Letters from Leadership and Clergy

These days, updates come quickly. To help you keep up with all of the information shared, we have created a one-stop page for all of our letters from leaders and clergy.

St. James has a new Rector!

We are very excited to announce that St. James has called a new Rector! Meet the Rev. Phillip Craig! Over the past year or so, our Search Committee has put in countless hours to help us get to this joyous announcement. Thanks to the...

An Easter Letter from Bishop Skirving

Dear friends in Christ, Lately, it seems, I’ve heard a lot of people say things like “This is not who we are!” I’ve heard it from those trying to make sense of the violent January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol, from those wrestling wi...

Strategic Plan Update- Strategy #1

Strategy #1 – Energize the Sunday Morning experience in order to create a more hospitable, diverse, and spiritually enriching experience. For Christians, worship, especially corporate worship, is fundamental to our faith and to our membe...

2021 Diocesan Convention

Our Diocesan Convention was held virtually on Saturday, February 13. The usual two-day convention was condensed into a 3-hour zoom session. All efforts to make this happen produced a well-orchestrated, efficient experience and needed business w...

St. James Rector Search Committee Update - February 14th, 2021

Your rector search committee is making good progress, and remains excited about the high quality of candidates who entered the mutual discernment process with us. In early December, we received about two dozen applications from the Diocese of...

A COVID Update- The Rev'd Michael Singer

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD A COPY OF THE LETTER Dear Friends, I pray this letter finds you and your loved ones well. My reason for writing you currently is regarding St. James’ response to COVID-19. You may be aware that we cu...

An Update from the Search Committee: January 3, 2021

St. James Rector Search Committee Co-Chair Claude Bridger gave an update on our search for a new Rector on Sunday, January 3, 2021. CLICK the image below to view the replay.

COVID-19 Updates 12.09.2020

Greetings St. James Family, Due to the alarming rise in COVID-19 cases in our community and the obvious risk to our parishioners and our employees, the Vestry has voted unanimous approval on the following policy effective...

2020 St. James Annual Meeting

To catch a replay of the Annual Meeting, please click the image below: Welcome and Opening Remarks- Steve Thomas Rector Search Committee Update - Claude Bridger Treasurer’s Report - Mike Brown St. Jame...

A WELCOME AND A FOND FAREWELL

2020 has been a year of change, more so than anyone one could have expected. We entered 2020 welcoming Interim Rector Reverend Pierce W. Klemmt. When he accepted the call to join us at St. James Parish in Wilmington, he certainly was not anticipa...

A Letter from our Senior Warden, June 28, 2020

Good Morning, St. James! As your Sr. Warden, I’m here this morning to give you a brief update on all the many things going on in the Parish and to talk with you about an important subject that concerns us all. First, let me report...

A special letter from Dr. Stuart Hardy of St. James Vestry about our phased reopening

A Guide to Reopening St James Parish A step-by-step spiritual and science-based approach to resuming in-person ministries “The Church has never closed, only the doors to our buildings” In late February and early March 20...

A Letter from our Treasurer

As I sat down to write this update on church finances, I could not help but think back upon the history of St. James Parish; a history which notably includes a few pandemics, a spattering of wars, several economic collapses, and a whole host of c...

A Letter from Bishop Curry

A word to the Church regarding the theology of worship during the COVID-19 pandemic from the Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church: March 31, 2020 John Donne, Priest, 1631 Dear Friends in Christ Jesus, ...

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