Just before opening time, the Rev. Jeff Miller addressed the volunteers, commissioning them to show hospitality to strangers as we are instructed to do in Hebrews 13:2: “Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.”

Everybody loves Huguenot Torte, and we're having a difficult time keeping it available for our Tea Room customers––could you help out by bringing some by today, tomorrow, or Friday? Other desserts are also welcome and needed!

Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord; and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who empowers them all in everyone. To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. ––1 Corinthians 12:4-7

God has given you (yes, you!) gifts for ministry, and there is no greater joy than discovering these gifts and finding ways to use them in the service of Christ. Join Brian McGreevy, Frenchie Richards, and Andrew O’Dell for a spiritual gifts workshop on May 13 and 14. Lunch will be provided on Saturday.

Questions? Contact Joy Avera.

The Open Door Ministry has been opening the sanctuary to visitors one day a week for the past few months, and they came together to provide volunteers daily during Tea Room week––Friday, May 6, will mark the first time the sanctuary has been open five days in a row since before the pandemic. The goal is to continue to open the sanctuary five days a week from now on.

We need volunteers to make this happen! You will welcome visitors warmly, offer prayer guides and other literature, and chat with them. We now have displays loaded with information about our history, and our experienced docents will also give you everything you need to be able to respond to questions.

Please call or text Elizabeth Bowles at (843) 364-0810 as soon as possible to get started. Our goal is to provide two people per shift.

Registration for the Very Best (week of the) Summer, aka VBS, is open now! This year’s theme is Make Waves: What You Do Today Can Change the World Around You, and current current 3K–5th-grade students are invited to have fun, make friends, and learn about how our love for Jesus can create a ripple effect that can impact the world around us. We need youth and adult helpers to register as well!

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.

We continue to pray these current circumstances and conditions will eventually end and civil stability will return to the mainland so that we may once again be able to join our brothers and sisters on La Gonâve with a joyful mission of presence, celebrating St. Jean Baptiste Feast Day week in June of 2023.

Below see the Easter greeting from the Rev. Jean Madoche Vil, our priest in charge of the ten churches, schools, and medial clinic on La Gonâve.

We will be recognizing our hardworking high school and college seniors on Senior Recognition Sunday on May 22 and in that week’s inSPIRE and eSPIRE. If someone in your family is graduating this spring, please submit the information at the link below!

On Monday, May 2, a construction and masonry team set the over 200-year-old cap on the cemetery’s north pillar. The caps were originally set on a laminated stone and mortar neck with a small carbon steel pin. Project superintendent Nathan Youngman of Magee Ratcliff Construction, LLC, with the help of masons Cody James and Roland Long of Up South, LLC, made a new brownstone neck for the cap and installed a 16” stainless steel rod set in a stone epoxy. The team will hand form a new tapered neck portion using a sandstone repair mortar.

About Theology on Tap: Theology on Tap is a gathering for young adults in Charleston who long for meaningful conversation about life and God. We’ll be meeting again next Tuesday, May 10, at 7:00 in the Whiskey Room at Henry’s on the Market for drinks (cash bar), apps (provided), and conversation.

We are dedicating this round to everything we couldn't quite get to in weeks past: "Double Jeopardy: Questions the Timer Cut Off." You're still welcome to ask any questions you'd like, which you can submit anonymously through a texting app. Free parking at the church parking lot is available on a first-come, first-served basis.

Connoisseurs Tours invites you to enjoy a specially curated tour of Civil War battle sites with the Rev. Jeffrey S. Miller as your guide! The battles of Antietam, Harpers Ferry, and the three-day Battle of Gettysburg marked a turning point not only in the course of the American Civil War, but also for the future of the United States of America. This journey will deepen your understanding of this monumental conflict that left no American untouched. In the evenings, unwind in comfort at carefully selected accommodations in the heart of this historic region.

Ready to book or learn more? Contact Connoisseurs Tours Guest Service Coordinator Chandler Scott at (800) 856-1045, ext. 4, or chandler@connoisseurstours.com.

The Rev. Brian K. McGreevy will be preaching this Sunday at our services of Holy Communion at 8:15 and Morning Prayer with the children's choirs at 10:30 a.m.

Yesterday, #1 St. Philip's volunteer Ann Hunley Harrington took on the role of official Tea Room photographer, snapping pictures of desserts, diners, flowers, and volunteers––and the St. Philip's clergy team, who were there to enjoy lunch together following their weekly meeting. Little did Ann know that one of her clergy pictures would make it onto their debut album, St. P's Priests and Praise Music!

Ok, Andrew, Bill, and Justin have not actually formed a band (that we know of), BUT, as Kelsey Lipscomb pointed out in a comment on Facebook, the photograph does look like it belongs on an album cover––and all three in the picture do have musical talents (one of them was playing a Johnny Cash song on his guitar and singing yesterday morning––just sayin'). So we'll try to make it happen ... stay tuned!

If you follow St. Philip's on Facebook and Instagram, you've seen this picture already. And if you don't ... why don't you take a minute to follow us now so that you, too, can be among the first to see fun pictures, hear about upcoming events and schedule changes, and learn about the sometimes unexpected things that happen on our campus?

Prayer appointments are available with trained prayer ministers for personal needs related to healing for physical, emotional, or spiritual needs. All meetings are confidential and can be arranged by contacting Juanita Orvin (juanitaorvin@gmail.com) or Frenchie Richards frichards7@aol.com.

Call Suzanne McCord, head of the prayer chain, and she will pass your request on to members of the chain:

suzanne1959@gmail.com or (843) 224-1630.

May 12 ~ Rector’s Bible Study resumes

May 13, 14 ~ Spiritual Gifts workshop

May 15 ~ Last Sunday School, Rector’s Forum

May 15 ~ Diaper Drive (Lowcountry Pregnancy Center)

May 15 ~ Choral Evensong (Canterbury Choir, 5:00 p.m.)

May 22 ~ Senior Recognition Sunday

May 25~ Last Wednesdays Alive! before summer recess

May 26~ Last Rector’s Bible Study before summer recess

June 5 ~ Choral Evensong (5:00 p.m.)

June 6-10 ~ Preschool Summer Camp session one

June 13-16 ~ Vacation Bible School (VBS)

July 18-22 ~ Preschool Summer Camp session two

We pray for the sick: Arthur Applegate, Baby Avera, Jean Carlton, Judith Carr, Banks Cummings, Maffett Dowd, Sally Fayard, Elizabeth Flowers, Mary Forbes, Debbie Foster, George Gulyas, Mary Anne Hanckel, Dara Heikes, Susan Hemminger, Robert Johnson, Robert Kizer, Claudia Kolster, John Legare, Connor Lowndes, Molly Margaret O’Quinn, Baby Zan Murphey, John Murray, Ulrika O’Neil, Bill Phillipps, Valerie Rouillard, Fran Sanders, Jay Schrimpf, Sydney Severance, Pete Sperr, Jenny White, Lindsey Wing, and Harrison Woods.

We grieve with and pray for Steve Graudin and family on the death of his father, John Graudin, on May 3.

We pray for our expectant parents: Anna Gray and Ralph Baker, Felicia and Tim Evans, Katie and Ruben Perez-Phillips, Lauren and Ashton Phillips.

We pray for protection for Becca Baird, Chris and Julia Beasley, Graham Blunt, Henry Clayton, Ben Colyer, David Daughtridge, Tripp Hathaway, 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 serving in our Armed Forces.

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.