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~ the eSPIRE Newsletter ~
April 28, 2024
The Fifth Sunday of Easter
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Daily: Lowcountry Lunch at the Tea Room!
11:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. in the Parish Hall and in the courtyard through this Friday, April 26
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Join your St. Philip's family for lunch any day this week or sign up to help out! Dining room help is especially appreciated!
PLUS: We need your Huguenot Torte!
Our Tea Room customers LOVE Huguenot Torte, so we would be ever so grateful for your help keeping it available! And the Tea Room can ALWAYS use all of your homemade desserts, so please bring in whatever you can. Check out the link below for Huguenot Torte and other recipes, or bring in your own specialty!
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Tonight: Wednesdays Alive! service only
Come-as-you-are service of Holy Eucharist at 5:30 p.m.
Supper and class in recess Tea Room week
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Tomorrow: Rector's Bible Study in Recess
Resumes next Thursday, May 2, at noon in the Parish Hall
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Monthly Men's Lunch
Wednesday, May 1 ~ Noon in the Parish Hall
All men of the community are invited to enjoy a delicious lunch and hear testimony from Hugh Weathers, South Carolina's Commissioner of Agriculture.
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Grandparents@Prayer Drop-In
Thursday, May 2 ~ 11:00 to 11:45 a.m. in the Chapel
This drop-in prayer session is conveniently timed for you to stop by before the Rector’s Bible Study to pray intentionally for your grandchildren. Resources are provided, and prayer team members are available to pray with you if you’d like. This is the final drop-in before summer recess.
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Discover Your Spiritual Gifts for Ministry!
Two-day workshop in Philadelphia Alley, May 3 & 4
Friday 7:00 to 9:00 p.m.; Saturday 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
God has given you (yes, you!) gifts for ministry. Come experience the joy of discovering these gifts and finding ways to use them in the service of Christ!
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Cinco Carnival
May 5 ~ 3:00–5:30 p.m.
Games ~ Prizes ~ Tasty Treats
Join your St. Philip's family for an old-fashioned, family-friendly carnival with a Mexican twist--it's Cinco de Mayo, after all! Come ready to win prizes, play games, have some food truck fare, and enjoy spending time with your church family while helping us raise awareness for the Shine the Light Campaign!
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Other Upcoming Events and Registrations | |
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Choral Evensong
Sunday, May 5, at 5:30 p.m.
The youth of our Canterbury and St. David Choirs will lead this contemplative service that will follow our Cinco Carnival.
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Diaper Drive
for the Lowcountry Pregnancy Center
Sunday, May 12
What’s needed:
• Diapers (sizes 4, 5 & 6 especially)
• Wipes
Drop-off options:
• Sunday, May 12, at church
• May 13-17 at the church office
• Saturday, May 18: bring with you to Lowcountry Pregnancy Center for Saturday Serve!
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May Saturday Serve: Lowcountry Pregnancy Center
Saturday, May 18, 9:00 –11:00 a.m. ~ LPC in North Charleston
Come help us serve our friends and mission partners at Lowcountry Pregnancy Center! The May “Saturday Serve” will begin with a tour of the Center, followed by various opportunities to serve, including very light spring cleaning, knitting or crocheting baby booties (please bring your own supplies), and unloading diapers collected from St. Philip’s diaper drive.
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ECW Springtime Celebration
for every church woman!
Tuesday, May 14 ~ 5:30 p.m. on the Parish House lawn
Join Every Church Woman for a springtime celebration on the Parish House lawn. Let us know you're coming, and invite all women of the community to join us for fellowship, delicious bites, and an opportunity to learn more about the ways the ECW is involved in our parish!
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Is Someone in your Family Graduating This Year?
Senior Recognition Sunday
May 19 during the 10:30 service
We will be recognizing our hardworking high school and college (or graduate school) seniors on Senior Recognition Sunday, May 19, and in that week’s inSPIRE and eSPIRE (mailed and emailed May 15). If someone in your family is graduating this spring or graduated in December, please submit his or her information at the link below!
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VBS Registration Now Open!
