~ the eSPIRE Newsletter ~
November 7, 2021
All Saints' Sunday
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TODAY: Men’s Lunch with Speaker Jimmy Hagood
Today, November 3 ~ 12 noon in the Parish Hall
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Join Team St. Philip’s at the Walk for Life!
This Saturday, November 6 ~ 12 noon
Wannamaker Park in North Charleston
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Team St. Philip's, we are moving on up! We are now in 6th place out of 45 teams, up from 9th place last week. There's still time to make it into the top 5! Each $200 raised helps provide a life-affirming ultrasound and a parenting class––can you help by either donating or joining as a walker and encouraging family, friends, and coworkers to sponsor you? Team St. Philip's will be walking together beginning at 12:00. Contact team captain Jill Settle if you have questions!
About the walk:
We are walking for life and to raise funds for Lowcountry Pregnancy Center and DAZZ, which have served over 148,000 client visits since 1986 through free pregnancy testing, counseling, life-affirming ultrasounds, and tangible “Because We Care” baby items––all given in LOVE and FREE through community support.
Any walker who raises $200 will receive a Walk for Life T-SHIRT and two Disney Vacation Raffle entries! And every $100 raised gets an entry in the $2000 Disney Vacation Raffle! Click the link below to register with Team St. Philip’s or donate!
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Generations Ministry of St. Philip’s Church Presents
GODLY GRANDPARENTING MATTERS
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A message from Jane McGreevy and Lynn Land, Generations Ministry Co-Chairs: Grandparenting looks different for many of us, especially during this pandemic year. Some grandparents have babies, while others have teens and even grown children. Some are long-distance, some are right around the corner. We love this idea Scharlene Ringer implemented with her granddaughter this year, and we asked her to share it with our congregation. Read on to learn about how the Lord led her to a creative way to spend time together while doing things she and her granddaughter love.
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Activity, submitted by Scharlene Ringer: The beginning was a seed of an idea that was planted in my heart during the Rev. Brian McGreevy’s class on C. S. Lewis. He related how J.R.R. Tolkien and Lewis read, edited, and critiqued each other’s writings. When COVID hit in March 2020, the idea bore fruit in my life. My then twelve-year old granddaughter Grace, who lived in Los Angeles at that time, suddenly found herself attending school on Zoom and confined to the inside of her home, not only because of the virus but also because of California fires, which made it impossible to breathe healthily outside. Our regular family vacation on Fripp Island, which had happened every year for fifteen years, had to be cancelled, and I was despairing with the realization that I would not see my four grandchildren at all that summer. I determined to Zoom with them once a week to keep in touch.
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During one such Zoom session with Grace, I told her how J.R.R. and “Jack” (Lewis’s nickname) had worked together on each other’s literary drafts; Grace, a budding author herself, was captivated by the idea. At that time she had begun writing a book entitled The Guardians of Everleaf. She and I agreed that we would each write a chapter of our own book once a week and come together on Zoom to refine the chapters with each other’s help. So the adventure began, which ended up being one of the major joys of my life, and got me through COVID containment with astounding pleasure and fulfillment.
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Book recommendation, submitted by Caroline Rhodes, If Jesus Came to My House: This treasured classic is a story of a young boy imagining what he would do if Jesus came to his house. He imagines Jesus as a boy his age, and how he would welcome him, offer his best toys, make him tea (the author was British), and give him the best chair as well as gifts from his garden. It is a sweet transition when the boy keenly acknowledges that Jesus will not physically come to his house, but that he can welcome Jesus in his heart by “doing all I would for Him for other folks instead.” I read this to my children and now read it to my little granddaughter Rhodes. She is too young to understand it just yet, but it is always a delightful reminder to me that at any moment we could be entertaining angels, or have an opportunity to show God’s love to others in the simplest of ways: opening our hearts and perhaps our homes to those he brings to us, both young and old. There is an original two-color edition, and now a full-color and new-illustrations edition that delights!
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All Saints' Fellowship Brunch This Sunday!
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St. Philippians Learn the Importance
of Quick Action in an Emergency
Next class: November 11 at 1:30 p.m., Room 109 of the Parish House
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On Thursday, October 28, several parishioners and a few staff members learned how to perform CPR and use an automatic electric defibrillator (AED) device in case of an emergency.
