8:00 a.m. Holy Eucharist: Rite I

Note: No Wednesdays Alive! service/supper/class tonight

6:00 p.m. Holy Eucharist: Rite I

Note: No Rector’s Bible Study on Maundy Thursday.

12 noon Good Friday Liturgy

5:00 p.m. Fellowship supper

6:00 p.m. Stations of the Cross (on the lawn, in the church if raining)

Note: The church office will be closed on Good Friday

6:30 a.m. Holy Eucharist: Rite II (on the lawn, in the church if raining)

7:30 a.m. Fellowship breakfast (Parish Hall)

9:00 a.m. Festival Holy Eucharist: Rite I (in the church, nursery available)

11:15 a.m. Festival Holy Eucharist: Rite I (in the church)

Note: The church office will be closed Easter Monday and Tuesday

A couple dozen St. Philippians attended Lowcountry Pregnancy Center’s (LPC) Annual Fundraising Banquet this past Friday evening. A couple dozen St. Philippians attended Lowcountry Pregnancy Center’s Annual Fundraising Banquet this past Friday evening. After a delicious meal and wonderful fellowship at the St. Philip’s Home Missions sponsored tables, we sang along with the rest of the banquet attendees “Hymn of Heaven,” which prepared our hearts for the stories we were about to hear. First, we heard from a young single mother and a couple, all of whom are LPC clients. LPC has equipped these young parents with essential parenting armor: strengthened faith, encouragement, parenting classes, counseling for both mom and dad, and diapers. God is using LPC to offer hope and loving support, all in the name of Jesus, for those who visit their office with an unexpected pregnancy.  

Keynote speaker Evie West shared her testimony, which was the picture of redemption and divine intervention.

Holy Week and Easter Week Schedule Changes

• Wednesdays Alive! now in recess, resumes 4/19
• Rector’s Bible Study now in recess, resumes 4/20
• no inSPIRE/eSPIRE mailed/emailed 4/12

The church office will be closed April 7–11. In the event of a pastoral emergency, please contact the Rev. Bill Christian at (843) 327-0791.

Tea Room Week Schedule Changes

• No Rector’s Forum or Sunday School 4/23
• No fellowship supper after service 4/26
• No Rector’s Bible Study 4/27

The photograph above, taken by the Rev. Rob Sturdy, Chaplain of St. Alban’s Anglican Chapel Society, shows St. Philip’s Church volunteers setting up the supper prepared by Chef Connie Stahl to be served to around 70 cadets at The Citadel prior to the March 20 chapel service. Pictured at the front table are St. Philippians Danielle Folline, DuBose Blakeney, Carol Robinson, David Wright, and John Macmurphy. At the back table are Joanna Macmurphy, Lee Richards, Richard Padgett, and Briggs Huddleston. Volunteers not pictured are Sam Robinson, Lon Burris, and Reid Davis.

The picture above may best be described as “the calm before the storm,” after which numerous cadets would come through for a first serving, a second serving, and in some cases a third serving.

Grandparents, Join the Andertons in Their Sullivans Island Home for a Wine and Cheese Reception!

Sunday, April 23, 4:00–6:00 p.m.

Come enjoy wine and refreshments at the home of Amy and Joe Anderton on Sullivan’s Island while you learn about the 2023-2024 plans for Generations Ministry, including quarterly speakers, small-group options, fellowship events, resources, and outreach opportunities! Bring your requests for speaker topics as well as suggestions for how the Generations Ministry team can better equip grandparents to nurture the faith of their grandchildren. Parents, you are welcome to come learn about the ministry and bring your own parents even if they do not attend St. Philip's Church. All are welcome! Please let us know your plans at the link below.

Generations Ministry was developed at St. Philip's Church in 2018 to encourage, empower, and equip grandparents in their God-given role of passing faith in Jesus Christ to their children, grandchildren, and future generations. 

On behalf of Water Mission, thank you, Team St. Philip’s Church! This amazing group included 141 registered walkers and raised $10,550.88! Well done!

The Walk for Water raises awareness about the global water crisis, raises funds to end the global water crisis, and allows us to share the work that Water Mission is involved in around the world. 

Our prayer for those that participate in the Walk for Water is that the Lord will open eyes and touch hearts. We hope each person who “walks so others don’t have to” will want to see an end to the global water crisis. 

