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“Without Shade, Without Rest” Film Screening, Meal, and Panel Discussion
For Season of Creation 2026, St. James Episcopal Church in Hendersonville is screening the documentary, “Without Shade, Without Rest,” highlighting the hazards of farm and nursery workers, who labor in sweltering heat without heat/water/nutrition breaks, since OSHA...
Altar Flower Dedications
Flower dedications are a wonderful way to show gratitude for or honor loved ones. Sign up to display fresh flowers and beautify our worship areas while honoring or remembering special people in your life. Your name and the name of the person(s) you are honoring will...
St. James at the Hendersonville Pride Picnic
St. James will be present at the Hendersonville Pride event at Jackson Park on Saturday, June 7, from noon to 5 p.m., along with several other welcoming religious communities, including our fellow Episcopalians at Calvary Fletcher. St. James is a safe place for all to...
Who Gets to Belong?: A Homily about Ordination, a Haircut, and a Centurion
A number of you asked for a transcript for Fr. David's sermon for the Fifth Sunday of Easter. While there is no text to publish, as the sermon was extemporaneous, here is an edited version of the livestream, trimmed down to just the sermon if you'd like to revisit it....
Inaugural Recital of the Linda Lassiter Hill Organ Recital Series: David Higgs, Organist
Inaugural Recital of the Linda Lassiter Hill Organ Recital Series: David Higgs, Organist Thursday, May 15 at 7 p.m. (no tickets required) Mr. Higgs’ recital will be the inaugural program in a new series of annual recitals featuring nationally known organists. This...
Creation Care Parish Work Day
Creation Care invites you to join us for EARTH DAY COMES EARLY at St. James! Please set aside Saturday, March 22 from 8-1 p.m. for Eucharist in the Sanctuary Garden Chapel followed by a few hours of Parish Work Day clean up on the St. James property. Tasks include...
Journeying through Grief
All are welcome to join us for a new workshop, Journeying Through Grief on Fridays, Feb. 21-March 14 from 2 p.m. to 3:30 in the St. James Room. This small group will meet for four weeks and explore and support one another in their individual experiences of grief....
Choral Evensong
Choral Evensong scheduled for Sunday, Feb 23 at 5 p.m. is cancelled due to illness. Instead, we will have a spoken Holy Eucharist at that time. Join us for Choral Evensong, a beautiful, quintessentially Anglican service of sung Evening Prayer that has elements...
Tate Addis Benefit Organ Recital
Tate Addis will give an organ recital featuring prominent works of Austrian composer Franz Schmidt on Thursday, Jan. 30 at 7:00 p.m. at St. James Episcopal Church in downtown Hendersonville, NC. The recital will be followed by a beautiful reception in Stillwell Hall....
A Gathering of Gifts: iCreatives Hold Holiday Project at St. James
During Christmastide, St. James was filled with gifts from around the country to be distributed to our local Latino community who were hit hard by Helene. From Thanksgiving to New Year's, gifts were shipped to St. James for the annual Holiday Project by iCreatives, a...
St. James hosts Sewanee Hurricane Relief Team
This week, a group of young adults and two leaders have been using St. James as their base of operations to assist in the hurricane relief work in Bat Cave. Lauren Goodpaster, director of Outreach & Service-Away Programs at University of the South, is leading the...
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service
Please join the Hendersonville community on Martin Luther King Day, Jan. 20, at noon at St. James for our MLK Day of Service project. We will once again bag a ton of dried beans and rice to share with our neighbors in need via the Storehouse. We will open with a brief...
The St. James Players present “Special Delivery” on December 29
Special Delivery A Nativity sermon drama with Eucharist Sunday, December 29 • 10:45 am Holy Family, Mills River Sunday, December 29 • 5 pm St. James, Hendersonville Sunday, January 5 • 10 am St. Paul’s, Edneyville A shepherd misses the big event and stumbles upon...
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