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!
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Food Pantry 11/19/2026
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
Communion of Saints of All Time
“We believe in the communion of saints…” We profess this as part of the Apostles’ Creed. But what does it mean? Scholars pour over this all the time. I ponder this often; yet, not necessarily as a pastor. Rather, as a human being. Do you?
Communion comes from the Latin word communio meaning mutual participation or fellowship or sharing things in common. The idea is that we, by our very nature, are in communion because we share things in common. That’s why we find communities around nearly anything: sports teams, activities, schooling, work, and whatever else that brings people together. Christians are united in communion through the one who gave himself for us (Jesus the Christ) to show us the everlasting love, grace, and embrace of God. So, in that way we are together (right now) the Communion of Saints.
Yet, it is not just that! The Communion of Saints extends beyond just us who are living now. Before we were us as a community now; there was the existence of the Communion of Saints in the past. And those people are still the Communion of Saints, because the thought is typically that the saints are those who only come before us. Why do you think at award shows and such there are memoriums for those whom the community has lost since it last met.
However, in Christ, God pulls the two descriptions together. In Christ, God connects the past with the present! Both those who have come before and those of us now are the Communion of Saints. This coming Sunday, the church recognizes it as All Saints’ Day. This day is a chance to understand the connectedness of those two groups, the past and the present, as we remember God’s work in our lives. As a practice, we light candles to celebrate the everlasting light and life that we all share in God through Jesus Christ. So, when you come Sunday, come to celebrate what God has given us already.
And now, I push us just a bit further: what if the definition of the Communion of Saints also included those yet to come? The children we hope to have. The grandchildren. The great grandchildren. Those we don’t yet know. Those whom we might not know until the resurrection. They too are part of the Communion of Saints. So, this coming Sunday may we light our candles for those of the past; and light one for those yet to come, so that we can imagine/glimpse just how expansive the Communion of Saints is in Christ Jesus our Lord.