Parish Care Commission

Sharing Thanksgiving with Others!
THANKSGIVING DAY DINNER
in the Kinloch Room on
Thursday, November 27th
after 10:30 am service.

In the St. Michael’s tradition, you and your family and friends are invited to enjoy turkey and all the trimmings immediately following our 10:30 am worship service on Thanksgiving Day!

If you know of anyone who will be alone or for any reason deprived of a “Feast” on this holiday, please invite them to indulge with us. We are very thankful that God has blessed us with an abundance of spiritual and physical food to partake of together!

Please call the Church office at 723-0603 and reserve a place at the table for sign up for you and your friends!

Please bring a covered dish and/or a dessert so that we can enjoy your favorite additions to our holiday fare! ~ Rick & Sharon Wood

Come join the Dougherty family to watch the Christmas Parade from their balcony right on 111 Broad Street. Anyone is welcome to attend. December 7th at 1:30 pm 843-722-5910

Prayer Corner
Please pray for the following prayer requests: for the mission of St. Michael’s in the transformation of hearts through Jesus Christ; for the renewal and healing of the Episcopal Church; for the Anglican Communion Network of Dioceses and Parishes; for the Rt. Rev. Mark Lawrence and his family; for the search process for a new Organist/Choirmaster; for the January Day of Healing Prayer; for Douglas Born and his mission in Charleston; for Brother Dallas and St. John’s Chapel; for Tabitha Wang and her mission in China; for Simon Guillebaud and the Church in Burundi and the February mission to support his ministry; for Pastor Peter and the Church in Ukraine; and for Rob Kunes and Tyler Prescott, our seminarians.

Prayers for Deployed Military
PVT Adam Chapman, USA - Germany
STSGT Jonathan G. Morrison, USAF South Korea

Parents-to-Be Prayer List
God said, “Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you.”
Diana & George Thornley (Adoption, Fall 2008)
Tyler & Lanier Prescott (Adoption)
Ann & Wesley Cook (November 2008)
Amy & Richard Prause (November 2008)
David & Kellie McLain (December 2008)
Allison & Tucker Payne (December 2008)
Weatherly & Miller Brice (January 2009)
Nina & Craig Himes (January 2009)
Peggy & James McKinney (March 2009)
Kimberly & Tillman Smith (March 2009)
Avery & Ben Smith (April 2009)
Becca & Rob Weil (April 2009)
Rachel & Adam Temple (May 2009)
Heather & Jason Bryan (May 2009)

Thursday Healing Service and Prayers at St. Michael’s
10:00 am Service of Holy Communion and Healing in the Church.

Study Groups meet at different times throughout the week. Call Heidi Alexander at 724-7567 to get connected. A small sampling of those groups follows:

Adult Bible Studies
Thursdays 7:00–8:30 pm Room 201,
The Belser Building (14 St. Michael’s Alley).
The Holy Spirit in Action Marcia Snyder (559-3449)
or Peg Eastman (723-0004).

Men’s Bible Studies
Mondays 12:30 pm Men meet for prayer and study over lunch in the Chapel of the Belser Building
(14 St. Michael’s Alley).

Wednesdays at 6:30 pm This is a Bible Study for all men, married or single. They are studying Holy Conversation. It meets at Jerry Simmon’s home. Call Jerry at 795-2841 to join.

Wednesdays 7:15 am Men meet for prayer and Bible Study at 151 Meeting Street. (Wade Logan’s Office)

Women’s Bible Studies
Tuesdays at 12:15 pm
Women’s Bible Study in Room 209 of Belser Building. Come have lunch and discuss Attitudes of a Transformed Heart, by Martha Peace. Books are available at Saints Alive Bookstore. Childcare provided. Any questions, call Jeannie Lyles 849-6294.
9:30 am on Wednesdays at the Rectory
We are studying the books of Ruth and Esther. Study guides are available in the Saints Alive Bookstore. A nursery is provided. Call or email Jenny Dickinson with questions: 722-2721 or pjdickinson@yahoo.com.

Wednesdays at 11:00am
Women’s Bible Study covering Living beyond Yourself; Experiencing the Spirit-filled Life, by well known author Beth Moore is an 11-week study that includes a video, small group discussion, and workbook. Through this study you will come to appreciate the supernatural aspects of the fruit and that you cannot grow, learn, or produce it on your own. You are challenged to develop the fruit by maintaining an intimate relationship with the Holy Spirit. As you walk with God, He develops in you the fruit of the Spirit. A Spirit-filled life truly results in living beyond yourself.
To sign up, call Patti Sosnowski at 559-1285 or e-mail jsos11@yahoo.com. Workbooks are available for purchase at Saints Alive Bookstore.

Mondays 8:15 am Women gather for Bible Study in the Ann Hester Willis Room of the Laura Hewitt Building
(71 Broad Street). Call Trish McGuinn at 402-0630.

Addresses and Cookies Needed
The Sunday following Thanksgiving, St. Michael’s will box up and send our annual “study aid/cookie box” to students who belong to our parish, but are away at school. The biggest problem with this effort has been getting the correct addresses of your children. Past responses to this plea have been slow in coming and this year our Messenger comes out every other week. Please call Gretchen at the church office and give us a complete address as quickly as possible in order for them to receive this gift from St. Michael’s.
David and Marty Richardson are heading up this effort this year. To donate cookies, call them at
795-9095 and/or the church office at 723-0603.
Cookies are welcomed from everyone, especially those
who remember what a treat it was to receive a box.
~ Eunice Logan