Welcome
Welcome, and thank you for visiting St. James Church online. We hope that our website highlights the wide variety of worship, fellowship and service opportunities available. Please feel free to read more about our church on this site, or come in for a visit. We would love to greet you and share with you our love for Jesus Christ and for you, our neighbor.
St. James Welcomes you !
10:30 AM, Holy Communion
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Online tithing and giving.
Weddings & Baptisms
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Our church offers a traditional setting for your most sacred celebrations.
Our Mission & Vision
Mission statement:
Serving & Trusting Jesus by Abiding, Ministering, Embracing & sharing. Vision:
St. James Evangelical Lutheran Church is a congregation of believers in Jesus Christ - a people set apart by God for His purposes!
Click "read more" to view our Vision statement.
Food Pantry 05/15/2025
10:00 am-11:00 am
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Community Food Pantry is held in the fellowship hall.
Please park on the side with the ramp.
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Mid Week Reflection
Not Done With You!
God’s not done with you yet! I want you to stop and think about that for a minute. God’s not done with you yet! Whether you are old or young: God is not done with you yet! Perhaps you are healthy or ill: God is not done with you yet! Or you’re rich or poor: God’s not done with you yet!
Why do I keep saying that? Because when the world thinks God has stopped acting, stopped working: God shows that God is not done with any of us yet! When the Israelites were slaves in Egypt, “(they) groaned under their slavery, and cried out. Out of the slavery their cry for help rose up to God. God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. God looked upon the Israelites, and God took notice of them” (Ex 2:23b-25). When the people were hungry and thirsty in the wilderness, God wasn’t done with them yet (Ex 16-17). When people sinned and there were consequences for all, God wasn’t done with them yet (Judges, over and over again; 1 Samuel - Malachi). When God’s people were ruled over by empires, God wasn’t done with them yet! So why shouldn’t it be surprising that: God’s not done with you yet!
I returned from my vacation to a note on my desk. Carefully opening it up, the note was from a woman who had experienced kindness here at St. James a few years ago. She was homeless and was seeking residual heat from our building next to the sanctuary on a wet and cold winter night. In her note she shares her feelings of embarrassment and apologetic posture. What she experienced however was care, concern and recognition. She received from us some easy to travel food, some dry clothes and welcome. She said she felt like things were done. What she experienced was the very reality that the cross and empty tomb stand in testament to: God’s not done with you yet! She shares that she is not homeless now and appreciates all that she experienced that winter morning.
I ask you then to think on what is going on in your life, in our church, in our community, in our world and ponder anew: “God’s not done with you yet! So, what can I do to help others experience that reality?”
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Weekly Reading
"For by grace y'all have been saved by grace, and this is not y'all's doing; it is the gift of God - not the result of works so that no one many boast. Because we are what God has made us, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared to be our way of life." (Ephesians 2:8-10)
