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, Jr. Warden & Licensed Lay Worship Leader
BC Franson, Sr. 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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About St. James
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.
The call to local lay and ordained ministry is led by a Commissioned and Ordained Team that provides a sharing and caring leadership that Welcomes All to the Table.
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In 2015 we celebrated our church building’s 125th year.
All Are Welcome Through the Red Door
On Saturday, November 8th, 2014 we gathered for the Blessing of the Completion of our Leap of Faith Project to build an accessible Sidewalk Ramp and the accessible Red Door and entrance!
All Are Welcome!!!
Red Door of Welcome.
More Photos of our celebration are on the Leap of Faith Album link
Thanks be to God and to all who have helped us achieve this goal and to the wonderful people who helped us dream, encouraged us on our journey and who found the Jasper stone that matches our 125 year old building.
We gathered and celebrated the Litany of Blessing for the accessible entrance and were led into the sanctuary to the ringing of chimes, led by Cera Richards parishioner, David Sams long time friend and Bp Whipple Mission Deacon and members of our parish family and friends who came to be with us to enter the
We sang for joy and celebrated as we entered the sanctuary with a reception and good fellowship.
If you would like to make a donation to support our Leap of Faith Accessibility Project as we now work to make our undercroft accessible, or wish to support our St. J. Mission Project to feed the hungry or to make a general donation to St. James, you can do so at any time by clicking on the link to our GiveMn site.