Weekly Worship and Happenings

Last Updated:  03/11/2010  11:40 a.m. - EST - US

Parish Vision/Mission Statement

St. James Church is a Christ-centered, compassionate and nurturing parish that provides an inviting and intimate atmosphere within the Anglo-Catholic tradition where all people can be strengthened through spiritual formation and a life of service to neighbor. 

We do this through worship,

                                 social outreach,

                                 prayer,

                                 giving,

                                 study

                                 and fellowship.

Adopted January 2009

 SAINT JAMES VESTRY

The members of St James Vestry constitute the elected leadership of the congregation.  Please feel free to give them a call if you have questions and/or comments about the life of the parish.

Class of 2010

Matt Couch  614.475.3451

John Osmond  614.781.1731

Tina Wicks  740.548.0166, Senior Warden

Class of 2011

Jane Christy  614.570.1545

Neal Lee  614.451.8003

Steve or Julie Young  614.478.0560, Junior Wardens

Class of 2012

Martha Beckett  614.436.2371

Todd Colquitt  614.854.0306

Eric Reasoner   614.253.1401

ANGEL FOOD MINISTRIES

Angel Food Ministries is a non-profit, non-denominational organization dedicated to providing food relief and financial support to communities throughout the United States. The program began in 1994 with 34 families in Monroe, Georgia (between Atlanta and Athens), and has grown to serve hundreds of thousands of families every month across 44 states.

Angel Food is available in a quantity that can fit into a medium-sized box at $30 per unit. Each month's menu is different than the previous month and consists of both fresh and frozen items with an average retail value of approximately $60. Comparison shopping has been done across the country in various communities using a wide range of retail grocery stores and has resulted in the same food items costing from between $42 and $78.

Generally, one unit of food assists in feeding a family of four for about one week or a single senior citizen for almost a month. The food is all the same high quality one could purchase at a grocery store. There are no second-hand items, no damaged or out-dated goods, no dented cans without labels, no day-old breads and no produce that is almost too ripe.

Also offered are specialty boxes such as steaks, chicken and pork. Many participants in this bonus program appreciate the expanded choices. Additionally, there is no limit to the number of units or bonus foods an individual can receive, and there are no applications to complete or qualifications to which participants must adhere. Angel Food Ministries also participates in the U.S. Food Stamp program, using the Off-Line Food Stamp Voucher system.

It's both a Bargain and a Blessing!  For ordering information, please pick up a flier located on the table in the hallway between the sacristy and the Lamborne Room.

RECTOR’S SABBATH DAY CHANGED

With the change in the parish secretary’s hours (now three days a week instead of four) deadlines have shifted a day earlier.  So Mother Lynn will be taking her Sabbath on Tuesdays.  Let’s give it a try to see how it works!  As in the past, please call her at 262-2360, ext 202 or e-mail her at cartered@sbcglobal.net to schedule an appointment to meet with her. 

EASTER FLOWERS

It’s that time again—time to start planning for Easter Flowers and decorations to adorn St. James for the glorious feast of Our Lord’s Resurrection!  It is the custom at St. James that parishioners donate money for the flowers in memory of a loved one or in thanksgiving for a celebration in their life.  If you wish to give an Easter flower donation, please place the check or cash sealed in an envelope into the Offering plate. Make sure and note on the check or on the envelope containing the cash that the money is for “Easter Flowers.”  The cost of each flower is approximately $15.00. You may submit the form in the bulletin for Easter Flowers so that your offering may be attributed as you wish or contact the parish secretary  by calling 614.262.2360 or emailing david1204@aol.com.

VESTRY MEETING NEWS

At its recent meeting on February 24^th, the Vestry made the following decisions: 

▪  The minutes of the January 20^th meeting were approved

▪  The following persons were elected to serve as

                  Secretary/Clerk of the Vestry: Jane Dishong

                  Treasurer: Jeff Meena

                  Senior Warden:  Eric Reasoner

                  Junior Warden Team:  Steve & Julie Young and

Jim Turner

▪  The Annual Parish Budget was adjusted as follows: The rector’s salary was returned to 2009 amounts; she was given 10-12 days off as compensation. 

▪  The Rev’d Elise Feyerherm was endorsed by the Vestry for ordination to the Priesthood.

