Worship Services
Services
Eucharist:
2nd Sundays 10:30 am with Pastor Steve Quist
Morning Prayer:
1st,3rd, 4th, and if a 5th Sunday 10:30 am with Licensed Lay Worship Leaders
Vestry - Lay Leadership
Sue Fritz, Administrator, Altar Guild
Mike Martin, Evangelist & Licensed Lay Worship Leader
Bruce Louwagie, Sr. Warden & Licensed Lay Worship Leader
BC Franson, Jr. Warden & Licensed Lay Worship Leader
Gary Fritz, Treasurer, Vestry & Eucharistic Minister
Charlotte Wendel, Vestry & ECMN Delegate
Episcopal News Service:
Calendar - Click on link
If you have church activities to post on the calendar email info to mmleach@me.com
Gatherings
Vestry- 4th Sundays after church
Episcopal Church Women (ECW)
Dinner Bunch - Food and Fellowship monthly hosted and cohosted in people's homes
Men of St James (MOSJ)
Youth Group - Activities scheduled regularly. Charlotte Wendel and BC Franson Co-Leadership.
Contact Charlotte Wendel, cwendel37@gmail.com or BC
Franson, bc.franson@smu.edu, Youth Fellowship Leaders, for Youth Group Information
Bp's Post July 4, 2025
"Tonight, on a day when when it’s hard to feel much more than shame and despair about what America has become, the day after a few hundred legislators whose job it is to represent the people passed a bill that perfectly captures the petty cruelty of the current government, a bill that almost no one of any political persuasion supports and that will benefit only a tiny elite, a vote that is nothing more than an oath of loyalty to the mad despot in the White House, I drove my two kids to our small town fireworks display while we listened to Woody Guthrie’s old, beautiful, protest song “This Land is Your Land.”
The founders of our nation were flawed humans full of hypocrisy and contradictions who founded a deeply flawed nation full of contradictions. But at the heart of it was a vision for government by the governed, and at least in theory, space for a multi-racial, ethnic, and religious community united across diversity. Guthrie’s song was a call to pick up the torch of that vision in his day.
Sitting in my truck with my kids watching them watch the fireworks, I cried angry tears over how far we have fallen from what we could be. And listening to Woody’s song was a reminder that authoritarianism always collapses under its own weight, and the current version will, too. There may be unspeakable damage along the way, but it will collapse. So the song helped turn my despair into a firmer resolve to resist while I can, and to keep reminding my kids of what we could still one day be, so they can not succumb to cynical despair, but keep shining the light of hope defiantly into the darkness.
In the first two and a half years of his episcopate, Bishop Loya oversaw a diocese in the throes of the COVID-19 pandemic, pastored Minnesotans in the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd and the attendant uprising, unrest, and trauma, joined people of all faiths from all over the country to bear witness to the damage to God’s creation caused by the installation of Line 3 at the headwaters of the Mississippi River, has spoken out against the unjust treatment of refugees and migrants held in the Bishop Whipple federal building, has affirmed that diversity of all kinds, including gender diversity, is a reflection of a humanity created in God’s image, and has inspired many with his deeply faithful call to join God’s project of healing the whole world with love.
Welcome to St. James Episcopal Church
St James Episcopal Church, Marshall in southwest Minnesota is a small rural Shared Ministry parish, where everyone in the parish family is given the opportunity to find and do the ministry to which God is calling them.
St James Episcopal Church continues to function with lay ministry led worship and supply priests to carry out the mission of the church.
We respect the dignity of every human being and welcome ALL people to our fellowship. We strive for justice and peace in the world and work to spread the message of Christ in what we do and who we are.
Should you wish to give an offertory to St. James, GiveMn is available all year :
The Episcopal Church has a legacy of inclusion, aspiring to share and show God’s love for every human being and welcoming all regardless of heritage, gender, sexual identity or orientation.
Our church family in Marshall honors that legacy and welcomes all people looking for an open and inclusive community and faith family.
The Beautiful Gardens
the loving Ministry of Shannen Louwagie
Spring and summer have returned. Enjoy the memory
of summers past with all the Summer that are with us again
Our "sidewalk ramp" providing accessibility though the electric Red Door
The Ordination and Consecration of
The Very Reverend Kara Wagner Sherer
daughter of Gretchen and the late Curt Wagner of Marshall, former members of the St James parish family, was consecrated as the IX Bishop of the Episcopal diocese of Rochester Saturday, 7/13/24
She's now Bishop Kara Wagner Sherer. Many blessings !!
Eucharist Service with Pastor Quist
10:30 am
Link to service streaming online:
ECMN Bishop Loya has established a Fund to Help the Church Serve Immigrants
Bp Loya created the fund, he told Episcopal News Service, because the diocese has seven congregations where immigrants are the majority of members, and another two where immigrants are a sizable minority. Four are predominantly Latino, but all of them include people who have arrived in Minnesota from around the world.
“We are richly blessed by this diversity,” he said.
But in a time when recent immigrants are the target of what he called hateful rhetoric and unjust policies, “we really feel as a diocese that we have to provide a response,” he said. The full article is available here:https://episcopalnewsservice.org/2025/02/14/minnesota-bishop-establishes-fund-to-help-congregations-serve-immigrants-fill-federal-funding-gaps/
Minnesota Bishop Craig Loya has asked MN diocesan congregations to take a special collection on March 2 to add to its initial gift of $10,000.
St James took it's weekly offering on March 2 and donated it to the fund.
If you were unable to attend St James in person March 2nd, you may make a donation directly online by accessing:
https://onrealm.org/ECMN/-/form/give/migrantsupport
or by mailing a check made out to "The Episcopal Church in Minnesota" with Migrant Support Fund in the memo line and mailed to: 1101 W Broadway Ave., Minneapolis, MN 55412
.Episcopal News Service:
https://www.episcopalnewsservice.org/
Summer Pops and Pipes recital by Eminent Organist John Sherer
First Lutheran Church in Marshall MN
Thursday July 24 - 7pm
A free will donation accepted for the Kitchen Table Food Shelf Marshall
The Eminent Organist` John Sherer, has been a guest organist at St. James and is the husband of RT Rev Bishop Kara Wagner Sherer, former congregant at St James. Enjoy his recital!
More information about John Sherer on his website.