Following Where He Leads with Plans for a Classical Christian School at St. Philip’s

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 stood with their  backs to the crowd, heads bowed in prayer.

With our Rector out of town for family weekend at Samford University and with so many parishioners eager to learn more about the plans for a classical Christian school at St. Philip’s, Sunday was an ideal day for Penn Hagood, our Junior Warden, to take the stage to speak on a topic graven on her heart.

“I hope people who hear this talk will consider deeply the beautiful, lifelong storehouse of treasure for the soul that classical Christian education offers for children,” she later said, “and they will realize that Christians created the educational system that forms the foundation of our civilization and teaches the goodness of God and the nobility of man. I pray that they might be inspired to help build just such an academic treasure house for children in the Lowcountry.”

If you were unable to attend the talk in person, or if you’d like to listen again, you may watch on YouTube. Please freely share the video and information about our Shine the Light campaign, as we hope for news of this school, of our call to make disciples, to spread throughout the community.

“I keep thinking of St. Bernard of Clairvaux’s great question to all of us,” said Hagood, “‘Quid hoc ad aeternitatem? What does it matter in light of eternity?’ May the Light of Christ shine forth from St. Philip’s for generations to come!”