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Memorial Day May 30, 2016
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St. James Youth Summer
"Wise Up" Learning Wisdom From A Fool
Join us Sunday mornings for our Summer Youth Sunday School series on Proverbs. We will be wising up and pitying the fool as we dive into this Old Testament treasure! Bring your bibles and join us in the youth portable on Sundays from 9-10 a.m.
May 29, June 12, July 10,
July 17, July 31 and August 7
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Austin Street Shelter Sunday
Austin Street Shelter Sunday is Sunday, June 5th.
Derek Claybrook's team will be serving and will gather in the Parish Hall at 5 p.m. and leave at 5:15 p.m. If you have any questions, please contact the church office.
Please come join our caravan to the shelter to help serve meals. If you have donations of hard-boiled eggs or cookies, you can leave them in the kitchen of the Parish Hall before 5 p.m. If you can't help serve, we also need volunteers to help us prep the food immediately after our 10 a.m. service.
June - Derek Claybrook's team
July - Sara and Chad Fox's team
August - Amanda Payne's team with youth
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Calling All Prayer Warriors:
Pilgrimage Prayer Support Needed!
Our own Claudia Stephens is making a pilgrimage this summer. She plans to walk the Way of St. James (Camino de Santiago de Compostela) across the north of Spain. Each day from June 2-July 15, Claudia will walk a segment of this 500-mile pilgrim trail.
St. James will be supporting Claudia as she walks by joining her in prayer, one day at a time. Please take a moment to visit Claudia's Prayer Team Page where you can sign up to take a prayer shift.
Pl
ease also mark your calendars for this Sunday, May 29
so that you can join us as we commission Claudia for her journey at the 10:00 a.m. service. Claudia prayerfully hopes to return to us on St. James Day, a fitting day to return from her pilgrimage along the Way of St. James!
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This Sunday's Readings:
The Second Sunday After Pentecost
I Kings 18:20-21, 30-39
Psalm 96
Galatians 1:1-12
Luke 7:1-10
Preacher: The Rev. Roger Button
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Liturgical Servers for Sunday, May 29, 2016
Vergers: Joe French (8) and Scott Doggett (10)
Readers: Jon Cagley (8) and Kenneth Lawrence (10)
Server: Betsy Elam
Bells: Hannah Hatfield
Chalice: Joel Hatfield
Crucifer: Trevor Tankersley
Torchers: Natalie and Grant Shafer
Ushers: Steve Erwin and Russ Pate (8) and Janet and
Frank McColloch, Justin Baldwin, and Donna Robinson (10)
Audio: Rob Klarer
Altar Guild: Mary Jo Ashley, Jeanann Stewart, Colleen French, Mary Ann Johnson, Hanna McKee, and Miriam Grayson
LEVs: Russ Pate, Miriam Grayson, Loree Birkenback, and
Kathy Townsend
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Home Depot Is Coming To Vacation Bible School
The theme for this year's vacation bible school is "Building up God's House" and Home Depot will join us at St. James to help with our building theme.
5:30 - 7:00 pm
with a family dinner Friday night
Children ages 3 and up
Registration form can be found here or in the Narthex. Please register your child now so we can properly prepare for the week.
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St. James Church Chicks
Church Chicks meet about
6:30 p.m. in the parish hall each Tuesday evening. We usually have a meal (e.g. pizza, Subway, quesadillas, chicken) and we visit until about 7:20. Then we join Roger for bible study in the conference room.
Come join us!
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Help Us Identify Our Graduates!
Each year we honor our graduates as they step forward into a new phase of life. While we know of many upcoming graduates, we don't want to miss anyone in our celebration!
Please email Amanda Payne with details about your graduates!
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Youth Summer Mission Trip
High School and Middle School Students are invited to join us for a unique mission experience in Paton, Iowa from June 19th through the 24th. We will be serving this small town of 200 with beautification projects, doing home repairs for elderly residents, working in local food pantries and more. Don't miss this amazing opportunity to serve. Cost is $450 per student and scholarships are available.
For More Information please contact Amanda Payne.
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Let's Go To Camp
It's time to register for summer camp! students who will be 3rd graders or older next school year are invited to an
amazing week of summer camp at Camp All Saints.
Camp sessions run from June 19 through July 16.
St. James' Jr. High students are attending together from June 26 - July 2
High School Camp is July 10-16.
The cost of Camp is $450 per student, and scholarships are available if needed. Register online at
Camp All Saints.
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Calling All Youth
Time To Register for Summer in the City
July 24-29, all students in 6th grade and up are invited to serve our Dallas neighbors. This week-long program gives students a chance to experience missional serving while staying close to home. Students will stay at St. Matthews Cathedral in Dallas while working in surrounding neighborhoods. Cost is $120 per student, and scholarships are available. For more information, contact
Amanda Payne.
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Sermon & Education Recordings
Our sermons and adult education classes are recorded and made available online! This is a wonderful way to stay in touch if you are traveling or have to be away on a Sunday
morning.
Please also consider sharing sermons or classes that are particularly useful to you with friends and family who might not attend St. James (or any other church). We hope these resources might draw others into fellowship with us at St. James.
For sermons, visit the Sermons page on our website. For adult education classes, check out our SoundCloud stream.
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St. James Women's Retreat
Save the date for the St. James Women's Retreat, coming this October 14-16. The retreat is in the preliminary planning stages, so stay tuned for details.
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Exodus Bible Study
 Bible Study of the Old Testament book of Exodus:
Have you ever wondered about how the people of God related (or related poorly) to God in ancient times? Have you ever wondered about the Old Testament foundation of our New Testament faith? Have you ever wanted to learn more about the greatest act of salvation God worked before New Testament times? Then please consider joining us every Tuesday night, 7:30 pm to 8:30 pm, as Deacon Roger Button leads a discussion-rich study of the book of Exodus in St. James' main conference room (in the A-frame building of the parish).
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Spiritual and Social Activities
9 - 10 a.m.
Youth Sunday School
6:15 pm - 7:30 pm
Church Chicks Fellowship with lite shared meal in Parish Hall, then join Deacon Roger's Bible Study
Bible Study with Deacon Roger Button in the A-frame conference room
10:00 am Holy Eucharist in Chapel
10:30 am Bible Study with Fr. Gardner
Thursday
7 pm - 9:30 pm
Ping Pong in Parish Hall
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Do You Have A Prayer Request?
St. James is a community characterized by prayer. Please share your prayer concerns with us: it is our joy to lift up your prayer concerns to the Lord just as we lift up our own. We welcome you to bring these concerns to our clergy or the church office or you can share them with us on a prayer request form (located in the entry to the Church) or through our website under the heading "Connect."
James 5:13-14 Are any among you suffering? You should pray... Are any among you sick? You should call for the elders of the church and have them pray over you, anointing you with oil in the name of the Lord.
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