THIS SUNDAY IS FORMATION SUNDAY

Come to Michaux House this Sunday at 10:15 to learn our formation plans for the coming year.

Youth Ministry, Third Floor of Michaux House

On the third floor of Michaux House, learn all the ways you can engage this year through our Youth Ministry – hikes, retreats, social events, acolytes, Confirmation, Sunday morning youth group, and so much more!

Children's Ministry, Second Floor of Michaux House

On the second floor, you can learn about our Godly Play and Growing in Faith – our Children’s Ministry plans.

Adult Formation, Valentine Hall

And in Valentine Hall you can connect and reconnect with the clergy and other parishioners, and hear about Adult Formation opportunities for the program year. We will have coffee and sweet treats, and time for fellowship and connection.

Click here to register your child or youth for the 2023-2024 Sunday formational activities. 

Can’t wait to see you! 

Monday, September 18

Doug's Book Discusssion - 7:30 pm, on Zoom

Here is the Zoom link.

Doug's book: What Christ Thinks of the Church, An Exposition of Revelation 1-3 

by John Stott

Tuesday, September 19

Tuesday Men's Bible Study - 7:30 am, Valentine Hall

This popular Men's group returns this Tuesday.

The group meets weekly for an hour of fellowship,

discussion of the bible, and good food.

Contact: Patrick Strickler, jpstrickler@verizon.net

     Stephen Spraker, stspraker@gmail.com

Wednesday, September 20

Living Faith Bible Study - 10 to 11:30 am

Currently on Zoom (in person gatherings TBD)

This opportunity for spiritual refreshment and enlightenment begins with fellowship, a prayer followed by study and discussions that help to make our Christian faith a “living faith” and apply the witness of the Scripture to our everyday lives. 

Contact: Contact: Betsy Trow (804) 282- 4152 or betsytrow@gmail.com

Wednesday Night Dinner - 6 pm, Valentine Hall

It's Week 2 of our popular Wednesday Night Dinners, now at a new time -- 6 pm.

We’re also not asking for RSVPs – just show up and enjoy the evening.

The suggested donations are: Children, $5; Adults $10, Families, $25.

You can pay in cash, check or credit card.

Peek at the Week is now on the website (doers.org) too. So if you need to check in on what’s going on this coming week, click on the Peek at the Week banner (The Week's Events) on the home page: doers.org

• DOERS Doing
• Come be an acolyte - Training is Sept. 24
• Concert to benefit Ukraine
• Save the date for THE CELEBRATION
• THE DOERS Guide is now available online

• Wednesday night dinner at a new time plus season pass available
• Summer Book Club Book #3 - Doug's book discussion
• Fall dates to remember
• Prayers of The People Update
• Diocese of Virginia

There are so many opportunities

to work with St. James’s outreach partners right now.

CARITAS Community Day

needs volunteers

Next Saturday, September 23rd, CARITAS will welcome previous program participants back to CARITAS for their Alumni Association Block Party. St. James’s will help provide volunteers to serve food and provide family activities. All ages are welcome to come volunteer.

The event will take place from 10:30am-3:30pm (though the busy time for food will be 11am-2pm) at their Stockton Street location (2220 Stockton Street). Signup here.

Contact Carrie Acey at linovet1@gmail.com or the Rev. Blake Singer at bsinger@doers.org for more information.

ReWork is seeking vehicle donations

One of our community partners, ReWork, is seeking three used cars for their program participants. These cars enable ReWork members to access and sustain employment. If you have a care to donate, ReWork will get it checked out, fix what is necessary, and then “sell” it to the ReWork member at a greatly reduced price. All donations to ReWork Richmond are fully tax deductible.

Please call or email Mark Murphy at markmurphydmm@gmail.com, (203-249-2164), or Ferd Baruch at ferd.baruch@reworkrichmond.org, (804-314-5401) to donate a car.

Now’s a great time to volunteer with Greater Richmond SCAN.

Richmond CASA (another one of our community partners) is looking for volunteers to advocate for children in the court system who have been abused or neglected. They’re now accepting applications for their Fall 2023 Training Class that begins on September 26th.