“I learned how important it is to move quickly in a crisis,” said Rachel Murphy, Executive Assistant to the Rector, “and this 90-minute session made me feel confident and competent to respond without hesitation.”
Doug Ringer will continue offering classes in an effort to get as many parishioners trained as possible. Classes will continue to be scheduled for Thursdays at 1:30 p.m. for now (a particularly convenient time for those attending the Rector’s Bible Study!) but we will be working on evening or weekend options shortly. Click the link below to register for the next class, and email Doug Ringer at ringdoug@gmail.com or phone him at (423) 827-6596 if you have questions or wish to participate in another class in the future.
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No C.S. Lewis Class Tonight
All participants are encouraged to attend the screening of
C.S. Lewis: The Most Reluctant Convert
November 3 at 7:00 p.m. at the Regal Palmetto Grande in Mt. Pleasant
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About the film: An elder C.S. Lewis looks back on his remarkable journey from hard-boiled atheist to the most renowned Christian writer of the past century.
The Most Reluctant Convert features award-winning actor Max McLean as the older Lewis and Nicholas Ralph––breakout star of PBS Masterpiece’s All Creatures Great and Small––as young Lewis. Beautifully filmed in and around Oxford, this engaging biopic follows the creator of The Chronicles of Narnia from the tragic death of his mother when he was just nine years old, through his strained relationship with his father, to the nightmare of the trenches of World War I to Oxford University, where friends like J.R.R. Tolkien challenge his unbelief.
Written for the screen and directed by two-time Emmy and BAFTA winner Norman Stone (BBC’s Shadowlands), The Most Reluctant Convert brings to life the spiritual evolution of one the 20th century’s sharpest minds and keenest wits.
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Fall Clean-Up at Camp St. Christopher
Saturday, November 20, 9:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m.
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St. Philip’s will be joining forces with Cursillo of The Anglican Diocese of South Carolina in order to maximize efforts for this clean-up day. We need as many helping hands as possible––no experience necessary! Lunch is provided. Feel free to work until 3:00 or as long as you’re able.
Please sign up at the link below by Wednesday, November 17, so we know how many folks to plan for. Also, please bring gardening gloves, clippers, and/or whatever equipment you are comfortable handling (lawn mower, weed eater, etc.). We can’t wait to see you there!
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Sunday, November 7, Is the International Day of Prayer for Persecuted Christians
by Susan C. Keller, World Missions Committee
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Today, over 340 million Christians experience extreme persecution and discrimination for following Jesus––that’s one in eight Christians worldwide.
From Open Doors, a ministry to persecuted Christians worldwide and a St. Philip’s world missions ministry partner that is dedicated to the idea that every Christian belongs to one Church and one Family: “In places like India, extremist mobs often attack Christians. In North Korea, owning a Bible can get your entire family sent to a labor camp. In China, the government tracks Christians and shuts down unauthorized churches. And in places like Iran, it’s illegal to even convert to Christianity. However, even during extreme persecution, the global Church is alive, full of joy and growth. Join us in prayer for your persecuted brothers and sisters as One Church, One Family.”
Particular prayers requested by Open Doors on November 7:
- Pray for the small community of Christians who remain in Afghanistan.
- Pray for Christians in Egypt, Syria, and Iraq to have courage and wisdom in the face of ongoing discrimination.
- Pray for Christians in North Korea, Somalia, Eritrea, and Iran––for comfort, release, and freedom.
- Pray for young Christian girls who face the threat of abduction and forced conversion and marriage in Muslim-majority countries like Egypt.
- Pray for persecuted Christians who have been displaced from their homes by extremist attacks in countries like Nigeria, Egypt, Syria and Burkina Faso.
- Pray for the pastors and Christian leaders of the persecuted Church.
View this 3+minute video that Open Doors has produced inviting us to join other Christians around the world to pray:
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Registration Open Now for 2022 Christian Men's Conference
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TONIGHT: Wednesdays Alive!
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Tonight's Supper: Creamy Chicken Pasta
Next Week's Supper: Creamy Curry Chicken over Rice
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Receive Email Updates, Remote Viewing Options
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If you would like to receive updates such as schedule changes and weather-related cancellations and you are not already on the Rector's Bible Study email list, please join by filling out the form at the link below.
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Come to Youth Group This Weekend!
