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 05/21/2026
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
Become
There are several ways to ‘become’ part of a family, a community, a church, a club, etc. I’ve spoken of one way already: belonging; identifying connection and a sense of belonging leads one to become. In short, ‘I’m here, and been here; therefore, I have become part of the community.’ To what have you become a part of because you felt a sense of belonging?
Another way to become a part of something is by birth. Families are the best example of this. Each of us are born (shocker, I know); and we become part of a family. That could be our biological family or an adopted family. When I was born, I became part of my family of origin. And when my wife and I welcomed our daughters into the world they both became part of our family.
This is also true of being a child of God. As each person is imbued with the image of God (imago dei), every person to have ever existed is therefore part of God’s family. God made them that way! It was formed in the womb as God crafted each of us; so that we might become part of something bigger than ourselves and live in community!
Becoming a Christian then, for many in our tradition, is something that we are born into. When we baptize infants we are proclaiming to each other and for the infant God’s work of creation, God’s redemptive work in Christ, and God’s intention that they become part of our community. When infants are baptized they become one of us! They become not just children of God; rather, a child to each of us. We all share in the responsibility for caring for them. We all share a role in raising them in the faith so that in time they may claim that becoming for themselves. That is what Confirmation (or as I like to claim is Affirmation) is all about: them becoming a full participating part of our community. Through baptism they were already a full part. And in Confirmation they affirm that work that God has already done.
On the 17th, we’ll celebrate a baptism. I ask each of you to consider how we might confirm/affirm how that little one was made to become a part of each of us. Consider how we might welcome her becoming a sibling to all of us in Christ Jesus our Lord. And consider how we can continue to become a part of one another.
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Weekly Reading
"For by grace y'all have been saved by grace, and this is not y'all's doing; it is the gift of God - not the result of works so that no one many boast. Because we are what God has made us, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared to be our way of life." (Ephesians 2:8-10)
