April 2019 The Strong, Gentle, Loving Arms of Christ Maintain and increase outreach opportunities so that the Good News is put into action beyond our buildings One of the goals set by the vestry for the parish is to disabled during Christmas and Easter and into the both maintain and increase our outreach opportunities. lives of children with stories and crafts into the St. James’ has long known that our purpose is not to classroom and shelter. serve ourselves, but to serve others. Through our acts of generosity and love, done together as a community, We do a lot, but we have not reached the capacity we literally make Christ known to others. Whether it of our hearts or our resources. There is room for is a new backpack to accompany a child to school, a greater involvement. In the upcoming months, we hot meal so that a person does not go to bed hungry, will launch new outreach opportunities for you to or household goods that helps a family create a sense get involved in or contribute to. We will be looking of home, the presence of Christ is revealed through at our local school districts to see how we can help physical comfort and personal dignity. the children in our communities and we will be looking at other local initiatives that support The suffering in our communities and our wider homeless children and adults. world is great and it would be easy to feel overwhelmed by the need. To reserve our resources One major opportunity we will introduce is a home and to be most effective, St. James’ has identified two building project for our neighbors in Mexico. From specific areas to focus on: homelessness and children. May 31 through June 2, the Episcopal Churches Sadly, the two issues are often one. When we collect in our county will travel south to build a house for school supplies for a child, that child is living in the a homeless family desperately in need of shelter. shelter. When we rehome a family after being on the The program is called Corazon (www.corazon.org), street, that family has children. When we hand over a an organization that focuses on education, plate of hot food, the hands taking that plate are often sustainability and housing to break the cycle of the hands of a child. poverty and to create relationships across borders. This is an amazing opportunity to make a difference The list of what we are currently doing to try to and to work together with fellow Episcopalians and alleviate some of the suffering in our world is the people who will eventually call the house their impressive. We provide meals through Sunrise home. There will be a presentation Sunday, April 7 Village Shelter, Sacred Space Outdoor Ministry, and at 9:15am in the Education Room on how to be Centerville Free Dining. We provide tangible goods involved physically and monetarily. In the such as socks, coats, toothbrushes, school supplies, meantime, please check out the Corazon website and backpacks. We make it possible for two children and pray for the effort and for those in our to go to school in Kenya and we make it possible for community and beyond that are in such need. Pray families in the Tri-City area to move into new homes. for our ability to make a difference. We bring the light of Christ to the elderly and Lori+

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Lilies for Easter

We celebrate Easter Sunday on April 21st this year. St. James' will have Why I Choose St. James’ lovely Easter Lilies decorating the church for our Easter Sunday service. I first came to St. James’ because it was the closest Episcopal Church to where I lived. I came here Please help with the decorating by and felt very welcomed. I continued to go there providing a plant or plants in memory because I was comfortable. It was and is a place of a loved one or in thanksgiving for a loved one. where I could come and continue on my faith The names of the donors and reason for the donation journey at my own pace. will be placed in the Easter bulletin. A sign-up sheet is posted in the Parish Hall. The cutoff date I’m a creature of habit and attending church on for donations and names is April 17, 2019. Sunday mornings where I know the order of the service is comforting and renewing. I set aside that The suggested donation for each Easter Lily plant time during the service to listen and learn from the is $10.00. Envelopes are located by the Sign-Up readings, and Lori and Anna’s excellent sermons. sheets in the Parish Hall. You may also use your I also have always loved the words in the service, pledge envelopes. Please write “Lily Fund” on the and always find it so powerful to say them memo line when writing a check. If putting cash in together. I also need that weekly reminder to envelopes please indicate “Lily Fund” on front of the listen to God, and through his love to try and be a envelope with your name. Envelopes may be placed better person. in the pledge plates or in the office.

Katie Porter Thank you for supporting St. James' Easter Lily Junior Warden fund. If you have any questions, please contact Katie Cunningham or Ruth Poole.

Photo by: Bruce Roberts Katie Cunningham

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The Sunday School youth decorated Alleluia banners in February to bury before the start of Lent. They joined in a final resounding Alleluia at the end of the morning service before putting their banners in a box to bury them away for Lent, a season when we don’t use the word of praise and celebration.

Look out on Easter Sunday for the artwork to reappear!

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Methods of Electronic Communication

A large part of the ministry of Church is to communicate within our membership and to those not yet formally members what is happening on a weekly basis. Today, the most effect means of communication is through a weekly electronic transmission such as email.

