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Weekly Sunday Bulletin

February 19, 2023

Upcoming Altar Schedule

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Volunteer Sign Up!

Please sign up for Sunday service ministries for February and/or March please click the month and sign up.

February March

Come and Celebrate

SPECIAL GUEST THIS SUNDAY We will have a visitor from the Diocese of Idaho. He will honor us with the celebration of the Holy Eucharist. The Rt. Rev. Jos Tharakan has requested a full house, so let's show him some St. James Love.

Outreach News: Earthquake Relief Over 46,000 people have been killed in the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria. The death counts are still growing. There are thousands of displaced survivors in both countries. These people need to be fed and housed. Rescue workers are needing to be assisted as well.  Episcopal Relief and Development is helping the victims through their 20 year partnership with Action by Churches Together (Turkey) and Mid East Council of Churches (Syria) to provide shelters, meals, blankets, medicine and trauma support.  St. James can help! Please continue to pray and give generously to St. James Outreach. All donations given in February will be sent to ERD Turkey-Syria Earthquake Response Fund.  Thank you for showing your care and concern.

Sunday School

All Sunday School will start at 9:30 A.M.

IT IS HERE! Mardi Gras –This Tuesday, February 21 6:00 pm Our Traditional Party Time at St. James! Hard to believe, but we’ve been celebrating this annual event at St. James for over 20 years with traditional red beans and rice, music, King Cake, shoe box floats and lots of laughter and fun as we mark the last day of the Epiphany season. It’s also the last day to let loose before we begin the solemn season on Lent…so plan to come…bring friends, relatives and neighbors. Time to eat delicious food thanks to a wonderful kitchen krewe. And enjoy our kids’ creativity with their shoebox floats and entertaining parade. Music provided! Everyone and all ages get to be a fun loving Cajun for one night. Please also plan to help with our celebration…       Saturday, February 18th will be our cooking day beginning at 9:30 am. Lots of hands make this an enjoyable time as we simmer those wonderfully spicy red beans.         Monday, February 20th is decorating day…so plan on helping set up tables and setting up for the party.       Tuesday, February 21 is final decorations and preparing the meal. Help is appreciated beginning at 10 am for blowing up balloons and final decorating. And again kitchen help beginning at 4:00 pm will ensure that we will have everything hot and ready. Our Children’s Ministry team have decorated shoebox floats!  The annual Shoebox Parade on Mardi Gras night is always a highlight of the evening. And as always….

Our Compline Volunteer Update! Great News! We have two more volunteers to host our 9 pm nightly Online Compline Prayers. And we could use more to provide this comforting night prayer to those who follow us on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. This prayer ministry outreaches to many more than those who follow us each night for the live broadcast. Our online presence after the live broadcasts on these sites indicates a viewership of 40+. St James’s ministry to those outside of our congregation is vital and alive. Are you being called to help, too? Are you unsure of the technology or the requirements necessary to provide this beautiful prayer time? Then…COME…..! Bob Jackson will be hosting a training and technical session on Saturday, February 25, at 2 pm, in the Parish Hall. Come see what we are doing…it’s much easier than you think. Perhaps seeing how we broadcast will help you decided to volunteer or to give you additional insights into how we function. A willing heart, a laptop or Chromebook, a reliable internet connection is really all you need to help spread God’s message of love to so many. All broadcasts are from our homes…and you can even be in your PJ’s if you wish! Can’t come on that Saturday? Contact either Bob Jackson or me…we can get you up and running. I can personally attest to the many blessings I’ve experienced in providing these comforting prayers. You will experience them, too! So…Come…..! Become a part of the St James Compline team.  Tessa

Chicken Lady Received Help: The very amazing Jim Parmenter came out last weekend and entirely took care of the chicken pen for me. He deserves many kudos and of course extra stars in his crown. So I no longer need help this weekend.  Thank you Jim! Elizabeth James

Celebrations & Prayers This Month

This Week Happy Birthdays Evie Arwood 02/19 Eric Atkinson 02/24 Rachel Redden 02/24 Erica Terry 02/25 Happy Anniversary Clay & Stacy Stuckey 02/29   Prayers for Families This Week Haratyk, Hendricks, Hopper Flower Dedications are given to the glory of God.

Altar Schedule

Altar Guild Angela Pierce Tessa Melancon

Celebrant Preacher Gospel The Rt. Rev. Jos Tharakan The Rt. Rev. Jos Tharakan The Rev. Suzanne Lynch

1st Reading Psalm 2nd Reading Janis Micklea sung Lisa Pruitt

Prayers of the people ‌

Acolyte (s) Charlie Dodson

Eucharistic Minister 1 Eucharistic Minister 2 Usher Chris Dodson Robert Lanning  Jim Lynch

Greeter Hospitality Eric Atkinson Elaine Atkinson

COVID-19 Please take prudent and necessary precautions when in large gatherings.

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