▪  The Parochial Report of 2009 was approved.

▪  The Vestry elected to be registered as a “Believe Out Loud Episcopal Congregation” (see article elsewhere in this bulletin)

The next Vestry meeting will be Wednesday, March 17^th at 7:15 p.m. (Following mass at 6:30 p.m.)

WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A “BELIEVE OUT LOUD” EPISCOPAL CONGREGATION

Recently all congregations in The Episcopal Church [TEC] were invited to be registered as a “Believe Out Loud” Episcopal Congregation.  According to the letter we received extending this invitation to us, “Many unchurched lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT] people in our community are spiritually searching.  They are looking for a faith community where they will be welcomed and affirmed as beloved children of God.  You can encourage them to visit and join your parish by becoming a “‘Believe Out Loud Episcopal Congregation’.”  Following the vestry’s recent decision to respond to the invitation, St James was added to a national database of welcoming and affirming faith communities.  St James is a congregation that welcomes all people and resists singling out any particular group for special attention.  However, we realize that it can be helpful to make sure people who are looking for a church are made aware of that welcome.  We hope our registration with BOL will do just that.  But the best way for folks to feel welcome is to invite them to church and then bring them with you!

Choose this link for the St. James Annual Report

SERMON TEACHING SERIES CONTINUES

for Sunday 03/14/2010

This morning Deacon Elise continues our Lenten Sermon Series on the Corporal Works of Mercy with “Visiting the Sick”.  The other six "Corporal Works of Mercy" are to feed the hungry and give drink to the thirsty; to clothe the naked; to give shelter to the stranger and the needy; to minister to captives and prisoners; to visit orphans and widows; and to bury the dead.  (See Matthew 25:31-46)

These works of mercy meet the needs of the body, and thus are called corporal works of mercy. According to Anglican bishop and theologian Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667), works of mercy are "the body and soul of that charity which we must pay to our neighbor’s need" and they are "duties of Christianity". Without mercy, our service to neighbor is like "prayers without devotion, or religion without humility" (Holy Living).  Taylor also writes, "Love is as communicative as fire, as busy and as active". Fire is a rather helpful image, I think, as we begin to better understand the place of the Corporal Works of Mercy in the lives of those who would follow Jesus; we can imagine godly love fueled by the fire of the Holy Spirit as it spreads throughout the world and ignites us with divine power for loving service to our neighbor.

Jason Prati will conclude our Sermon Series next Sunday.  He will draw from his own experience in ministry in the Roman Catholic tradition and speak to us about “visiting the orphans and widows” and “burying the dead”.  Our youth and adults will have the opportunity to consider more deeply through study and discussion the implications of these Christian duties and the opportunities they offer us.

SHARING CHRIST’S LOVE WITH

THE CLINTONVILLE RESOURCE CENTER

Thanks to the efforts of Mother Lynn and the Diocese of Southern Ohio, the Clintonville-Beechwold Community Resource Center (CRC) has obtained a grant for a new stove from the Episcopal Community Services Foundation (ECSF).  To support this effort, St. James has volunteered to serve our neighbors at CRC by providing breakfast on three Sundays in April --- the 11^th, 18^th and 25^th --- from 10:00 a.m. to 12 noon.  Each Sunday, we will need four volunteers to serve with our friends at the CRC.  We will provide six (6) main dishes (feeding 8 to 10 people), four (4) gallons of milk and two (2) gallons of juice. Casserole/slow-cook dishes should be fully cooked prior to the event; however, foods can be reheated just prior to serving (in the new stove!).

If you would like to support this effort, but are unable to attend the breakfast, you can still be a part by providing food or beverage the day of the breakfast. Just bring your gift to the church at 9:30 a.m. and leave it in the Lamborne Room.

