When my daughter and son-in-law announced in May of 2021 that they were moving to Seattle with my then almost-one-year-old granddaughter, I was both happy for them and sad for me. It was a great opportunity for them and a chance to explore a new area of this beautiful country we live in, but it really posed great consternation for me and my husband. They had been living near Columbia, and we had gotten plenty of opportunities to spend time with them and our newest granddaughter. ...
Worship with us on the Second Sunday of Easter, Confirmation Sunday! The Rt. Rev. Chip Edgar III, Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of South Carolina, is preaching; read on for in-person and online worship details....
Join us for worship on Easter! The Rev. Jeffrey S. Miller is preaching at our services of Sunrise Holy Eucharist on the Parish House lawn (6:30 a.m., contemporary) and Festal Eucharist of the Resurrection with choir and orchestra at 9:00 and 11:15 a.m. Because of the scaffolding in the sanctuary, overflow seating for the later services will be available in the Parish Hall. ...
Please join us Maundy Thursday at 6:00 p.m. and Good Friday at noon for worship! We are also offering Stations of the Cross at 6:00 p.m. on Good Friday, with a fellowship supper preceding. ...
For many centuries, Christians have spoken of the season of Lent and then of Holy Week leading up to Easter as a journey, a road, a pilgrimage that we are walking by faith in the company of our fellow believers. But even as we approach this journey afresh each year, it is all too easy to think that we know the destination and have been there before, and thus to lose our sense of wonder and awe at what Jesus accomplished. Easter again—that’s nice. Ho hum…...
Click the link below to read the St. Philip's eSPIRE, the email version of our weekly inSPIRE newsletter, which is packed with information about all that's going on in the life of our parish....
Worship with us on Palm Sunday! The Rev. Brian K. McGreevy is preaching; read on for in-person and online worship details. ...
Answered Prayers (Thank You, Lord): 1. For St. Philip’s Academy’s Primary School Director, Trisha Reese. For the school subcommittees finalizing details for the school and for the children registered for the fall. 2. For the successful GriefShare ministry. 3. For Water Mission’s Walk for Water. 4. For the successful gathering at the Prayer as Worship workshop. 5. For the annual meeting and new Vestry members. 6. For the donations that have come in for the Shine the Light campaign. For all those overseeing the plans and daily operational progress. 7. For Nathan Youngman and his work crews and their excellent work restoring St. Philip’s Church. 8. For the wonderful staff at St. Philip’s. 9. For the Flower Guild and Altar Guild volunteers. 10. For Gospel Night with Ann Caldwell. 11. For the very well-attended spiritual gifts workshop series....
Thanks be to God and all his mercies! We have just returned from our fifth Three Rivers Outreach Medical Mission to Liberia in west Africa. Many thanks to you all and to the clergy of St. Philip’s Church for your donations and prayers....
Worship with us on the Fifth Sunday in Lent! The Rev. Justin C. Hare is preaching; read on for in-person and online worship details. ...
St. Philip's family, our ministry partners at Water Mission are providing critical disaster assistance to those impacted by the devastation of Hurricane Helene, especially in the upstate and in Western North Carolina. They have already sent Living Water systems to those without water or whose only water is contaminated, but the work has only just begun, and they will conti...
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Worship with us on the Nineteenth Sunday After Pentecost! The Rev. Andrew R. O'Dell is preaching; read on for in-person and online worship details....
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A few minutes before 9:30 on the morning of Sunday, September 22, the Parish Hall was filled with the standard pre-Rector’s Forum buzz––the what-have-you-been-up-to-since-last-Sunday chitchatting, the finding-a-seat foot shuffling, and the laughter that warmly punctuates the end of a shared anecdote. But just beyond the buzz, beside the dais, Penn and Ben Hagood stoo...
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This past Saturday, fourteen dedicated St. Philip’s volunteers came together to show their love and support for our Star Gospel Mission, one of our Home Mission partners. With joy and determination, the team worked to repaint and refresh the central hallway, bringing new life to the mission’s facilities. ...
Keep Reading Worship with us on the Eighteenth Sunday After Pentecost! The Rev. Brian K. McGreevy is preaching; read on for in-person and online worship details. ...
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On a cool and partly cloudy Saturday morning in one of the far corners of the earth, several hundred people gathered in plastic chairs on a brown lawn under the façade of an imposing church. Some had traveled thousands of miles by plane and then hours more by car; many had walked. Most were dressed in their very best: men in shirt and jacket, women in colorful fabrics, ch...
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James Ray, a junior at Philip Simmons High School and member of Boy Scout Troop 519 in Daniel Island, began working toward his Eagle Scout rank in 2019. On Saturday, September 14, he completed one of the final steps in his journey: a service project that he’d planned, developed, and led by himself––and he did at his home church, St. Philip’s! ...
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It is difficult for us here in beautiful Charleston, the “Holy City,” to fathom the reality that there are 365 million brothers and sisters in our world who can lose their jobs, homes, and very lives just for believing in Christ or even owning a Bible. Yet we must not turn away from these horrific facts no matter how hard they are to think about. We must pray regularly...
Keep Reading Worship with us on the Seventeenth Sunday After Pentecost! The Rev. Justin C. Hare is preaching; read on for in-person and online worship details. ...
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Isn’t it a tremendous feeling to be able to take part in a day like Rally Sunday? We are so blessed to be able to drop our kids off at Sunday school (or in the choir room!), grab a cup of delicious coffee (oh, Perky People...how we love you), and take a seat in the adult offering of our choice (we’ve got three––that in itself is also pretty tremendous!). ...
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