For questions about applying or to get more information about Richmond CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates), contact the Volunteer Coordinator, Sarah-Keel Crews, at volunteer@grscan.com or 804-646-5184.

There's something special about being an acolyte.

Our acolyte lunch/taining is Sunday, September 24, 12:30-2pm

Acolytes are valuable members of worship each Sunday. They help our liturgies flow smoothly by quietly carrying torches, crosses, offering plates, bearing the Gospel Book in procession and at the proclamation, and more. Fifth graders and up are welcome to join.

New and returning acolytes should fill out this form and we’ll contact you with more information.

Concert

to benefit Ukraine

Friday, September 29

While the war in Ukraine doesn’t dominate the headlines the way it once did, the needs of the Ukrainian people are as urgent as ever.

With that in mind, St. James’s is hosting The Concert for Ukraine – an organ recital from renowned organist Gail Archer. Admission is free but all donations will go directly to the Ukraine Crisis Fund at Episcopal Relief and Development.

In addition to being an accomplished and inspiring organist, Archer is a music director, choral conductor and a Professor of Professional Practice at Barnard College, Columbia University, and the founder of an international forum for women organists called Musforum. She directs the ‘Barnard-Columbia Chorus & Chamber Choir’ and the ‘Music Program’ of Barnard College, Columbia Universityand is College Organist of Vassar College. 

The evening also includes brief but powerful presentations by Oksana Stakhnevych and Aleksandr Misiats from the Ukrainian Community of Virginia. Please save the date – Friday, September 29 – and share the news of this important cultural event with all your friends.

Save the date for

THE CELEBRATION

of the year. 

Wednesday, October 25 is a night you’ll want to remember because it promises to be a night you won’t soon forget. Amazing food, wonderful company, and, of course, musical surprises await you at The Celebration, a feast of goodwill and connection.

Once again we’ll gather at the Dewey Gottwald Center at the Science Museum of Virginia to celebrate our lives together at St. James’s.

There’s more information to come but we wanted to make sure this lovely event gets on your calendar. 

Introducing the DOERS Guide.

Back in the day, we called it the Resource Guide. But it’s been renamed the DOERS Guide because, well, we're doers.

This is a simple guide to everything going on here at St. James’s. From how you can serve to ways to learn and sing – not to mention give and gather – the DOERS Guide is the easy way to discover all the ways to engage with St. James’s.

You can find it at doers.org/guide. And because it’s online, we can constantly update and/or correct the contents so you can be certain it has the most up-to-the-minute information. 

If you have any additions or corrections, please send them to Jay Sandusky, director of communications, at jsandusky@doers.org. 

Wednesday Night Dinners

Wednesday night dinners are now at 6pm, to make it easier to get here after work. Plus you can pay with a debit or credit card.

We’re also not asking for RSVPs – just show up and enjoy the evening.

All the meals will be prepared by St. James’s cooking teams, and will include wine.

The suggested donations are: Children, $5; Adults $10, Families, $25. The Wednesday Night dinners will be run through November 8 (except for October 25, the night of The Celebration.) 

We’re also going to be offering Season Passes, which offer discounted prices to our eight Wednesday dinners this fall. Adult Season Passes are $56 and Family Season Passes are $176. You can pay in cash, check or credit card.

Book Discussion

this Monday at 7:30 pm

Doug's Zoom book discussion will be this coming Monday, September 18 at 7:30 pm. Here is the Zoom link.

Doug's book is What Christ Thinks of the Church, An Exposition of Revelation 1-3 by John Stott, Rector Emeritus, All Souls Church, Langham Place, London. 

Fall Dates to Remember

As we look ahead to our new program year, there’s a lot happening, but we want to alert you to a few events so you can get them on your calendar now.

Click here to see some of our Fall highlights. 

Prayers of the People Update

Because our services are live-streamed and aired on YouTube, which anyone can see, we have decided for privacy and security reasons to not say the last names of the people we’re praying for each Sunday morning. But if you want to see the list with last names included, see the link below. Thanks for your understanding. 

Here are the names of those we're remembering in our prayers this week.

We do our best to keep this list current, but if you want your name added or removed, please email Mary Brown at mbrown@doers.org or call her at 804-355-1779 ext. 313