June 17–20 ~ current 3K-5th-graders and volunteers (youth and adult)
Join us for a Jungle Journey through the Bible at St. Philip's Vacation Bible School (VBS) 2024! Our Good News Cruise begins in Genesis and ends in Revelation as we discuss why our God deserves all the glory forever (1 Timothy 1:17). Volunteers are also needed!
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Clear Skies and Cool Temps Mark
Tea Room Opening Day
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While it was clearly summer in Charleston last week, Sunday’s rain brought along late-winteresque temperatures, and when Tea Room opened at 11:30 a.m. on Monday, the Peninsula was sitting at a brisk 59 degrees despite a bright, cloudless sky, and many people strolling around Church Street were bundled up in long pants and coats.
Meanwhile, many folks, including Elizabeth Crofoot and Mara Brockbank, pictured here with friends, chose instead to don spring dresses and hats to enjoy their first Lowcountry lunch and delicious dessert of Tea Room 2024.
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Prayer as Worship: Enter His Gates With Thanksgiving and His Courts With Praise!
by Dorothy Lancaster
Let’s face it: There are a lot of wonderful ways to spend a beautiful spring Saturday in Charleston. But I would contend there is no better way than at the Prayer as Worship offering led by Frenchie Richards and Pam Dickson this past Saturday at St. Philip’s.
About 30 St. Philippians of various ages, from their 20s to their 80s and everyone else in between, joined together with a desire to enrich their prayer lives––and they did just that. The theme centered around Psalm 100:4, which tells us to “Enter His gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise ...”
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April Saturday Serve: Lowcountry FCA
by Sandra Anderson, Home Missions Team
What fun everyone had this past Saturday at St. Philip’s April Saturday Serve! Twenty people volunteered in two groups and blessed the Lowcountry Fellowship of Christian Athletes.
One group gathered in the Tea Garden and made treat bags for the FCA leaders to thank them for their spiritual leadership in growing the faith of Charleston-area students while drawing even more to Christ. The Jackson family girls had fun decorating cookies to add to the treat bags. Others wrote thank-you notes to FCA donors.
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Our off-campus volunteers showed up in Goose Creek eager to tackle yard work for Lowcountry FCA Director Justin Neally and his family. They weeded, trimmed hedges, cut grass, raked, spread mulch, and even planted a tree. Two-year-old Paul Frederick Reese was enthusiastic to learn and help! “Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.” Proverbs 22:6.
If you would like to receive emails directly from the Home Missions Team about the upcoming opportunities to bless the Charleston area FCA ministry, please email Jill Settle to be added to our St Philip’s FCA Volunteer team list.
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Where in the World Is Juli Garland?
Well, at the time of writing on Monday, April 22, St. Philip’s Financial Administrator Juli Garland is in that part of Scotland known as Scottish Borders on vacation with a group of 31 other ladies from her online knitting group, who hail from all across the United States, including the Carolinas, Florida, Ohio, and Wisconsin.
On Sunday, the group boarded a double-decker bus for a Red Bus Bistro Tea And Fizz tour around Edinburgh. Juli and her friends enjoyed tea and Prosecco and all the usual teatime fare, such as finger sandwiches and scones. On Monday, they made their way to Dumfries, driving mostly on very narrow country roads. Along the way, they stopped in Hawick and another town called Galashiels, which is home to a wonderful tapestry museum that highlights the history of Scotland.
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Who You Gonna Call (in the Finance Department)?
If you’re accustomed to calling the church office with questions about your weekly offering or your quarterly giving statements and speaking with Juli Garland, please note that until she returns from vacation, your finance calls will be directed to Assistant Financial Administrator Denise Pickford (and will sometimes go to Denise even after Juli returns). Many of you already know that on April 1, Denise, who had served in the music department since 2017, officially joined the St. Philip’s finance department––how blessed we are to have her!
