrating that 10 years ago St. James’ made the move into this “new” building on North Main Street. In honor of this anniversary we are asking everyone to bring 10…
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Launching the NEW Shell Newsletter
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I am excited to share that we are in the final stages of planning for the launch of the NEW digital Shell Newsletter. We stopped our monthly paper newsletter at the end of last year, and have been relying on our This Week at St. James’ Thursday news emails in the interim as we’ve…