Sign-up sheets are located in the hallway in the North Wing just outside the Lamborne Room, with more details to come as the dates get closer. Don’t miss this chance to serve our neighbors in our own backyard. Should you have any question, please contact Rick Warren at 477-8372 or rwarren5@columbus.rr.com

NEEDED FOOD ITEMS FOR

THE CLINTONVILLE RESOURCE CENTER

Please continue to bring canned and other nonperishable food items to be delivered to the Clintonville Resource Center food pantry.  Needed especially this month are tuna and fruit juice. Also, non-food items are always welcome, as the Food Assistance Program does not cover these items (think cold and flu season, think facial tissue!). Please bring your donations to mass on Sundays or Wednesdays and place them in (or around) the baptismal font before mass or as you approach the altar. Our baptism calls us to service. What better image could remind us of that vocation than a vision of our gifts to help meet the needs of others in the very font that reminds us of God’s gracious gift of new life to us in Jesus Christ!

BIBLE STUDY

ON SUNDAY EVENINGS — 6:30 p.m.

For the next three Sunday evenings we will be looking at the Passion Narrative in the Four Gospel accounts.  This Sunday we will study Matthew’s account, with the accounts of Luke and John on the two subsequent Sundays.  These narratives draw us into the experiences of Holy Week as understood from the perspectives of our four Gospel writers.  Holy Week is such an important time for us as followers of Jesus.  It can be quite helpful to have some biblical grounding as we walk the way of Holy Week at St James.  Please make every effort to join us in Bible Study.  Questions?  Contact Deacon Elise. 

CHURCH CLEANING

During Mark Gordon's hiatus from his volunteer work as our sexton, the following folks have signed up to clean the church in preparation for our Sunday worship:

 We still need some folks to volunteer to clean prior to May 2^nd and May 16^th.  What's involved is emptying the trash in the Lamborn Room, the kitchen, parish office, choir room and Nursery; vacuuming and mopping entrances, the hallway by the Lamborne Room, the Lamborne Room itself, and the south hallway, parish office, music room and Nursery; vacuuming choir and altar area, dusting as needed (including the pews); cleaning the first floor bathrooms (toilets, sinks, sweep and mop); cleaning tables and dusting in the Lamborne Room; and anything else you think needs some attention.

For more information or to sign up please contact Steve (614-202-0518) or Julie (614-572-4522) Young or e-mail them at steveyoung140@gmail.com or gageja@email.unc.edu .

Tea and Treasure Sale is coming!

Please clean out your attic and look for some good junque!  Our ECW is planning the Tea and Treasure sale for April 25^th and we need your donations to make this sale a success.  Any antiques, collectibles, just stuff that isn’t you anymore – we want it!  Call Nora Huber at 783.6672 if you need an item picked up. Or, just bring items to church and we can store it in the downstairs kitchen. Thank you so much!

TURN IN YOUR RECEIPTS

If you look at the red bucket in the coat room or the baptismal font currently receiving canned and non-perishable food items, you will realize that the congregation of St James provides a good amount of in-kind contributions to what we might call outreach or “mercy” ministries.  These are ministries that focus on helping meet the needs of others.  Our help often takes the form of food or durable goods purchased

for distribution through the Clintonville Resource Center (CRC) or some other nonprofit organization.  It also includes our Thanksgiving meal and the meals we provide for His Place at St John’s, Town Street — items and meals for which those who donate a baked dish or in-kind items for the meal are not reimbursed by the church or nonprofit organization. 

Such receipts can become part of the church’s ministry outside the parish, particularly with respect to our annual parochial report.  Our annual mission share to the diocese, which is our expected contribution in support of the mission and ministry of the Diocese and thus the larger Church, can be redefined based on the total amount of our outreach contribution.

If you have receipts you’d like to use in this way, please bring them to church and place them in the offering plate.  These receipts cannot be used to offset your pledged or regular contribution, but they can make a difference to reduce our mission share amount.  For accounting purposes, when turning in receipts please note what the purchase is for (“Back-to-school items”, “food for CRC”, “His Place meal”, etc.).  Thanks!

 SEE BELOW FOR DEANERY & DIOCESAN ITEMS.

Prayer & Worship

You will find links to .....

Parish Prayer List

Audio Prayer Files

Morning and Evening Prayer

from the BCP - Mission of St. Clare

Daily Prayer from the Church of England

Anglican Cyber Hymnal

and answers to

Why do we.....

use candles in church?

anoint with oil?

bow and genuflect?

make the sign of the cross?

use incense in church?

Around the Deanery … the Diocese … and the World ...

