• Share your talent! It can be an individual, pair of people or a group.
• Make a dessert to have auctioned off!
• Donate raffle items!
• Attend the Showcase and support your fellow parishioners!
• Bring an hors d'ouevre.

If you have a talent, let us know or if you'd like to donate a dessert, let us know that too.  Please email your name, phone number/email; talent, type of dessert or raffle item. Peggy Zerger pzerger@sbcglobal.net.  

Join the Choristers in Lifting Up a Joyful Noise

Training for Young Choristers will be offered beginning in January 2015.   Children in grades 2-4 are especially invited to become members of Choristers, and older children who are interested are welcome, too. Please contact Music Director Marlene Hallstrom for a registration form and more information. New singers will meet from 5:15-5:45 on Wednesdays beginning January 7. Choristers usually sing in worship on the second Sunday of each month at the 10:45 service and on festivals and other special services. his is an opportunity for young singers to learn some basic music skills as well as hymns, Psalms and other music of the church.

ECW Game Day Wednesday, January 14, 2015

  (requires no previous knowledge, just a few dice and a lot of luck)  

Come for lunch and stay to play for fun and please bring a white elephant for a prize.

Let Blanche Parker know if you can come 316-681-3646 or Carteblanche_bp@msn.com. 

Epiphany Season Weekly Worship

Holden Evening Prayer will be sung on Wednesday evenings in the Epiphany season at 6:30 p.m. in the nave beginning on January 14. This time will be especially convenient for those who participate in activities at the church on Wednesday evenings, but everyone else is invited to attend, too. Wonderful Wednesday suppers are served from 5:00-7:00, so you can be fed physically and spiritually by coming to St. James on Wednesdays in Epiphany! We hope to see you there!

Membership and Parish Life Ministries ask for

Coffee Hour Snacks 

 A Sunday Morning Snack signup sheet is on the bulletin board in the hallway outside the Lounge. When You sign up, please include contact info and Peggy Zerger will get in touch with you. Or contact the church office. 683-5686 or office@stjameswichita.org 

Food Baskets for 42 families + Gifts for 90 people = Christmas Magic!

 

Thank you to every member of St. James who brought food, gifts or donated money. You made the amazing Adopt-A-Family Christmas project spectacular, once again!

Special thanks to the Outreach Committee, whose Chair Judy Goodpasture donated and decorated the Giving Trees, and whose members gave hours to the project; to Ron Harrison who carried, stored and then organized the thousands of cans of food and other basket items; to the Youth Group participants and leaders, who organized and filled those 42 food baskets; and to all of you who gave up the Sunday afternoon before Christmas to deliver the gifts and food.

It's been said: "The gift is in the giving." But lifting the spirits of someone whose Christmas had appeared very bleak is a truly special gift. Thank you to the people of St. James Episcopal Church for giving so much to those whose need is so great, and for helping so many people feel the illuminating magic of your generosity.

* Twenty-six mothers will deliver their babies with safe motherhood kits

* We helped ship $112,000 of medical supplies to refugees on Syria's borders

* 880 school children in India will have safe drinking water for a year (St. James)

* Twenty-two Haitian families will receive a pregnant goat:nutrition/income (St. James)

* Nineteen school children in Myanmar will stay in school another year (St. James)  

* Ten Dalit Women in India will each receive a sewing machine to bring in income    

* In Wichita hundreds of vulnerable families will receive help and support

These real examples are just a sample of the good that comes from Wichita. The time you gave volunteering and the donations you made will meet essential needs of people around the world. Thanks for sharing your time, treasure, and inspiration.

Tony Princ, Executive Director, Alternative Gifts International