To that end, we have two distinct email communications that you can be a part of.

The Saint James’ Parish Group: by being part of the parish group ([email protected]), you will receive informal notices regarding prayer re- quests, notices of potential happenings outside of church, parishioner news, etcetera. This email group al- lows you to stay connected on a more personal level, and also gives you the ability to email relevant infor- mation to the group yourself. If you are not already a part of this group and wish to be, please drop an email to Janet Fischer: [email protected] or sign-up in the Parish Hall.

The Saint James’ Weekly Email: by being subscribed to the weekly email, you will receive a once-a-week email directly from St. James’ letting you know what is happening in the upcoming weeks and months. This email will include the Sunday lections, special events, and important news. It is meant for both parishioners and those interested in our church. This email is “read-only”. No replies will be posted to the list. To subscribe to this email, send Alice Harrison an email: [email protected] or sign-up in the Parish Hall.

For all that is going on at Saint James’ we want to make sure we Get the Word Out!

Please Note these Instructions and Deadlines:

To make sure your announcements are included in the WEEKLY EMAIL and in the SUNDAY ANNOUNCEMENT SHEET email your text (preferably no more than 6 lines) to [email protected] (by Wednesday Morning) Any prayer requests can be noted on the pew cards or by sending and email to [email protected] by Wednesday morning as well. Thank you

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Update on Hope

Hope is one of two girls St. James’ support through Maisha Bora. They send updates on their family and school life and we are so proud of their achievements. We ask for prayers for both Hope and Miriam as they continue to grow into wonderful young women.

For more about this ministry please visit: https://saintj.com/wp/ ministries/ maisha-bora/

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Adult Faith Formation Offerings Coming Your Way

Women’s Retreat: Our popular annual Women’s Retreat will take place from 9:00am - 3:00pm on Saturday, May 11, 2019. We will meet in the Education Room. This year, the theme will be “The Feminine Face of God.” Details forthcoming as we flesh out the day.

Preparation for Confirmation, Reception, and Reaffirmation. Confirmation, Reception, and Reaffirmation are sacramental rites in which adults affirm their Christian faith as mature adults. Confirmation is intended for baptized adults, Reception is intended for baptized and confirmed adults who desire to be received into the Episcopal Church, and Reaffirmation, for adult Episcopalians who wish to reaffirm their faith after an absence from church community, or as an intentional act of recommitting their lives to Christ. The next celebration of these rites will be June 1st, at Grace Cathedral. If you are interested, contact Rev. Anna at [email protected] or Rev. Lori at [email protected].

Claiming Our Heritage: An Exploration of The Book of Common Prayer. An education class led by Seminarian Andrea Arsene. Look for more information soon.

The next issue of The Window is in May. We welcome your comments, essays, poems, cartoons, newsworthy items of interest, art work, photos, any group activity information and reviews.

Email your submission by April 15th to: [email protected]

