St. James's Episcopal is a church on a mission — seven, actually

From Virginia-

"You just gotta go," Buck Blanchard was saying on a recent Sunday, imploring members of the congregation of St. James's Episcopal Church to choose a mission and hit the road. "You can think you know what a mission is, but you don't really know until you're there."

If ever a man preached to a choir, it was Blanchard that morning in a community room below the sanctuary of the church on West Franklin Street.

Blanchard's the director of missions for the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia, and for the past five years he has worked to make missions easier and more appealing to the 185 parishes in his charge.

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