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Regular weekly events and services | |
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Midweek Morning Prayer
Wednesdays at 8:00 in the Chapel
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This Sunday's Service and Class Information | | |
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The Rev. Justin C. Hare is preaching at our services of Holy Eucharist at 8:15 a.m. and Morning Prayer at 10:30 a.m. Sunday school for children of all ages begins at 9:15 a.m., and the Rector's Forum (led this week by the Rev. Andrew O'Dell) begins at 9:30 a.m. | |
Unsolved Mysteries: STP Edition | |
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While many employees in the nation's workforce may claim to be "hardworking," not so many of them can back that up with irrefutable evidence--the way Marshall the Roving Smile Ambassador can.
On Monday, while many 9-to-5ers were already at home making dinner (or plating up some Tea Room leftovers), our Marshall was pounding the pavement of Church Street, searching for friends and strangers to delight with his giant paws, luxurious fur, and contagious smile.
The two people pictured here are clear indicators of just how effective Marshall is at his job, and while it's hard to gauge his effort level with just a couple of photographs, there's obviously no reason to question it––the results don't lie.
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If you follow St. Philip's on social media, you already knew what Marshall was up to at work on Monday. But if you hadn't heard, why not take a minute right now to give us a follow so that you, too, can be among the first to hear about schedule changes, special events, and the latest Smile Ambassador news? | |
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IMPORTANT DATES
April 22–26 ~ St. Philip’s Tea Room
May 1 ~ Monthly Men's Lunch (noon in the Parish Hall)
May 2 ~ Grandparents@Prayer monthly drop-in (11:00–11:45 in the chapel)
May 3–4 ~ Spiritual Gifts Workshop
May 4 ~ Anglican Women’s Gathering (Pawleys Island)
May 5 ~ Special Rector's Forum (9:30 a.m. in the Parish Hall)
May 5 ~ St. Philip’s Cinco Carnival (3:00 p.m.)
May 5 ~ Choral Evensong with the Canterbury and St. David Choirs (5:30 p.m.)
May 12 ~ Diaper Drive for Lowcountry Pregnancy Center
May 14 ~ ECW Springtime Celebration
May 15 ~ Final Wednesdays Alive! service/supper/class
May 16 ~ Pop-Up Chamber Concert (11:00 a.m.)
May 16 ~ Final Rector’s Bible Study
May 18 ~ "Saturday Serve" for Lowcountry Pregnancy Center
May 19 ~ Graduating Senior Recognition Sunday
June 17–20 ~ Vacation Bible School (VBS)
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We pray for the sick: Jimmy Bowes, Mara Brockbank, Diane Christensen, Karen Collins, Mary Forbes, Mike Goodwin, Myron Harrington, Tom Kerns, Marvin Kirkland, Rena Mack, Paula McNamara, Eric Panizza, Lou Parker, Barbara Sainsbury, Fran Sanders, Esther Spade, Pete Sperr, and Ginny Townsend.
We grieve with and pray for Bill Aldrich and family on the death of his brother, Robert Bryan Aldrich III, on April 20.
We pray for our expectant parents: Sarah and Wyatt Baldwin, Katy and Andrew Brown.
We pray for protection for those serving in the armed forces: Becca Baird, Janie Baird, Henry Clayton, David Daughtridge, Eric Gaines, Andrew Kane, Quin Kane, Horry Kerrison, Frazier Kulze, John Mason, Philip Middleton III, Jackson Miller, Edward Pritchard, Nathaniel Rollings, David Scott, and Asada Williams.
We pray for our home and world missions: Lowcountry Fellowship of Christian Athletes, Hope to Home, Lowcountry Pregnancy Center, Star Gospel Mission, 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.
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Collect for Sunday:
O God, whose Son Jesus is the Good Shepherd of thy people: Grant that when we hear his voice, we may know him who calleth us each by name, and follow where he doth lead; who, with thee and the Holy Ghost, liveth and reigneth, ever one God, world without end. Amen.
Readings for Sunday:
- Isaiah 52:13-53:12
- Acts 8:26-40
- Psalm 66:1-8
- John 14:15-21
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ST. PHILIP'S CHURCH
142 Church Street | Charleston, SC 29401
(843) 722-7734, www.stphilipschurchsc.org
Church Office Hours
8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday
8:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Friday
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