All children and youth 4th-12th grade are invited to attend the annual acolyte training session given by the Rev. Bill Christian! At this session, new acolytes will learn the responsibilities of each of the roles, and returning acolytes will learn the finer points. All new, returning, or prospective acolytes and adult acolyte mentors are strongly encouraged to attend. Meet in the parlor (first floor of the church office building) following the 10:30 service. Lunch provided! 

On Sunday, October 2, we celebrated the ministry and retirement of Audio/Visual Coordinator Florance Anderson and Organist and Choirmaster Pat Gould with a beautiful reception in the Parish Hall. Click the link below to read the notes Florance and Pat wrote to the congregation.

O God of peace, who hast taught us that in returning and rest we shall be saved, in quietness and in confidence shall be our strength: By the might of thy Spirit lift us, we pray thee, to thy presence, where we may be still and know that thou art God; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Imagine singing praises to God with all your heart with 1600 people from all over the world! It was definitely a magnificent taste of heaven. St. Philippians, as well as lots of dear friends from across our diocese, were able to be a part of the 2022 New Wineskins Anglican Global Mission Conference at Ridgecrest Conference Center in Black Mountain, NC. This conference is held every three years and this was the largest gathering to date for the event.

The theme this year was “111: Be the one, See the One, Share the One.” Be the one to reach out with the love of Christ––See the one who needs the truth of the gospel––Share the One true God. 

TONIGHT: Wednesdays Alive!

Worship and Supper Only

While the Rev. Brian McGreevy recovers from eye surgery, his Wednesday evening C.S. Lewis class, "The Great Divorce: C.S. Lewis on God's Truth or Your Truth," will be on a two-week break, resuming October 19 at 7:15. Click the link below to watch last week's class.

Why Are We So Excited?

The First “Children Sing”

Sunday with Director Zippy Hood

Is This Sunday, October 9!

All of the St. Philip’s children’s choirs, from our youngest Cherub trebles to our eldest St. David mixed-voice choristers, will sing during this Sunday’s 10:30 service. Please join us!

For Women:

The ECW Fall Dinner

Tuesday, October 18, at

6:00 p.m. in the Parish Hall

Bonus Session for All Adults:

“Passing on the Legacy of Faith

to the Next Generation”

(with Walt Shepard)

Wednesday, October 19, at

10:00 a.m. in the Parish Hall

Seniors of St. Philip’s, please join us for a special outing to Brookgreen Garden’s Nights of a Thousand Candles!

Schedule: The bus will depart from the church at 2:00 p.m. and will return at 11:00 p.m. Parking for your vehicles will be available in the church lot. 

Cost: $185 per person. This includes bus fare, dinner at Hanser House Restaurant in Pawleys Island, and the entrance fee for Brookgreen Gardens.

The Home Missions Team is looking for 5–10 people for a Water Mission service opportunity on Wednesday, October 26.

Volunteers will help set up for the 2023 Walk for Water Open House, which will be hosted on the following day. Tasks involve moving furniture and preparing office space to welcome guests for the open house.

Please contact Jill Settle if you can make it or have any questions: (843) 697-0818 or jillasettle@gmail.com.

The Rev. Jeffrey S. Miller will be preaching this Sunday at our services of Holy Communion at 8:15 and Morning Prayer at 10:30 a.m.

If you've been thinking that Marshall has just been resting on his laurels up in Maine since May, you thought wrong! No, our roving smile ambassador has been hard at work making sure he puts a smile on the face of everyone he meets up there, which is no small task––he meets a lot of people!

Nonetheless, he had time to write to Gus (you may remember that Gus was the one who encouraged him to apply for a job at St. Philip's) last week:

Dear Gus, 

    I had a busy summer with my Downeast Maine Smile Mission. We had to make a dash for the ferry ahead of the hurricane and found folks in need of smiles all the long way home. 

     I am glad to see that you are busy spreading the smiles in the Church office and working on some intriguing top secret plans with the Sexton-in-Training. Keep up the good work. Give my love to all the ESpire ladies, but DO NOT eat all the office treats before I get there in December.

     Your friend,

     Marshall

If  you already follow St. Philip's on Facebook and Instagram, then you already knew that Marshall had been in touch. But if this is the first you're hearing of it, don't you think you should take a moment right now to follow us so that you can be among the first to hear part-time office helper news, upcoming events, and weather-related schedule updates?

Important Dates

October 5 ~ Monthly Men's Lunch with Speaker Alan Runyan

October 6 ~ LAMB Dinner Party with a Purpose (St. Peter's in Mt. Pleasant)

October 9 ~ Acolyte Training (after 10:30 service)

October 15 ~ Men’s Summit with Bishop Edgar (St. Paul’s Summerville)

October 18 ~ ECW Fall Dinner with guest speaker Valerie Elliot Shepard

October 19 ~ "Passing on the Legacy of Faith to the Next Generation" with Valerie and Walt Shepard (10:00 a.m. in the Parish Hall)

October 21-23 ~ Anglican Women's Fall Retreat

October 26 ~ Water Mission Service Opportunity

October 28-30 ~ Parish Retreat at Kanuga

November 5 ~ Lowcountry Walk for Life

November 6 ~ Choral Evensong with the choirs of St. Philip’s and Christ Church, Mt. Pleasant (5:00 p.m.)

December 1 ~ Seniors Excursion: “Nights of a Thousand Lights” at Brookgreen Gardens

January 26–28, 2023 ~ Mere Anglicanism Conference

We pray for the sick: Jean Carlton, Lidia DiPaolo, George Rawling Evans, Sally Fayard, Elizabeth Flowers, Mary Forbes, Robert Gould, Susan Hemminger, Robert Johnson, Robert Kizer, Gene Martini, John Murray, Marijane and Kenneth Nichols, Bill Phillipps, Libby LeLand Puckette, Valerie Rouillard, Fran Sanders, Sydney Severance, Pete Sperr, Margaret Swanson, Judy Vandiford, Lindsey Wing, and Harrison Woods.

We grieve with and pray for Rachel Murphy and family on the death of her grandmother, Joyce Agnes DeCock, on October 2.

We pray for our expectant parents: Boykin and Thomas Anderson, Anna Gray and Ralph Baker, Felicia and Tim Evans, and Carter and Foxy Foxworth.

We pray for protection for Becca Baird, Chris and Julia Beasley, Graham Blunt, Henry Clayton, Ben Colyer, David Daughtridge, Eric Gaines, Morgan and Mason Herring, Andrew Kane, Quin Kane, Horry Kerrison, Frazier Kulze, John Mason, Zach McFadden, Philip Middleton III, Jackson Miller, Edward Pritchard, Nathaniel Rollings, David Scott, and John Self.

We pray for our home and world missions: Star Gospel Mission, Lowcountry Pregnancy Center, Suzy McCall and LAMB, for the medical missions to Honduras, for ministry to victims of genocide and AIDS in Rwanda, for the Persecuted Church, for Anglican Frontier Missions, for Uganda Christian University Partners, for Water Mission and the Global Water Center, and for St. Jean Baptiste, our sister church, and the schools in Haiti.

Collect for Sunday:

Lord, we pray thee that thy grace may always precede and follow us, and make us continually to be given to all good works; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

Readings for Sunday:

• 2 Timothy 2:1-7
• Psalm 113
• Luke 17:11-19