Welcome

Welcome to St. James! Whether you are looking for a new church home or are just curious about what St. James has to offer, our doors are open to you – except when they’re not!

You see, for the next little while, we’re a temporarily displaced congregation on Sunday mornings. But it’s a good thing, not a bad thing. We’re renovating our sanctuary, which has served us so well for the past 60-some years. We hope to return home sometime this spring to a freshly painted, freshly carpeted, freshly paneled and freshly lighted worship space. It will be beautiful!

In the meantime, we’re worshiping down the road, with our sister congregation, St. John Chrysostom Episcopal Church, 13151 W. 28th Ave., Golden. That’s just 10 minutes west of St. James, and we hope you’ll join us there on Sundays. You’ll get to meet two great congregations for the price of one!

During the week, all the stuff that regularly happens at Saint James will continue to happen at St. James. Our Wednesday healing service has moved into the parish hall for the duration.

Our Sunday morning service is live-streamed to our YouTube page.

We extend a special welcome to those who know and love the Episcopal Church – as well as those who think we don't sing as well as the Lutherans, can't preach as well as the Methodists, are a knockoff of the Catholics, and aren't as lively as the Baptists. We’d still put our Coffee Hour up against anybody’s!

We welcome you, even if you haven't been to church in a long, long time, can't believe we start so early, don't understand why the service takes a full hour, and would really rather be home watching the Broncos. 

We welcome you, even if you're too old to drive after dark, too broke to put some money in the offering plate, too arthritic to kneel, too tone deaf to sing or too preoccupied with the cares of the world to really pay attention. We welcome you even if you only came because the Indian restaurant down the street hasn't yet opened for lunch.

We welcome Republicans and Democrats, high churchers and low churchers, those just out of college and those just out of prison, Colorado natives and Colorado newcomers.

We especially welcome you if, at sometime in your past, the church did something to you that crushed your spirit, wounded your heart, and cursed you with a burning resentment that continues to this day. Thank you for giving us another chance: A chance to make amends; a chance to try to make whole that which was broken; a chance to help make new that which had grown old; a chance to lift up that which had been cast down; a chance to bring about reconciliation, forgiveness and peace. We like to think that's really what we do best.

Thank you for taking the time to check out our community, to get to know us, and to stand beside us as we enter into the timeless mystery of our faith: Christ has died. Christ is risen. Christ will come again. We hope you will too.