Update

Having spent some of my absolute happiest years in different parts of Africa, I rejoice that St. James’ has many African parishioners. For me, this makes St. James’ feel even more like a dream come true, and a coming home. Our Annual African Partnership Sunday is coming up October 14th and I cannot wait! The…

One of the real delights of being your rector here at St. James’ is getting to know the terrific faculty and staff and wonderful new headmaster at St. James’ School. This week I enjoyed blessing backpacks on the school field on the first day of school, hosting Nancy Vermette’s kindergarten class on a visit to…

“If one member suffers, all suffer together with it; if one member is honored, all rejoice together with it. Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it.”  1st Cor.12:26-27   Hello everyone, thank you for your love, interest, and help for the Korean Ministry at St. James’ In-the-City, the center of…

Hello everyone, and welcome back to school and the fall routines. I want to welcome you, especially, to our 2018-19 Church Schedule. As we continue to evolve— embracing our diversity and living into our many gifts—we have made a few slight changes.   A way that we have been focusing on our children the last…

From the Rector Dear Friends, Well, I’ve found a supermarket, a dog walker, and generally settled into my new home. And, here at St. James’, I’m beginning to grasp the many components of this extraordinary and holy operation of ours: worship services, music, school, vestry, food pantry, soup kitchen, EFM, St. James Manor…the list goes…

King of glory, King of peace King of glory, King of peace, I will love Thee; and that love may never cease, I will move Thee. Thou hast granted my request, Thou hast heard me; Thou didst note my working breast, Thou hast spared me. Wherefore with my utmost art I will sing Thee, and…

On this my first day as your rector here at St. James’-in-the-City, I am sending you a warm hello. What a joy it is to be here.   Yesterday I moved into my apartment, and today into my church office-lots of changes, all of them exciting and good.   And speaking of things exciting and…

James, the brother of John, is often known as James the Greater, to distinguish him from the other Apostle of the same name, commemorated in the calendar with Philip, and also from James “the brother of our Lord.” He was the son of a prosperous Galilean fisherman, Zebedee, and with his brother John left his…

In the business of life, it is easy to forget to re-charge and renew. Jesus often left the crowds and went off on his own. Summer affords us, hopefully the opportunity (or maybe the excuse we need) to take a break. There is a gem hidden in the old gold-mining town of Julian, CA… Camp…

Calendar Update Two upcoming dates to remember: July 22—St. James Sunday: Our Patronal Feast Day, and August 5, Mthr. Kate Cress celebrates her first St. James’ Eucharists at 8 and 10:30. Because these two dates come close together, your Vestry, approving a suggestion of clergy and staff, has decided that we should on July 22…