1101 N. Broadway

Knoxville, TN 37917

(865) 523-5687


            100 years of feeding and tending God's sheep.


1101 N. Broadway St.

Knoxville, Tennessee 37917

(865) 523-5687


Sunday Worship Services

 

8 am - Holy Eucharist I

10:30 am - Holy Eucharist II

Weekly Worship Services


6 pm, Mondays - Centering  Prayer

5:30 pm, Tuesdays - Evening  Prayer

5:30 pm, Thursdays - Evening  Prayer

Noon, Thursdays - Anglican Rosary

Holy Week Services


5:30 pm - Holy Monday Eucharist

5:30 pm - Holy Tuesday Eucharist

5:30 pm - Holy Wednesday Eucharist

7 pm - Maundy Thursday

noon - Good Friday

7 pm - Good Friday

10 am - Holy Saturday

8 am  - Easter Eucharist II

10:30 am - Easter Eucharist II


Clergy

Bishop - The Rt. Rev. Brian Cole

The Rt. Rev. Brian Lee Cole was ordained and consecrated fifth bishop of the Diocese of East Tennessee on December 2, 2017. He was elected June 28, 2017, during the electing portion of the 33rd Annual Convention of the diocese, succeeding the Rt. Rev. George Dibrell Young, who retired December 2, 2017.


A southeast Missouri native, Bishop Cole graduated from Murray State University in Murray, Kentucky, with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration in 1989. In 1992, he earned a Master of Divinity at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, with additional studies in Anglican Church History at The University of the South School of Theology, Sewanee, in 2001. He also pursued studies in Art and Prayer at General Theological Seminary (GTS), New York City, in 2006, and studied liturgics In Asheville, N.C., from 2002 to 2005.


In 1998 he married Susan Weatherford, a poet, musician, avid gardener, and graduate of Berea College and University of Kentucky. They have one son, Jess.


Ordained a priest in 2002, Cole served as vicar at Church of the Advocate, a worshiping community of the Diocese of Western North Carolina for homeless in downtown Asheville, North Carolina. From 2005 to 2012, Cole was sub-dean at The Cathedral of All Souls in Asheville. He served as rector at The Church of the Good Shepherd in Lexington, Kentucky, from 2012 until his election as bishop.


Cole has served as an instructor in Appalachian Religion, Faith and Practices, and Appalachian Religion and Culture, at Warren Wilson College, Swannanoa. N.C.; Wake Forest University School of Divinity in Winston-Salem, N.C., and Luther Seminary, St. Paul, Minn. Prior to his ordination as a priest, he served for seven years on the staff of the Appalachian Ministries Education Resource Center (AMERC) in Berea, Kentucky. Much of his work then involved teaching seminarians, listening to Appalachian leaders, both in and out of the Church, and learning how to read and appreciate the culture of the region.


Cole is an avid reader and runner, and loves listening to good jazz music. He ran the San Francisco Marathon in 2000 and ran the Shut-in Bridge Run in 2006 and 2008, which is considered to be the toughest trail race in the southeastern United States. The Bluegrass 10K is a road race routed directly by Good Shepherd and Cole ran it annually while living in Lexington.

Rector - The Rev. John Mark Wiggers

The Rev. John Mark Wiggers moved to Knoxville in September 2009 to become the fifth rector of St. James. He hails from Brewton, Ala., where he grew up in the Southern Baptist tradition. He is a graduate of Baylor University and The General Theological Seminary. After seminary, John Mark served as Curate at The Church of the Nativity in Dothan, Ala., and as the Canon for Education at The Cathedral of St. Philip in Atlanta.


John Mark and his wife, Liz met at an Adults Who Work with Youth Conference at Kanuga Camp and Conference Center. They have two boys -- Jack, a rising financial analyst, and Elliott, a rising high schooler -- as well as two dogs and some fish. His family appreciates and participates in his love of grilling.  The rector also enjoys reading, music, and anything coffee related. His favorite books are Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore, and The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.


Lately he is listening to the music of M. Ward, The Avett Brothers, and The Tallest Man on Earth. He is a fan of all Coen brothers’ movies. Several years ago he was given the moniker “Father Dude” in response to his great appreciation of the movie The Big Lebowski. He would love to be more musical, so occasionally he drums and also strums the ukulele.


John Mark sees his own ministry influenced by the story of the feeding of the 5,000 in the Gospel of Mark. When the disciples asked Jesus to send the people away so they could find food, Jesus says: “You feed them.” (Mark 6:37).


Of this direction from Jesus, Fr. John Mark says “This is a call for all of us to use what we have in following Christ. If we see the needs of others we are to seek to meet those with the power and love of God. I am glad to be a part of St. James where we tend and feed God’s sheep.”

Priest Associate - The Rev. RJ Powell

The Rev. RJ Powell has served as the associate at St. James, Knoxville since May 2015 and as the Episcopal co-chaplain at Tyson House Episcopal-Lutheran Student Fellowship at UT Knoxville since January 2016. Originally from the Richmond, VA area, Fr. RJ grew up in the Christian Church/Church of Christ tradition and was heavily involved in campus ministry while attending undergrad at James Madison University in the Shenandoah Valley. In 2003, RJ moved to Johnson City, TN and lived there for over a decade where he attended seminary at Emmanuel Christian Seminary, worked with international students at East Tennessee State University, and was a member of St. John’s Church before completing his training for ordination at Sewanee.


He met his husband, Michaelangelo, in 2013, in Asheville, NC, and they were civilly married shortly before moving to Knoxville. Bishop George Young blessed their marriage at St. James in 2016. Michaelangelo, originally from Nicaragua, works as a skilled tradesman as a Finish Carpenter.


Fr. RJ serves as full time Chaplain at Tyson House, the Episcopal/Lutheran Center at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He has served the diocese in a number of capacities including as a current member of the Standing Committee, the Becoming Beloved Community Anti-racism taskforce, and formerly as a member of the Disciplinary Board, as a member of the Bishop Search and Transition Committees for our Fifth Bishop, and as a Clergy Deputy to the General Convention in Austin, TX in 2018.


Fr. RJ believes that, as disciples of Jesus Christ, we must devoted to realizing and offering what theologian Miroslav Volf calls “a compelling vision of a way of life worth living,” which is a life fervent in doing justice in our neighborhoods and city, loving mercy for our neighbors in the many ways they come to us and we can go to them, and by walking humbly with our God as a community of sisters and brothers in Christ.


RJ enjoys sharing life with his husband, cooking for (and eating with) with friends, books, singing with the Knoxville Gay Men’s Chorus, and spoiling their three dogs.

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