Middle School: 6:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m. on Fridays in the Youth Room
High School: 6:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m. on Sundays in the Youth Room
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Youth group is open to all 6th–12th-graders of St. Philip’s and the surrounding community. Plan to play hard and pray hard. Questions? Contact youth minister David Gilbert at dgilbert@stphilipschurchsc.org or (843) 708-3795.
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This Week's Service Information
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The Rev. Jeffrey S. Miller will be preaching this Sunday at our services of Holy Communion at 8:15 and 10:30 a.m.
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Spooky Visitors Descend on the Church Office
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Last Wednesday, dozens of small, spooky visitors were roaming the halls of St. Philip’s office building in search of candy.
Turns out they had come to the right place! Staff members braved the visits from ghosts, dragons, and lobsters (and less scary visitors, such as horses and princesses), offering candy and smiles as the visitors swarmed about. And the inSPIRE ladies, who were gathered in the parlor for their weekly stuffing/labeling/fellowship hour, had plenty of treats to offer, too!
If you follow St. Philip’s on social media, you already knew about our visit from the St. Philip’s Preschool. But if this is news to you, why don’t you take a minute to visit us on Facebook and Instagram and click the like or follow buttons so that you, too, can be among the first to hear stories like this?
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Would You Like Someone to Pray With You?
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To pray WITH someone:
Call Juanita Orvin or Frenchie Richards, who will connect you with a prayer minister who will pray for your concerns over the phone.
To ask for prayer FOR someone:
Call Suzanne McCord, head of the prayer chain, and she will pass your request on to members of the chain.
Both options are always confidential.
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Save the Date
Nov. 7 ~ Fellowship Brunch (12 noon in the Parish Hall)
Nov. 9 ~ Theology on Tap (7:00 p.m., Henry’s on the Market)
Nov. 14 ~ Choral Evensong (5:00 p.m. in the church)
Nov. 20 ~ Fall Cleanup at Camp St. Christopher
Nov. 24 ~ No printed inSPIRE (Thanksgiving week)
Nov. 24 ~ Church office closes at 1:00 p.m.
Nov. 24 ~ No Wednesdays Alive! service, class, or supper
Nov. 25 ~ Thanksgiving Day Service (9:00 a.m. ~ note corrected time)
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Membership Directory
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We pray for the sick: Charles Cornwell, Sally Fayard, Mark and Cindy Fields, Elizabeth Flowers, Mary Forbes, Dave Gund, Mary Anne Hanckel, Susan Hemminger, John Jerger, Claudia Kolster, Joe Livesay, Connor Lowndes, Lucille MacLennan, Beverly Melvin, John Murray, Juanita Orvin, Olivia Palmer, Isla Pearce, Mave Riggs, Valerie Rouillard, Fran Sanders, Jay Schrimpf, Larry Scoville, Lynne Scoville, Jason Stryker, Hope Walters, and Lindsey Wing.
We grieve with and pray for: The family of Gerry Dickinson, who died on October 29.
We pray for our expectant parents: Kimbrell and Bruce Blackwood, Justin and Molly Hare.
We pray for protection for Becca Baird, Chris and Julia Beasley, Graham Blunt, Henry Clayton, Ben Colyer, David Daughtridge, Hayes Fair, Tripp Hathaway, Morgan and Mason Herring, Andrew 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 missions: Star Gospel Mission, Neighbors Together, Lowcountry Pregnancy Center, and St. John's Chapel.
We pray for our world missions: For Suzy McCall and LAMB, for the medical missions to Honduras, for ministry to victims of genocide and AIDS in Rwanda, for Water Mission and the Global Water Center, for The Persecuted Church, and for St. Jean Baptiste, our sister church, and the schools in Haiti.
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Collect for Sunday:
O Almighty God, who hast knit together thine elect in one communion and fellowship in the mystical body of thy Son Christ our Lord: Grant us grace so to follow thy blessed saints in all virtuous and godly living, that we may come to those ineffable joys which thou hast prepared for those who unfeignedly love thee; through the same Jesus Christ our Lord, who with thee and the Holy Spirit liveth and reigneth, one God, in glory everlasting. Amen.
Readings for Sunday:
- Revelation 7:9-17
- Psalm 149
- Matthew 5:1-12
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ST. PHILIP'S CHURCH
142 Church Street | Charleston, SC 29401
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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