St. James Evangelical Lutheran Church, named for our Lord's disciple, James the Less, came into existence early in 1981, when the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod and St. Paul Lutheran Church of Green Bay expelled Pastor Robert Christman and two hundred members of the congregation who counted his rejection their own. Among them were three parochial school teachers, the beginnings of our Grade School.
St. James is involved with the loosely organized Protes'tant Conference of the Wisconsin Synod. The Conference, in spite of its name, is not recognized by the Synod, since it too was born out of controversy and rejection dating back to the 1920s.
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