SATURDAY, MARCH 20TH, 2010

PROCTER CONFERENCE CENTER

STEWARSHIP 24/7/365

The Annual Spring Stewardship

and Development Conference

The speaker will be Mr. John Vernon Oaks, Stewardship Officer for the Diocese of Indianapolis. Mr. Oaks, a native of Alabama, sung on Broadway, was an Army Officer, and was the sales leader for an international corporation specializing in motivating and training sales people. He is a board member of TENS (The Episcopal Network for Stewardship). He and his wife of 47+ years boast of three children and one grandson.

Come listen and learn how stewardship relates to and is an important step in our spiritual journey:  then, starting from this perspective, learn how to develop effective year-round stewardship programs for your congregation.

The conference will start with registration and continental breakfast from 8:30 to 9:00 a.m.

After lunch sign up for two workshops choosing from these five subjects.

· Important life decisions, planned giving

· Christian concerns for our environment

· Offering of our time and talents

· Pledge Programs, stewardship of income

· Strategic Visioning for Year-Round Stewardship

See a full article about the conference at stewardship.diosohio.org and click the link to register on line, or go to diosohio.org CALENDAR or EVENTS.

UNEMPLOYED?  GET THE HELP YOU NEED!

Have you or someone you love been hit hard by unemployment?  Get the help you need – today!  New Directions Career Center (NDCC), a non-profit organization serving central Ohio for 30 years, is offering scholarships to attend their core career development programs in March.  Three life changing classes are offered on a sliding fee scale.

The first class, Creating Career Options, is open to men and women seeking new ways to use their professional experience.  The three day class will be held on Monday, March 8^th and Wednesday, March 10^th from 5:00 p.m – 9:00 p.m.  The final day is Saturday, March 13^th, from 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p .m. 

The second class, Advanced Career Techniques, is designed for individuals seeking competitive, cutting edge information on resume development, job search strategies, interviewing skills, and salary negotiation methods.  It will be held March 15^th, 16^th, and 17^th from 5:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. 

The final class, New Directions, speaks exclusively to women seeking personal as well as professional transformation.  The comprehensive four week program begins March 22^nd  and runs, Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m., until April 16^th. 

All classes will be held at the Center’s 199 E. Rich Street site.  For more information, or to register, call 849.0028, extension 100.  

DIOCESAN TRIP TO

THE WASHINGTON CATHEDRAL PLANNED

Fri, Apr 23, 2010 — 09:00 AM until

Sun, Apr 25, 2010 — 08:00 PM

The Diocese has planned an excursion to the Washington Cathedral for the weekend of April 25th ("Ohio Day" at the Cathedral).  Registration has gone so well for this event that a second bus has been added and additional rooms have been reserved. 

Judy Woodruff, an Episcopalian and outstanding journalist, will meet with participants on the Saturday morning of our excursion. For more details, check out the diocesan link at

http://www.episcopal-dso.org/digital_faith/events/74. 

Registration information will be found on the diocesan website at that link as well. 

DEANERY LENTEN SCHOOL

Formation through Worship,

Fellowship and Education

The Columbus Deanery Lenten School was developed to bring together members of the various Episcopal Churches in order to promote collegiality and offer excellent education options. This year’s host parish is the Rev. Jennifer West and the congregation of St. Matthew’s in Westerville.

The dates of this year’s school are March 2, 9, 16, and 23. We begin at 6:30 p.m. with Holy Eucharist. A short fellowship time follows worship and classes begin at 7:15 p.m. We end each evening’s activities at 8:30 p.m.

Child care will be available, but must be requested in advance. Persons requiring accommodations for a disability also must notify the registrar in advance.

Classes run either two or four weeks in length. Please indicate your 1^st and 2^nd choices on the registration form.

Lenten School registration fees are $10/person. Fees cover expenses for coffee hour, child care, musicians, printing and postage. Unused funds are deposited in the deanery treasury.

Individual courses may have additional costs for materials or books.

Complete the registration form on page three of the flyer (NOTE:  FLYERS ARE AVAILABLE ON THE TABLE IN THE HALLWAY BETWEEN THE SACRISTY AND LAMBORNE ROOMS) and send it with your check (payable to St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church) to the registrar: Rev. Cricket Park, St. Patrick’s Church, 7121 Muirfield Drive, Dublin, OH 43017.

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