About Us

We welcome you and any questions you may have about our services, programs and outreach. Our church has been serving Columbia County since 1855!

Thanks for visiting our website. You are welcome to visit in person, Sundays at 10 a.m. We are a small, friendly church where we know each others' names. It's easy to get involved if you choose to do so. Our church volunteers keep us going!

We hope you find beauty and peace in our sanctuary, where the aesthetics and music glorify God and we share the joy of Holy Communion, prayers and scripture readings.

Christ Episcopal Church, St. Helens, is hiring a musician to play its 2-manual Rodgers organ for Sunday services. We have one service per Sunday, at 10 am. You would prepare a prelude and postlude, and hymns chosen by the vicar. No meetings required. Repertoire mostly from authorized hymnals of The Episcopal Church. Compensation $135/Sunday. You can learn more about us at www.christchurchsthelens.org. Inquiries and applications to be directed to the Vicar, Jaime Sanders, at christchurchsthelens@gmail.com.

Lent, we say, is a time when we walk with Jesus toward

the cross. It might be more true to say that Lent is a

time when we remember that Jesus is walking with us,

as we walk through our joys and sorrows towards the

death that awaits us all. Some years we give something

up for Lent—this is historically in the church a time of

fasting, which perhaps not coincidentally was a time

of food shortage as the winter supplies were diminish-

ing and the spring harvest was not yet come. Other

years life takes something from us, and we have no

need to deliberately give something up to feel the

finitude and sorrow of our human life.

This Lent I invite you to join me in a small group to

bless the lives we actually have. We will be using a

guide based on a new book, The Lives We Actually

Have: 100 Blessings for Imperfect Days, by Kate Bowler

and Jessica Richie. Kate Bowler is the author of one of

my favorite theological reflections on loss and grief,

Everything Happens for a Reason (and other lies I’ve

loved). You can order the new book, but you don’t

have to read it to participate in the Lenten group. The

authors have prepared a study guide and provided it

for free.

This group of sharing, reflection, and prayer for Lent

will meet on Saturdays from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. from Feb. 25 through April 1.

We will keep the

meetings to an hour. Please join us.

Vicar Jaime