ALTAR GUILD
“So we are to use our different gifts in Accordance with the grace that God has given us....” Romans 12:6
St. James is blessed to have an active, dedicated Altar Guild of eighteen women. The Altar Guild prepares the altar for weekly worship and maintains all the linens and vessels for our services. The Guild also arranges the altar flowers for all services, baptisms, confirmations, and burials.
"I am blessed to work with seventeen amazing women who are dedicated to the Altar Guild and setting God’s table for all of us. They are incredible women who all have a love and zest for life and God. They are creative, sweet, and hard working people who do all that is necessary to have God’s table and place of worship be beautiful, from polishing brass, arranging flowers, putting oil in candles, washing and ironing altar linens, purchasing tissues, finding readings in books, putting up the hymnal numbers, counting wafers, pouring wine, and decorating the church for our larger holidays. I am grateful to these women who have washed chalices 156 times in the past year, not including the larger holidays, funerals, and weddings." - Colette Tarantino, Altar Guild Director
We are blessed for and thankful to each of you who have given financial support for the purchase of our altar flowers and our numerous supplies. Please understand that the donations not only pay for the flowers, but also provide the bread, wine, candles, oil for the candles, and the altar linens and their cleaning. It also provides for all of the vestments and altar hangings and their care. We hope that you will continue to remember memorial and thanksgiving donations to St. James. There are many Sundays where contributions are given for thanksgivings and memorials. We cannot operate without your spiritual and financial support.
If anyone is interested in becoming a member of the Altar Guild, please contact Colette Tarantino. We also accept donations for the work of the Altar Guild.
“So we are to use our different gifts in Accordance with the grace that God has given us....” Romans 12:6
St. James is blessed to have an active, dedicated Altar Guild of eighteen women. The Altar Guild prepares the altar for weekly worship and maintains all the linens and vessels for our services. The Guild also arranges the altar flowers for all services, baptisms, confirmations, and burials.
"I am blessed to work with seventeen amazing women who are dedicated to the Altar Guild and setting God’s table for all of us. They are incredible women who all have a love and zest for life and God. They are creative, sweet, and hard working people who do all that is necessary to have God’s table and place of worship be beautiful, from polishing brass, arranging flowers, putting oil in candles, washing and ironing altar linens, purchasing tissues, finding readings in books, putting up the hymnal numbers, counting wafers, pouring wine, and decorating the church for our larger holidays. I am grateful to these women who have washed chalices 156 times in the past year, not including the larger holidays, funerals, and weddings." - Colette Tarantino, Altar Guild Director
We are blessed for and thankful to each of you who have given financial support for the purchase of our altar flowers and our numerous supplies. Please understand that the donations not only pay for the flowers, but also provide the bread, wine, candles, oil for the candles, and the altar linens and their cleaning. It also provides for all of the vestments and altar hangings and their care. We hope that you will continue to remember memorial and thanksgiving donations to St. James. There are many Sundays where contributions are given for thanksgivings and memorials. We cannot operate without your spiritual and financial support.
If anyone is interested in becoming a member of the Altar Guild, please contact Colette Tarantino. We also accept donations for the work of the Altar Guild.