Help Feed Our Neighbors In Need!

The St. James' Parish Outreach Committee is prayerfully seeking your donations to help fund holiday meals for our neighbors in need. Your donation will enable the Committee to provide a complete Easter meal for a local family of four. Please consider sponsoring a family this Spring, or join with a friend to co-sponsor a family! A meal for a family of four costs approximately $35.00. Make your check payable to "St. James' Parish" with a notation/memo "Outreach-Holiday Meals", then either drop it off at church or mail it to St. James' Parish, 5757 Old Solomon's Island Road, Lothian, MD 20711. You can also use PayPal to donate. You will need to make a note in the payment to state "Holiday Baskets" to make sure the payment is applied to it directly. This is the link for PayPal: .

Lenten Devotional on Facebook

St. James' is offering a new resource to help you enter into the spirituality of this season of Lent! Together with clergy and scholars from diverse backgrounds, many denominations, and from across the country, Fr. Joe has contributed to and helped organize a Lenten Devotional on "Jesus in the Old Testament." Each entry will look at a different image from the Old Testament that Christians have understood as prefiguring Jesus. For the first few weeks of Lent, entries will be posted on Facebook on Wednesdays and Fridays; beginning March 22, new entries will be posted every day through Easter. Go to Facebook and "like" the St. James' Parish page to follow along, or just go to www.facebook.com/stjameslothian. You don't even need to have a Facebook account!

Hand Painted Wooden Easter Eggs

Barbara Howard's hand-painted Easter Eggs will be for sale for $10 each during Lent to benefit Community Assistance. Due to COVID, please contact Barbara at kbhoward@comcast.net with your order. Barbara will be at St. James' on Sundays from 12-1, starting February 28, so you can drive by and pick up your order. Please wear your mask!!!

New Photo Directory Now Available to the Congregation

Thanks to all who have gotten your great photos to us to help Fr. Joe get to know us during a pandemic! We’ll still collect/add photos anytime, but we'll start printing the new directories this Thursday in batches for the congregation! The directories will be available on mornings when the office is open or by other arrangement. Those who are able are asked to donate $10 to cover the cost of binders and color copies. Questions? Contact Marjie Mack at mmack3108@comcast.net.

Lenten Study, Starting February 24

If you haven't been able to attend our Tuesday 9am Bible study, or are looking to add a weekly group to your Lenten practice, Fr. Joe is beginning a new group at 7pm on Feb. 24th! Throughout the weeks of Lent, we will be reading Samuel Wells' Power and Passion: Six Characters in Search of Resurrection. Each week looks at the story of Holy Week from the perspective of a different character: Pontius Pilate, Barabbas, Joseph of Arimathea, Mrs. Pilate, Peter, and Mary Magdalene. For our first week, we'll be reading the Introduction and Chapter 1. We'll hope to see you as we walk together through Lent, and prepare for Easter! For more information contact Fr. Joe at joe.lenow@stjameslothian.com.