At St. James, we serve all children, youth, young adults, and all understandings of family.
At St. James, we seek to find a common place where all members—regardless of history, affiliation, experience, or profession, can find and foster a relationship with God in community. Our family events and ministries are to be a place where anyone can experience loving relationship with our church through meaningful gatherings of work and play.
As a multi-generational church, we celebrate the gift of faith through worship, in conversation, through learning, in fellowship, and in service.
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Hello, wonderful St. James families! Fall is here! Along with it comes pumpkin patches, costume parties, colorful leaves, cooler breeze, and yes, the beginning of Daylight Savings Time. Combine these with the pumpkin spice and apple cider aromas in the air! Amid all the busy and fun activities, we wanted to take a moment to encourage each family to put God first in this new harvest season. The Bible declares that in God’s wise plan, everything is appropriately timed. “For everything there is a season, a time for every activity under heaven…. A time to plant and a time to harvest.” (Ecclesiastes 3:1, 3)
While we celebrate a harvest season just once a year, we experience it daily in our lives. When we receive love from our family and friends, we experience harvest. When students get good grades, they experience harvest. When parents go to work and get their paycheck, families experience harvest. When we experience God’s blessings, we experience harvest. And those harvests we experience don’t belong to us. They all belong to God because God is the Lord of the harvest! All the sources of our income belong to the Lord of the harvest. Our children belong to the Lord of the harvest. Our pets belong to the Lord of the harvest. All are God’s! May we always recognize that God is the one who gives us strength and wisdom to work, and who provides our needs. God is also the one who wants us to bless others, our church, and our community.
—Love,
Ms. Krishen and Miss Araceli
LESSON PLANS FOR OCTOBER
• October 6th: The Blessing of the Animals
• October 13th: God’s Kingdom/Scavenger Hunt
• October 20th: Servanthood and “Brunch Helpers”
• October 27th: Faith and the Taste of Autumn
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