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PARISH PANTRY Tips and Tales Through the years I have collected several handy As with the lettuce, we will need to provide a storage tips and interesting food tales. In this month’s container. For these tender herbs, I found that the contribution to our parish newsletter, I will share a medium size plastic drink cup along with it’s top few that may be handy in your kitchens. just the thing. You will need to extend the “X” cut used for the straw, to accommodate the herb stems. Let us start with the wilted greens we usually find Use your kitchen shears for this. You DON’T pouting in our refrigerator, no longer suitable for use. have dedicated kitchen shears? Moricai Kershaw Lettuce comes to mind first. Do you have a model Taskmaster Shears, at Amazon are a kitchen must with the “crisper” drawer on the bottom? And where have. do you think the coldest part of the refrigerator happens to be? You got it, on the bottom where all Back to our herbs, put in about a quarter cup of the cold air settles. Take out the romaine and replace water, secure the top and push the bound herb stems it with the hamburger and a chicken. Get one of through the top cut out, down into the water. A loose, those covered plastic storage bins. Put it on a top dry plastic bag should be dropped over the top of shelf with the lettuce heads wrapped in one of those the herbs, leaving it open at the bottom to maintain flour sack kitchen towels into the bin and snap on the some humidity around the leaves. Now you can cover. Do not wash the lettuce until you are going to pluck out the herb stems a few at a time, or snip them use it either. with your new shears, as needed, while the rest will remain hydrated, dry and ready for use when needed. Have you seen those heads of butter lettuce with the Put these on the door shelf with the mayo and roots still attached? That is a wonderful, self- ketchup. contained lettuce keeper that will keep you supplied with crispy leaves for more than a week. It can just Now let us speak of mushroom storage. If possible be left in its bin and put anywhere you have room in buy them loose, picking them out one at a time, the upper reaches of your refrigerator. Put it closer instead of the convenience of just paying more to to the front, rather than near the back. Be sure to put grab them already selected in a shrink-wrapped a couple of tablespoons of water into the container package. If you do buy the prepackaged, ALWAYS bottom every couple of days to prevent the roots take them out of that container, and put them into a from drying out. paper lunch bag to store in the refrigerator. They will not keep well in plastic, so be sure to also put the About those “crisper” bins, they will keep hard root ones you have individually selected into a paper bag vegetables and fruit, but put them in the same bin for home storage too. Even if you don’t get to them with the burger meat we replaced for the lettuce. The right away, as they wait for you to make a brown principle to remember is the top of the unit will be mushroom sauce or mushroom ragu, instead of five or more degrees warmer than the storage space rotting in a sweaty plastic prison, they just dehydrate on the bottom, so arrange your food accordingly. in a dignified manner in the paper bag, remaining still very much usable, if somewhat wrinkled and While we are speaking about things green, lets speak reduced in size. Dried mushroom is perfectly suitable of parsley and cilantro. Both will seldom last more for culinary use, but slimy is not. than a few days if left in plastic bags along with the carrots. Unlike the lettuce which you do not On to saving your tender greens and order those wash before using, these are better if washed, since Kershaw shears. They not only snip herbs, but can chopping them if the leaves are wet is difficult. I cut apart a chicken, trim fat from a multitude of leave them bound in the middle with the usual twist meats and easily cut up sticky dried dates, apricots, tie, and violently swish them about in a sink full of and candied ginger. These shears also come apart for cold water. After their bath, put them in a salad easy cleaning. Bye for now… spinner, still bound in the middle, and swirl out as much water as possible. Now trim the root ends Richard Reynolds about a quarter inch.

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Men's Group Annual Trip August 15 – 18, 2019

The Men's Group for the last eleven years has made Summer Day Camp returns to St. James’ an annual trek to Arnold or Twain Harte, CA. We from July 29th -August 2nd 2019. Look out will stick with departing for the mountains on a for registration forms for both youth and Thursday and return on Sunday after breakfast and volunteers after Easter. Any questions clean up. contact Jan Scrutton, Children & Youth Minister via email [email protected]. Every year we try to bring up a new member or maybe someone who has been a long-term members Jan Scrutton at St. James' and was not able to attend. A group Children and Youth Minister of about 15 guys ranging in age from 21 to 80+ are headed back up to Arnold. If you like to the eat good food, hike, play golf, read, fish and beer and wine tasting, then Arnold is the place to go. The tentative price is $175 for all three days which includes your meals, cleaning deposit, and beverages. Summer Camp

If you are interested in attending, please call Gregg at Opportunities 510-506-2303 or email [email protected].

Gregg Feeney

Hillside Senior Center The Diocese of California supports two summer Easter Visit camp locations with many camps offered from intergenerational family camps. There are both Please join the Easter Bunny and his St. James’ parent and child opportunities for kids aged 6 years friends on Saturday, April 6h at 1:30pm when they up to 18 years. visit and leave a little gift for the Hillside residents. Hillside Senior Center is located at 38650 Mission Check out Bishop’s Ranch and St. Dorothy’s Rest Blvd. at Pickering Avenue, Fremont, CA 94536. offerings at http://diocal.org/diocal-camps for more information. St. James’ has some funds to support Please contact Sandra Motley, Lauren Doherty or families with scholarship funds for camp. Speak to Alice Johnson for more information. Jan Scrutton or Rev. Lori for information.

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Vestry Highlights February 2019 Financials

The vestry met on March 14. Our Junior Warden, Fund Balances 2/28/2018 2/28/2019 Katie Porter, provided our meal. Operating Fund 75,101.07 46,593.36

The vestry approved the minutes of the February vestry meeting. The vestry also approved this Building Fund 48,821.16 61,034.16 month’s financial reports and accepted the ministry and staff reports. The vestry also certified the 2018 Pledges Budgeted 54,194.00 55,900.17 Parochial report which is submitted to the diocese.

