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Social Ministry
The purpose of the Social Ministry Community is to lead the congregation of St. James as we act out our faith in concrete ways in order to see Christ incarnate in the people of the world around us.
What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if you say you have faith but do not have works? Can faith save you? If a brother or sister is naked and lacks daily food, and one of you says to them, "Go in peace; keep warm and eat your fill," and yet you do not supply their bodily needs, what is the good of that? So faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead.
James 14 - 17
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David Babcock, Community Chair
Contact Information
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Social Ministries at St. James
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Social Ministry at St. James ranges from neighborhoods nearby with support for the Hereford Food Bank, to the inner city neighborhoods of Baltimore (Paul's Place, the Ark, Collington Square) and as far away as Honduras and Ecuador.
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Whatever your age, interest or skill - cooking once a month for Paul's Place, delivering toys to The Ark during Advent, staffing the Chuckwagon at Collington Square's Festival, collecting magazines for the Seafarers' Center, serving Thanksgiving dinner at St. Peter Clavier church in Baltimore -
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There is a place in the Social Ministry Community for you
and your family.
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Saint Teresa of Avila's eloquent devotional, composed in the 1500's, is alive today at St. James: "Christ has no body now on earth but yours, no hands but yours, no feet but yours. Yours are the eyes through which Christ's compassion looks out on the world. Yours are the feet with which he is to go about doing good. And yours are the hands with which he is to bless us now."
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Contact Information
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Community Chair David Babcock
Phone: 410-771-4466 Church Office
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Saint James Episcopal Church • Monkton, Maryland 21111 • 410-771-4466
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© 2005 Saint James Episcopal Church
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