St. James Episcopal Church - Lenoir, NC

Welcome to St. James
At St. James hospitality is our deep mission. You are invited to be a part of St. James by bringing your own needs as well as your talents and gifts to our church ministry.

Worship with us!
We invite you to worship with us
at 8:00am and 10:30am on Sundays
and at 12:10pm on Wednesdays

Our 10:30am Sunday service is also
live streamed on our YouTube Channel
(link is on this page)

Make Time for Contemplation
Wednesdays at 5:15pm
Every Wednesday evening from 5:15pm-6:00pm there will be a contemplative program provided for all who seek a time of quiet and contemplation. It will begin in the narthex (front entrance) of the church. Each week a different leader will present a practice that will include a description of a contemplative exercise, maybe a Bible verse or other spiritual reading, some quiet time, and a short period for people to process their experience if desired. Please, join us weekly and become part of this spiritual gathering. And you are also invited, if you would like, to schedule a week to bring your own contemplative practice to share with others.

Hurricane Helene Relief Efforts: The Quilt Project
It all began with an initial donation of about 60 (yes - Sixty) quilts from St. James Lutheran Church in Coopersburg, PA. The Rector believed we could find places for more quilts than that, so put out one Facebook post to a quilt group she was a part of, letting others know that donations would be accepted. And that post went viral (shared over 3100 times). The outpouring of generosity has been tremendous. But even as the donations of beautiful, handmade quits have come in, so have the opportunities to gift those quilts to people who have lost so much in this Hurricane.

The picture above is of the blessing of the initial quilts on October 6 at St. James LUTHERAN in Coopersburg PA. You can click on the picture to read about their ongoing "Project Comfort" ministry.

Update on March 13: as of this point we have received over 500 quilts, having received an additional approximately 100 quilts in the last two weeks. We have taken quilts to people in Ashe, Avery, Mitchell, Yancey, Madison, Buncombe, Jackson, and McDowell Counties. We worked with women from the Summit Church in Kernersville to provide a quilt and stuffed animal to each of the 207 children from Valle Crucis Elementary School who lost their school and are now attending in makeshift classrooms at the Valle Crucis Conference Center and Holy Cross Episcopal Church. We have worked with doctors, community organizers, fire department dispatchers, and others to connect with families who could benefit from the gift of a quilt. We have been deeply blessed to be a conduit for such gifts of love.

Creation Care at St. James
As a way of responding in faith to God's call to be stewards of this world, we are seeking new ways to support the diverse life on this planet and to work for its healing. Last spring we put in our first native plant garden, and expanded into a second area of the church yard last fall. We have changed our fluorescent light tubes to LED tubes. We moved to biodegradable to-go containers for our Room at the Table program, and added bamboo rather than plastic forks. We celebrate The Season of Creation each fall, and provide different ways of sharing with each other the things we are doing individually to lessen our damaging footprint on creation.

See our "Native Plant Gardens at St. James" section of our website to learn more - click here

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