Over the year, the vestry will be reviewing the goals Pledges Paid 70,857.38 50,927.96 decided on in 2018. This month’s goal to review Unpledged Contributions 335.00 993.10 was “Maintain and increase outreach opportunity.” We discussed current outreach activities including those at Abode Services and Sacred Space, and Other Op Income* 3,682.35 2,506.40 our sponsorship of Hope and Miriam through Maisha Bora. We saw a short video about Corazon Total Operating Income 74,874.73 54,427.46 homebuilding projects in Mexico and discussed plans to participate in this year’s program with Total Operating Expenses 49,365.18 57,425.62 other churches in our deanery.

The vestry also reviewed information regarding Income less Expenses 25,509.55 (2,998.16) additional security measures for the church campus. The vestry concluded additional information was needed before making any decisions.

We ended our meeting with compline led by Katie in the Little Church.

Vestry minutes in full can be accessed through the church office. Katie Porter Junior Warden Temporary Office Hours Change

From April 1- July 15, 2019, the St. James’ office will close one hour earlier than normal while the Office Administrator is on leave. The temporary office hours will be 9:00am to Noon, Monday thru Thursday. The office is closed on Friday.

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April Most Holy God we pray for: Birthdays

Those In The Military: Jarrod, Megan, Erica, 4 Ann Jamison 17 Tom Scrutton Theresa, Mark, Tim, Louis, Military Children of 7 Ian Fuller 20 Ruth Poole ACBSM, the families and Marines of Dark Horse Bob Bell 20 Elvin Maina Battalion, Caitlin, Emily, Robin, Adam, Dave, EJ Hilliard 23 Karl Drescher Shawn, Ethan, Paul, Darren, Matthew, Johnny. 13 Allen Krimmel 26 Elizabeth Hart 14 Tim Feeney Michael Hart Those Who Need Guidance and Direction: 15 Elyse Lovellette 28 Al Casas Kenny, Charlie, Marti, Gary, Julie, Cathy. 16 John Michael Butterfield

Those Who Need Comfort and Healing: Ron, Julie, Graham, Omar, Louis, Joseph, Rosemary C., Scott M., Leslie, Deborah Y., Jill M., Jih H., Kym, Bob, Greg, Beth N., Chan Family, Yam Family, Marti, Gail, Bob B., Craig G., Janet F., Ed, Barbara Duncan and family. Those Who Have Passed Away: Peter, Steve A., April Laura D., Lei, Mary G., Jim H., Midge, Shaun D. Anniversaries

9 Alice & Mel Johnson 19 Bud & Jan Pearson 25 Wayne & Victoria Krimmel To add someone to the “Special Prayers” list, please complete a pew card and place it in the offering plate OR call / email the Church Office. After six weeks, names are removed from the list. Please renew your request as needed. Thank you

Please note: If your birth month or anniversary is in this month and your name(s) is not listed or the information is incorrect, please email the appropriate information to [email protected]

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Thornton Avenue at Cabrillo Terrace PO Box 457 Fremont, CA 94537-0457 WEB: http://saintj.com Tel: (510) 797-1492

Staff Worship Times Sunday Services: 8:00am & 10:30am The Rev. Lori Walton, Rector………[email protected] Sunday school 10:15am The Rev. Anna Horen, Associate Rector Wednesday Eucharist 10:00am ...... [email protected] Jan Scrutton, Children’s Minister….... [email protected]

Office Hours Alice Harrison, Office Administrator ...... [email protected] Monday through Thursday: 9:00am - 12:00pm ** **(Temporary hours April 1-July15, 2019) Jennifer Carini, Music Director…[email protected] Lynn Locher, Treasurer ...... [email protected]

Vestry Other Important Coordinators Senior Warden .... [email protected] Monique Manjarrez Eucharistic Ministers & Lectors Junior Warden ..... [email protected] George Siegmann Katie Porter Eucharistic Visitors: The Rev. Anna Horen Josephine Amadi Bob Doherty Altar Guild: Katie Cunningham Stephen Ferro Ushers: Burtin Hart Julie Guzior John Kimber Sylvia Ma Facilities:…[email protected] Sally Morgan Convention Delegates Kimberly Patton Laura Winter John Amouroux Meg Amouroux Vestry Clerk: Elizabeth Hart Jim McConnell Ken Trant Scott Whitaker The Window Staff Janet Fischer Alternates to Convention Ralph Locher Penny Trant Katie Porter Elaine Vallecillo-Miller Penny Trant Laura Winter