The Mission of St. James
The mission of St. James Episcopal Church, Knoxville, is “to feed and tend God’s sheep,” a ministry we attempt to live out day by day.
It means nourishing our own parishioners through our vibrant liturgy, our rector’s learned, inspirational preaching, and our thirty-member choir’s glorious singing.
It means raising up mature Christians through Christian formation classes on Sunday, and weekly EFM and Disciple groups.
It means building community at St. James through our Wednesday fellowship dinners and the meetings of our ECW and Daughters of the King, our Men’s Group, our Episcopal Peace Fellowship, and many other groups.
Having been fed ourselves, we are able to help the transitional neighborhood--and world--around us, whether through our Doorstep Ministry’s daily gifts of food or bus passes or our Helping Hands Food Pantry’s distributions of non-perishable food to more than a hundred people every other Saturday, through our Mobile Meals volunteers or Appalachian Resource Team workers, through our Career Closet, which provides interview clothes to job-seeking women, or through the countless, often anonymous, charitable acts of our members.
To walk into our nave or parish hall is to enter a community that embraces both the Gospel call to personal transformation and the Gospel command to bring God’s kingdom to the world in which we live. Any day of the week you are likely to see this lively process of feeding and being fed under way at St. James Church.
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