During the week of the 2022 Tea Room, the Open Door Ministry at St. Philip’s kept the sanctuary open for prayer and visits from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. each day. On Wednesday, I served as a greeter with Penn Hagood from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. If you had asked me before we began how many visitors I anticipated might come in that three-hour window, I probably would have said somewhere between 50 and 75. Boy, was I wrong! During that time, we had over 350 visitors!...
I don’t always find it to be so, but this Lent was a challenging season of self-examination that continues. However, in a recent moment of quiet, the Lord impressed upon me a very uplifting analogy between our spiritual lives and the physical pattern of conception, pregnancy, and birth....
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Worship with us on the Fifth Sunday of Easter! The Rev. Ryan T. Streett, Rector of Holy Trinity Anglican Church in Madison, MS, and former Assistant for Young Adult and College Ministry at St. Philip's, is preaching. Read on for in-person and online worship details. ...
Answered Prayers: 1. For wonderful participation in all of the Holy Week and Easter services. 2. For the State Supreme Court decision that found in favor of St. Philip’s and 13 other churches to keep their properties. 3. For the wonderful success of the Tea Room outreach. 4. For the successful completion of the Foundations class. 5. For the 40-plus adults confirmed and the 70-plus children confirmed....
Worship with us on the Fourth Sunday of Easter! The Rev. Brian K. McGreevy is preaching; read on for in-person and online worship details. ...
Our sister church, St. Jean Baptiste, along with the other nine churches on the island of La Gonâve in Haiti, are pressing forward with miraculous progress in spite of the lingering pandemic and travel restrictions, tragic political unrest and violence, food and medical insecurities, and severe drought. Truly we have witnessed the power of the Holy Spirit over the past two and half years that shows us much can come from little when we rely on faith, perseverance, and the resilience of our dear brothers and sisters with the current circumstances and conditions. ...
Worship with us on the Third Sunday of Easter! The Very Rev. Dr. Henry L. Thompson III (Laurie), Dean of the Trinity School for Ministry, is preaching; read on for in-person and online worship details. ...
Discipleship starts in the home and with weekly attendance to the Church’s sacramental life! If you want your kids to follow Jesus, then you and your spouse had better be the ones to lead the way. After that, in her wisdom, the Church guides families to Sunday School, VBS, and Youth Group! The Bride of Christ teaches, molds, and forms the patterns of life that become the firm foundation for a journey of discipleship that will last a lifetime. Confirmation is not a singular moment in our lives but a daily reminder to pick up your cross and follow Jesus....
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. ...
When the war in Ukraine burst upon the global stage, many Americans were stunned by the tragic events occurring there. Even in distant places like Rwanda, reports of the Ukrainians’ blistering reality have spewed out like shock waves into their homes. Many Rwandese have only recently learned about the ethnic connections between the Ukrainians and their Russian families a...
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St. Philip’s families, as we get ready to enter into the liturgical season of Lent, I want to challenge you to read the Bible together as a family. New Lenten disciplines can feel like New Year’s resolutions, something that we start with the best of intentions but usually don’t follow through with. Therefore, I am encouraging you to choose a level of the challenge th...
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Worship with us on the Third Sunday in Lent! The Rev. Jeffrey S. Miller, Rector, is preaching; read on for in-person and online worship details. ...
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We are very happy to announce that Alexandra “Zippy” Hood is going to be joining the St. Philip’s ministry staff this summer as the Associate Music Director! In the music department’s March 15 video announcement, Zippy said, “One of the things I love about life is getting to know our community. I love getting to know our children, the people here, the familie...
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At the end of February, five St. Philippians who sit on the board of the LAMB Institute, one of St. Philip’s world mission partners, journeyed to Honduras: Susan Keller, Guv and Tammy Gottshalk, and my wife, Elizabeth, and I. Board member Joanna Macmurphy was involved with upcoming wedding festivities and was unable to make the trek to Tegucigalpa....
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Worship with us on the Second Sunday of Lent! The Most Reverend Doctor Foley T. Beach, Archbishop of the Anglican Church in North America, is preaching at both services and speaking at the Rector's Forum; read on for in-person and online worship details. ...
Keep Reading My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations.”––Isaiah 56:7 “The effective fervent prayers of a righteous man avails much.”––James 5:16a Answered Prayers 1. For the increase in all of our services. 2. For the new members of the vestry. 4. For the well-attended annual meeting. 5. Thanksgiving that COVID-19 seems to be getting un...
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Worship with us on the First Sunday in Lent! The Rev. William K. Christian is preaching; read on for in-person and online worship details. ...
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Worship with us on Ash Wednesday! We will be offering three services of Penitential Eucharist and Imposition of Ashes; the Rev. Justin C. Hare will be preaching. All three services will be in the church due to the construction in the area of the chapel....
Keep Reading Worship with us on the Last Sunday of Epiphany! The Rev. Brian K. McGreevy is preaching; read on for in-person and online worship details. ...
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