Welcome
Welcome, and thank you for visiting St. James Church online. We hope that our website highlights the wide variety of worship, fellowship and service opportunities available. Please feel free to read more about our church on this site, or come in for a visit. We would love to greet you and share with you our love for Jesus Christ and for you, our neighbor.
St. James Welcomes you !
10:30 AM, Holy Communion
Online tithing and giving.
Weddings & Baptisms
Our church offers a traditional setting for your most sacred celebrations.
Our Mission & Vision
Mission statement:
Serving & Trusting Jesus by Abiding, Ministering, Embracing & sharing. Vision:
St. James Evangelical Lutheran Church is a congregation of believers in Jesus Christ - a people set apart by God for His purposes!
Click "read more" to view our Vision statement.
Food Pantry 09/17/2026
10:00 am-11:00 am
Community Food Pantry is held in the fellowship hall.
Please park on the side with the ramp.
Mid Week Reflection
The Journey Ahead in Faith with the Gifts of God
God always invites us into the journey of life in community. Consider how Ish and Isha (Adam and Eve) were made together and shared life together both in and out of Eden. Or how Abraham and Sarah were led by God to sojourner along encountering many communities. And God gives to all the Israelites/Hebrews (descendants of Jacob/Israel) the Mosaic Covenant to live in community together as a place, people, or even a way of society in which God can be known.
God’s invitation then was to present the way of God as an alternative to the ways of living in the world that were not the world’s. God’s invitation is a matter of faith. It is always God inviting us beyond what we know to places unknown; much like Abram and Sarai being invited to follow to the land they do not know. And yet, it also has a guide; that’s the law.
The law then is then like a map, a guide for the people of God to live by regardless of where they are. In time, as the people wandered from God by following their own ways and the ways of the world; the prophets (for our Jewish siblings the books of Joshua, Judges, 1 and 2 Samuel, 1 and 2 Kings, 1 and 2 Chronicles, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Hosea and the other minor prophets, Esther, Ezra, Nehemiah) all speak to the people of God returning back to God’s plan and way of life. Return, T’shuv (literally retreat), back to God’s way; back to God’s guidance.
As we enter the Fall season more properly, we’ll be looking ahead. So, now is a time for us to start planning and pondering how God is leading us in faith to that which we don’t fully know yet. This coming weekend, we’ll talk about Stewardship; and in particular filling out a Time and Talent sheet, as well as a projected giving form. We can consider these as a way to plan our ministry next year. While we don’t know what the future ever fully holds, well do we trust our guide (to paraphrase Luther) and still we can assess what God has given us to participate in see God’s love, grace, and embrace lived out in our lives. What are the gifts that God has given you? And how might we journey ahead with them so that God might bless others through us?