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St. James Worship
Wednesday 12:15 pm - Holy Eucharist 
Saturday 5:30 pm - Holy Eucharist 
Sunday 8:30 am - Holy Eucharist      
Sunday 10:45 am - Holy Eucharist 
Nursery provided Sunday services
 

       
 
Readings for February 18 & 19
The Seventh Sunday after The Epiphany

Text of our Sunday Scripture Readings are from
The Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language edited by Eugene H. Peterson.
 
The Message  
 
 
The New Revised Standard Version  
 
Lent begins Ash Wednesday, March 1 and ends Holy Saturday, April 15.
Easter is April 16.

  


 
Adult Forum
Sundays  
9:40-10:30 in the Guild Hall
The Nicene Creed  
   
Feb 19
The third day he rose again
Feb 26
He ascende
d into heaven
Ma rch 5
He will co
me again
 

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Wednesday, February 22 at 6:30 
 in the church. 
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Shrove Tuesday, 
February 28,  
The Oyster Dinner  
 beginning at 5:30 
Tickets on sale at the church
$45

 
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During Lent,  
a bible study looking at Salvation 
 and what it means  to be "saved"
will meet
Thursdays from March 2nd - April 6
 at 10:00 a.m. in the
Guild Hall. We will discuss The Rev. Dr. Stephen Smith's book  Saving Salvation: The Amazing Evolution of Grace
 You do not need to read the book.
 


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Living One, in whose freedom creation was born as gift: free us from the need to possess, define and silence others that we might rejoice in the strangeness of your beauty revealed in flesh and blood; through Jesus Christ, our reconciliation. Amen.
From Prayers for an Inclusive Church, by Steven Shakespeare

 
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5th  Annual Blanket Drive
Please bring new or serviceable blankets of any size to church. We will deliver them to Episcopal Migrant Ministries and the Inter-faith Ministries Homeless Shelters.
Thank you!

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Calling all parents, parents-to-be, parents-in-waiting 
 of young children and youth
- there is a new fellowship opportunity called the Young Families Fellowship. We meet while the kids are in Sunday School or in the nursery from 9:45-10:30 in the Undercroft (downstairs kitchen) for refreshments and fellowship time. There is no agenda just a time for us to gather together. We'd love for you to join us and help our group grow! If your kids aren't currently attending Sunday school please contact Chelsea Whipple, chelsea.whipple@gmail.com or 993-4672 to get them registered or for information.

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A Night on the Red Carpet
 the Episcopal Social Services fundraiser,
 Sunday, February 26 
Tickets may be purchased at the Church office.

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Youth Sunday  
next weekend  
February 25 & 26  
at all the services   
           
 
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Word for the Week ~ Economy 
 
Now as in Jesus' time, there are those who believe that if we come from a "good family" and have the economic means to consume then we must be worthy of entrance into the kingdom. But the economy of the kingdom is based not in how much we earn, what we possess or even who we are but how we use what is at our disposal. How we use what is at our disposal says a great deal about whose we are and whom we follow.
 














 
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February 18, 19, 20 at St. Michael's and All Angels, Kansas City

Episcopal Social Services

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