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Letter from the RectorLetter from the Rector

Dear Fellow Worker in the Ministry,

On behalf of the Parish family of the Church of St Paul, I take this opportunity to wish you and your family Health and God’s Abundant Blessings for 2020 and beyond.

The month of January is always a special time, for we host a week of Services to celebrate the Feast of Paul since our church building bears that name. This year the Feast falls on a Saturday which is the 25th and we have planned a Family, Fellowship and Fun Day to take place on the “Bay Pasture” outside of the Bay Primary School.

There will be lots of activities including novelty games like sack races, lime and spoon, even some skilled games like Ring Toss, Tin-can Alley and Bull’s Eye. As we seek to be more Caring in our Calling we intend to offer Free Health Checks. Food and beverages will be on sale and the day concludes with an Ole Time Bajan Rally so please bring your tamborines, and chairs to sit on as we embrace the wonderful opportunity of gathering God’s people.

We invite you and your congregation to be part of this experience on January 25th and also if possible to attend any of the other services or events as printed on the Calendar.

Continued Blessings as we grow together in the Lord

Erma Ambrose
Rector

James, brother of JesusJames, brother of Jesus

Saint James the Just

James the Just, or a variation of James, brother of the Lord (Latin: Iacomus from Hebrew: יעקב Ya’akov and Greek: Ἰάκωβος Iákōbos, can also be Anglicized as “Jacob”), was the brother of Jesus, according to the New Testament. He was an early leader of the Jerusalem Church of the Apostolic Age, to which Paul was also affiliated. He died in martyrdom in 62 or 69 AD.

Catholics and Eastern Orthodox, as well as some Anglicans and Lutherans, teach that James, along with others named in the New Testament as “brothers” of Jesus, were not the biological children of Mary, but were possibly cousins of Jesus or half-brothers from a previous marriage of Joseph (as related in the Gospel of James).

Roman tradition holds that this James is to be identified with James, son of Alphaeus, and James the Less. It is agreed by most that he should not be confused with James, son of Zebedee.