A Word from the New Missioner
I recently watched again the inspirational Ron Howard movie “Apollo 13” – the story of a crippled spacecraft with astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise and Jack Swigert finding a way to survive a malfunction and return to earth. Mission Control in Houston is working just as hard to bring them home. The mission changed from landing…
2018 Mission Grant Awards Total $116,900
The Diocesan Mission Grants Committee has awarded $116,900 in grants to mission congregations of our diocese, approving all eight grant requests it received for 2018. The committee met May 31 to review the applications and hear in-person presentations. The Diocesan Trustees had initially approved $100,000 for the grant cycle, and since then have approved the…
Learning to Assist Refugees
Nancy Amis of Grace Church Cathedral recently returned from attending a three-day training sponsored by The Episcopal Church to equip Episcopalians as advocates, allies, and ambassadors for refugees and the ministry of refugee resettlement. “Love God, Love Neighbor” was sponsored by Episcopal Migration Ministries. Nancy says she had a wonderful time meeting with fellow Episcopalians at the training in…
Chaplain Receives National Award
The Rev. Rob Dewey of the Lowcountry Community Chaplaincy has been presented with a national award from the Corporate Crisis Response Officers Association and its ReadyCommunities Partnership. Dr. Rosalie J. Wyatt of the CCROA and and Mount Pleasant Mayor Will Haynie presented the award at a recent Mount Pleasant Town Council meeting. Since 2006, CCROA and the ReadyCommunities Partnership…
St. Mark’s to Purchase Union Church in Port Royal
(St. Mark’s Episcopal Church press release) St. Mark’s Episcopal Church and the Town of Port Royal have signed an agreement for St. Mark’s to purchase historic Union Church from the town. The church is located at 1011 11th Avenue. St. Mark’s, the only Episcopal Church north of the Broad River in Beaufort County, has been meeting at…
The Presiding Bishop’s Address at the Royal Wedding
UPDATED MAY 22 with new links… scroll down Whether you woke up early Saturday to watch the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle live, or you didn’t tune in at all, chances are you’ve heard people talking about Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Michael Curry’s passionate wedding homily, heard by billions around the world on…
Bicycle Blessings in Charleston
The City of Charleston held its first Blessing of the Bikes on Saturday, May 12, and several Episcopal clergy spent the morning in Hampton Park offering blessings for bicycles and those who ride them. A brief service was led by the Rev. Laura Everett, the Executive Director of the Massachusetts Council of Churches and author…
Presiding Bishop to Preach at Royal Wedding Saturday
Updated on May 19, 2018:Watch the Presiding Bishop’s sermon hereWatch Presiding Bishop Curry and Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby speaking together before the wedding: Video People in our diocese are joining with Episcopalians across the Church in excited anticipation of hearing Presiding Bishop Michael Curry preach to a worldwide audience this Saturday at the royal wedding…
The Reverend Canon John Ball, 1923-2018
The Reverend Canon John Coming Ball, Jr., 95, died April 26 at the Bishop Gadsden retirement community. Born in Summerville on April 26, 1923, Canon Ball was ordained in 1958 by Bishop Thomas N.Carruthers, and served at Christ Church, Denmark; St. Alban’s, Blackville; and Holy Apostles, Barnwell. He also served in the Diocese of Atlanta from 1961-1976 and the Diocese of…
Southern Deanery Prison Ministry Coordinator Honored
Pamela Guess, a member of Christ Church Denmark and coordinator of the Changing Hearts and Minds Ministry of the Southern Deanery, was honored as Volunteer of the Year at the Estill Federal Correctional Institution on April 4, 2018. Estill FCI is a medium security federal correctional institution with an adjacent minimum security satellite campus, with…
Prayer Book Conference Encourages Deeper Connections
The Episcopal way of worship has a framework and structure that can help all kinds of people make a deeper connection to God, scholar and author Derek Olsen says. But in order to invite people to experience that, he says, we have to understand it ourselves – and our Book of Common Prayer gives us…
A Message of Thanks from the Rev. Bill Redfield
The Reverend Bill Redfield, our keynote presenter on November 11 at the 227th Diocesan Convention, sent this letter of thanks to the diocese. Dear People of the Episcopal Church in South Carolina, It was my great honor and pleasure to be with you at your diocesan convention. I give deep bows to all the delegates,…