When you walked 1.5 miles with a bucket of dirty water, read the signs along the Walk with facts from around the world, and walked through Water Mission Headquarters, did you get excited about being part of the solution? We hope you did! There are many ways to get involved with the work being done. Let us show you what we’re doing! 

Please consider visiting Water Mission. Get Involved Tours are offered most Tuesdays 10:00 to 11:00 a.m. Email [email protected] to sign up. To learn more about opportunities, please visit watermission.org/get-involved/volunteer.

Many blessings and much joy to you!

George C. Greene III and Jeni Greene Gardner

Questions about registration or St. Philip's partnership with Lowcountry Fellowship of Christian Athletes? Contact Jill Settle. Ready to register? Fill out your information at the link below and list "St. Philip's/Jill Settle" as your table host.

Camp Jubilee Registration Open Now!

Sidewalk Standoff

Since Marshall the roving smile ambassador's work takes place almost entirely off campus, he hasn’t had many occasions to meet many of his coworkers, especially the part-time helpers whose schedules tend to be erratic. So when he encountered Charlie the cemetery guard cat on a walk recently, he found Charlie to be a little … prickly. However, Charlie has since been informed that not only is Marshall allowed on the sidewalk (as all dogs are, as a matter of fact, but there’s a bit of a learning curve for Charlie), but he’s also welcome to come visit his coworkers in the office whenever he’s around!

If you follow St. Philip's on social media, you already knew about the Marshall–Charlie standoff. But if this is the first you're hearing about it, why don't you take a moment right now to like and follow us on Facebook and Instagram so that you, too, can be among the first to hear about upcoming events, schedule changes, and the (hopefully improving) relationships among our furry helpers?

Important Dates

April 6 ~ Grandparents@Prayer Drop-In (11:00–11:45 in the Chapel)

April 7–11 ~ Church office closed

April 8 ~ Easter Egg Hunt (10:00 a.m.)

April 12 ~ Monthly Men’s Lunch (noon in the Parish Hall)

April 12 ~ Wednesdays Alive! in recess

April 13 ~ Rector’s Bible Study in recess

April 16 ~ Youth Confirmation Sunday

April 23 ~ Rector’s Forum, Sunday School in recess

April 23 ~ Generations Ministry Wine & Cheese for Grandparents (off-campus)

April 24-28 ~ Tea Room

April 26 ~ No supper or class following Wednedays Alive! service

April 27 ~ Rector’s Bible Study in recess

April 28–29~ Southeastern Intentional Grandparenting Conference

May 1~ Lowcountry Fellowship of Christian Athletes Annual Fundraising Banquet

May 4 ~ Grandparents@Prayer Drop-In (11:00–11:45 in the Chapel)

May 9 ~ Generations Ministry Dessert and Q&A with Jeff Miller

May 11 ~ ECW Spring Social (6:00 p.m.)

May 12 ~ Seniors’ Excursion to Millford Plantation

June 19-22 ~ Vacation Bible School (VBS)

June 26–30 ~ GrandCamp 2023

We pray for the sick: Johnny Anderson, Sallie Barrera, Tim Bass, Elizabeth Bowles, Tory Bowles, Diane Christensen, Karen Collins, Cullen Crowley, Sally Fayard, Mary Forbes, Dana Heikes III, Susan Hemminger, Susan Keenan, Marvin Kirkland, Robert Kizer, Thomas Legaré, Libby LeLand Puckette, Wes Lewis, Rena Mack, Elaine Pendarvis, Eli Penn, Bill Phillipps, Valerie Rouillard, Fran Sanders, Pete Sperr, Margaret Swanson, Jenny White, and Lindsey Wing.

We grieve with and pray for the family of Arthur Hunt Applegate, who died on April 2.   

We pray for our expectant parents: Kimbrell and Bruce Blackwood; Elizabeth and William Bryan; Torrey and Ryan Knapp; Ainsley and Dominic Monda; and Demontre and Minka Parish.

We pray for protection for Becca Baird, Graham Blunt, Robert Cale III, Henry Clayton, 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, and David Scott.

We pray for our home and world missions: Lowcountry Fellowship of Christian Athletes, Lowcountry Pregnancy Center, Star Gospel Mission, 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:

O God, who for our redemption gave your only begotten Son to the death of the cross, and by his glorious resurrection delivered us from the power of our enemy: Grant us so to die daily to sin, that we may evermore live with him in the joy of his resurrection; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

Readings for Sunday:

• 1 Corinthians 15:12–26
• Matthew 28:1–10