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.
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.
Click on the following pages to learn more:
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.