Worship Services
Services
Eucharist:
2nd Sundays 10:30 am with Pastor Steve Quist
3rd Sundays 10:30 am
The Rev. Marie Smith
Morning Prayer:
1st, 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
The Rt. Rev. Craig Loya was consecrated the X Bishop of the Episcopal Church in Minnesota on June 6, 2020.
Bishop Loya served as Dean of Trinity Cathedral in Omaha, Nebraska from 2013-2020, and was the Canon to the Ordinary in the Episcopal Diocese of Kansas from 2009-2013. He received his Master of Divinity from Yale University and a Diploma in Anglican Studies from Berkeley Divinity School at Yale in 2002. Joining Bishop Loya in Minnesota are his wife, Melissa, and their two children.
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.
Episcopal News Service:
The Beautiful Gardens
the loving Ministry of Shannen Louwagie
Spring and summer will return. Enjoy the memory
of summers past with all the Summer blooms, as we await it's coming.
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
Pastor Steve Quist Celebrant
Sunday March 23rd at 10:30 am
The services are also streamed and can be joined by clicking
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/93422716877?pwd=b0dSU1pKVU5nRFVQQ21kY3pLbDVwZz09
Click the link below to access the
ECMN Bishop Loya has established a Fund to Help the Church Serve Immigrants
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 will take it's weekly offering on March 2 and donate it to the fund.
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/
If 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.