ANCHOR LINES UPDATE

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Anchor Lines Update, August 7, 2020

ANCHOR LINES update
We are a community anchored in Christ, seeking God, sharing His love and serving others.

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WORSHIP

Opportunities for Worship
Sunday, August 2

8:30 AND 10:00 AM Holy Eucharist in the Church

Please arrive early for the screening process and bring a mask. Humming at this time.

10:00 AM - Online Worship

Tune-in a few minutes before 10 am for the online worship service on our website, stjamesfairhope.org, on our Facebook page, or on our YouTube channel. Bulletin is available on our website with this link. Take Communion at home with reserved sacrament which you would have picked up on Thursday.

There will be no 6:30 pm service in the meadow on Sunday, August 9.

NEED A BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER for at-home WORSHIP?

If you are worshiping from home and need a Book of Common Prayer to help you follow along with the service, please stop by the church office. We would be happy to loan you one during this time of pandemic. Call 251-928-2912 or email the office by just clicking the image above and we will put one on the table outside the office door for you to pick up.

If you have health concerns (diabetes/heart issues/lung issues/compromised immune system), we encourage you to worship from home via the livestream.

PLEASE DO NOT COME TO THE CHURCH IF YOU ANSWER YES TO ANY OF THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS:

Have you been in close contact with a confirmed case of COVID-19?
Have you had a fever of 100.4 or higher in the last 48 hours?
Have you had a new or worsening cough, shortness of breath, or a sore throat?
Have you experienced a new loss of taste or smell?
Have you experienced vomiting or diarrhea in the last 24 hours?
Have you travelled by airplane in the last 14 days?

NEWS & EVENTS

*CONFIRMATION is THIS SUNDAY, AUGUST 9*

Since we will not be together as a parish at the Confirmation service, please plan to reach out to the newly confirmed with cards, emails, text messages, etc., to congratulate them on their commitment to Christ and their mature, public affirmation of their faith.

The service is for the confirmands and their guests. If you would like to watch the service online, please join us for the broadcast on Sunday, August 9th. The Youth Confirmation Service will begin at 3:00 pm. The adult Confirmation Service will begin at 4:30 pm. Both services will be contained in this one video.

To view this event just click the link below:
https://boxcast.tv/view/adult-and-youth-confirmation-august-9-2020-471767
If the above URL does not work try copying and pasting it into your browser.

The service will also be available on our website: https://www.stjamesfairhope.org/,
or our Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfHbURRxmyvLJ8zalzatqAA

Youth Being Confirmed--Chloe Ayres, Annie Deakle, Claire Donald, Dylan Freeman, Les Gaillard, Crane Guilian, Ryan Johnson, Hudson McClure, Elizabeth McEniry, Trey McKean, Beverley Milteer, Elliott Morgan, Sarah Morgan, Sadie Postle

Adults Being Confirmed or Received--Misty Campbell, Ed Carlson, Jim Carpenter, Rhonda Case, Evelyn Garrett, Asheton Green Cathy Keyser, Jan King, Pattie Lipps, Andy Lipps, Alexa Mostellar, Karen Myrick, Anne Pearson, Beth Peotz, Kristen Wootten

***DUE TO CONSTRUCTION...
THE LOCATION HAS CHANGED TO THE FRONT OF THE CHURCH!***

You do NOT need to make a reservation to pick up blessed wafers (reserved sacrament) on Thursdays. Just drive up to the front of the church during the times indicated and one of our friendly priests wearing a mask and gloves will deliver the bulletins and blessed wafers to you. You don't even have to get out of your car. Now that's service!! See you on Thursdays.

Lectors and Ushers Needed

Lay readers and ushers are needed to serve for both the 8:30 am and the 10:00 am services in the Church. If you have any concerns and wish to continue to worship from home, we understand and look forward to the time when we can all worship together. If you are ready to worship and serve again at St. James, please log in to Ministry Scheduler and update your “can’t serve dates" for September and into the future. Just click on the image of the Lectionary above and it will take you straight to the Ministry Scheduler Pro website.

If you have forgotten your password, please contact the Church office during normal business hours (Monday-Thursday from 8:30 - 5:00 pm) at 251-928-2912. Elizabeth, Jennifer, or another staff member should be able to help you reset it.

