My how the summer has flown by!! Sunny days, some cool breezes, and butterflies have made this summer a pleasant season. Many of you have traveled far and wide, camping, cruising, having beach parties, and enjoying family. We now enter a season of transition as we prepare for back-to-school, stretching our minds with knowledge and our hearts by drawing closer to God through worship and a new program year. |
Church School Registration Church school begins Sunday, September 8th after the 9:00am service!! Online registration is available! Click here to register online. Click here to fill out a digital registration form that can be printed and mailed, or dropped off to Dawn+. |
Blessing Backpacks - Don't forget yours! On Sunday, August 18th at the 10:00am service (the Sunday before school starts for Calvert County) the backpacks of children, youth, and college students can be brought up to the altar at the end of the service for a blessing. Each backpack will receive a lamenated tag showing that it has been blessed. |
 Youth Confirmation Classes Youth Confirmation classes will begin Monday, September 30th from 7:00pm-8:00pm and will be held monthly until June 2014. On Sunday, June 22, 2014 Bishop Eugene T. Sutton will be making a visitation to St. James' and will officiate the Rite of Confirmation for those youth who have completed the Confirmation class. The curriculum will be My Faith, My Life: A Teen's Guide to the Episcopal Church, recommended by the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland's Missioner for Christian Formation, Randi Hicks Rowe. You can click the link above to read about the curriculum. Each youth will receive their own copy. The class will follow the format of a book club. Each month we will review and discuss one chapter. The Book of Common Prayer states, "In the course of their Christian development, those baptized at an early age are expected, when they are ready and have been duly prepared, to make a mature public affirmation of their faith and commitment to the responsibilies of their Baptism and to receive the laying on of hands by the bishop" (BCP, p.412). If your teenager (10th -12th grade) would like to participate in the Rite of Confirmation, please contact Dawn+ at dawncampbell@stjameslothian.com or (410)867-2838, before September 30th. |
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