Worship Services
Services
Eucharist:
2nd Sundays 10:30 am with Pastor Steve Quist
Summer 3rd Sundays with the Rev. Coleen Tully
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 Loya's Message 8.29.25
Beloved in Christ,
At last night’s interfaith vigil at St. Mary’s Basilica in Minneapolis, Rabbi Marcia Zimmerman offered a moving reflection on the description of Rachel weeping over her lost children in Jeremiah 31. She called us to draw together across our faith traditions to join God’s project to build a world where there are no more Rachels weeping over their lost children.
In the passage, the prophet’s poignant lament is, as ever, interwoven with a restatement of God’s promise to love and restore God’s people from their present devastation. Later, Jeremiah calls the people to “set up road signs, put up guideposts,” and take note of the highways” they will travel back to the promised land.
Weeping with God over what is lost, remembering the promise, and posting signs to point the way is now, as it has always been, the work of the leader among God’s people.
Now is a time for us as a church to do that work with clarity and courage. The plain truth is that we are creating many weeping Rachel’s by our refusal to pass basic gun control laws. The plain truth is that an authoritarian and xenophobic political movement is eroding our democracy, and clothing itself with the stolen name of Jesus. Now is the time for us to show up looking, sounding, and acting like the real Jesus in the world. Now is the time for us to remember that the stakes of the gospel are high, and that following Jesus asks something big of each of us. Now is the time to remember that the Eucharistic communities we serve are not nice gatherings offering maudlin spiritual comfort, but are in the business of subverting the world’s violence with God’s irresistible love.
When we lead with clarity and courage, not everyone will be happy about it, and not everyone will want to come along. The inclusive gospel of Jesus also draws clear lines about what God does and does not tolerate. As you prepare to preach this weekend, remember that while it is not our job to appease people so they will stay on the journey, and it’s not our job to turn the liturgy into a political rally, it is our job to keep pointing clearly and unambiguously to what God promises, and to what God asks of us. It’s our job to put up signs on the road that point to God’s promised reign of peace, so that our whole church becomes sign posters, ushering the whole world into a future where Rachel weeps no more.
I cherish each of you, and I thank God for you.
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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
Winter has 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 NY, Saturday, 7/13/24
She's now Bishop Kara Wagner Sherer. Many blessings !!
Link to service streaming online:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/93422716877?pwd=b0dSU1pKVU5nRFVQQ21kY3pLbDVwZz09
Due to the weather predictions, church this Sunday January 18th is canceled and the annual meeting is postponed to January 25th.