Children’s Chapel

Children’s Chapel has resumed at the 8:30 and 10:00 am services. Ellen Huckabay or Anne McEniry will be leading the chapel lessons. If you and your child wish to continue worshiping at home, enrichment bags are available for pickup. The bags contain materials to allow children a more interactive experience with the recorded chapel lessons. Please email Ellen Huckabay at childrensministries@stjamesfairhope.org (or just click the photo above) to request a take-home children’s chapel bag.

On August 30th at the 10:00 am service, Father De will be blessing backpack tags and cross stickers for computers for all students and teachers. Please join us in person or online for this service. The blessed backpack tags and stickers will be available for pickup immediately following the service from a table located outside of Green Hall. If you are unable to pick up your tag or stickers, the table will remain outside of Green Hall from August 31st until September 2nd.

Dear Teachers,

You are loved and we are praying for you! We pray for peace during this time of the unknown. We pray for strength as you navigate a new but unusual school year. We pray for wisdom as you make lesson plans. We pray for good health for you and your families. May you feel God's love and guidance. Amen.

If you are a Preschool - 12th grade teacher, and you have not already done so, please email Anne McEniry by clicking the image above.

Throughout this period of social distancing, stay in touch virtually with our priests! They will check in with the parish, usually by video, once a week. Look for a post on our Facebook page and on our website under the Virus Update tab. Click on Father De's photo above to go straight to the page.
Wednesday Morning Prayer will also be available live at 10 AM on our Facebook page, our website, and our YouTube Channel (see links above).
All in-person gatherings at the church (bible studies, fellowship gatherings, yoga, etc.) remain suspended until further notice.
The office is closed to visitors. Please call 251-928-2912 if you would like to speak with clergy or office staff during regular business hours.
If you have an after-hours pastoral emergency, call 251-928-2912 and listen to the prompts. The on-call priest will return your call.
Pay your pledge online on our website: HERE. Just scroll down the page a bit. If you have questions about logging in, call our Financial Director, Jim Ketchum, at 251-928-2912. For those of you who prefer to write checks, you still have the option of mailing it to the church at 860 N. Section Street, Fairhope, AL 36532. If you happen to be out and about you can drop it off at the church as well. We are not encouraging you to get out, but we do have a drop box outside the church office that is checked regularly. Thank you for your continued support.

COMMUNICATIONS

COMMUNITY & REGIONAL NEWS

Jonathan Myrick Daniels Pilgrimage
Saturday, August 15, 2020
ONLINE

For 21 years the Episcopal Diocese of Alabama has co-sponsored, with its sister Commission in the Diocese of the Central Gulf Coast, an annual pilgrimage to commemorate the life and work of Jonathan Myrick Daniels, a martyr of the Episcopal Church, along with other martyrs of the civil rights movement. Thousands have attended the pilgrimage over the years, to march together to the jail where he and others were imprisoned, to the site where he was killed, and then to a worship service in the very courtroom where his killer was acquitted by an all-white, all-male jury for the charge of manslaughter.

This year’s pilgrimage on Saturday, August 15, at 11 am, will mark the first time it will be held online. This event is not only a momentous time in this country’s history for discussions about race, but also an opportunity to spread widely this story to those who are physically unable to participate and to those who have yet to hear the account of this remarkable man and others killed during the civil rights movement.

Our keynote speaker is the Very Rev. Dr. Kelly Brown Douglas. She is the Dean of the Episcopal Divinity School at Union Theological Seminary and the Bill and Judith Moyers Chair in Theology at Union. She also serves as the Canon Theologian at the Washington National Cathedral and Theologian in Residence at Trinity Church Wall Street. She is widely published in national and international journals; and authored several books, including The Black Christ (1994, 25th Anniversary edition 2019), Sexuality and Black Church: A Womanist Perspective (1999), and Stand Your Ground: Black Bodies and the Justice of God (2015).

More information can be found at https://www.dioala.org/digital_faith/events

The event may be viewed on the Diocese of Alabama's website: www.dioala.org/jonathandaniels, on their YouTube Channel: https://youtu.be/GzLjfb_gpg8, or on their Facebook Page: www.fb.com/dioala/live.