Category : * South Carolina
The Rev. Gary Beson’s Farewell letter to the parish of St. Timothy’s, Cane Bay, in the Diocese of South Carolina
Dear Family and Friends of St. Timothy’s Church,
At last Saturday night’s worship Sue and I announced that we had been called to Prince George Winyah Church in Georgetown, SC . Like the last time I wrote to you all, it was a night I will never forget. I can’t express how emotional I felt to tell you we were called out of your livesand I could feel the shock, pain and grief as soon as the words left my lips.
I have been in the congregation when my friend and beloved priest told our church that he and his wife were stepping down. I wanted to stand up and cry “no, don’t leave us, it was just starting to get beautiful, wonderful and life-giving.” He assured us then, like I tried last
Saturday, that “our times are in God’s hands” Psalm 31:15
Those words of scripture gave me some comfort then as I pray God’s words can give younow. I know His plans and His ways are rarely what I would have chosen, but I also know each time I have said, “yes Lord, I will go” he has taken me from one beautiful place to the next. He really is a lamp unto our feet and a sure and certain hope in times of trouble. He promises to never leave us or forsake us, for times such as these. Sue and I will be with you until 2/26/20….
See St. Paul’s church planter, Gary Beson – St. Timothy’s Cane Bay, in this Journal Scene article https://t.co/X1RW0kDq8D pic.twitter.com/oFlKQc0tWO
— StPaulsAnglican (@StPaulsAnglican) April 24, 2019
The Latest Edition of the Diocese of South Carolina Enewsletter
Not a Convention Delegate? Come anyway – for the Workshops! Join us on Friday March 13:
Morning Mini Conference on:
Creating a Spiritual Legacy: Your Game Plan from Success to Significance
Afternoon Workshops on:
Church Revitalization • Stewardship • Global Partnerships • Church Planting • The New ACNA Prayerbook • Small Church, Big Heart, Big God • Hispanic Ministry • Prayer
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— Kendall Harmon (@KendallHarmon6) February 10, 2020
Kendall Harmon’s Sunday Sermon–The Presentation and its Call upon us to see as God sees (Luke 2:22-40)
You can listen directly there and download the mp3 there.
Presentation of the Lord
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Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence pic.twitter.com/QlKtLC4bqW— Amigo de Frodo (@bpdflores) February 2, 2019
The Latest Edition of the Parish Newsletter from Christ St Paul’s, Yonges Island, South Carolina
February is celebrated as the month of LOVE. What if we looked deeper than the culture’s view, and set our eyes on a Godly definition of love, one of covenant, self-sacrifice, and lasting commitment? You can be a part of our Celebration of Marriage, a special 20/20 focus on the bonds that keep couples together – through thick and thin, through ups and downs, through joy and sorrow.
Read on for 3 new vehicles to care for, celebrate, and strengthen marriage. There’s something for everyone. Take part in one or take advantage of all three, it’s up to you….
The Latest Edition of the Parish Newsletter from Christ St Paul’s, Yonges Island, #SouthCarolina https://t.co/pVIGb4UaM3 #anglican #parishministry pic.twitter.com/yIhqJQN5EG
— Kendall Harmon (@KendallHarmon6) February 2, 2020
The Rev. Gary Beson to become the next rector of Prince George Winyah Church in the Anglican Diocese of South Carolina
Gary and Sue were both born in Ohio and later both of their families, after several moves, ended up in Summerville, SC. They met their junior year at Summerville High School, dated while Gary was at the Citadel and after graduation, and they were married in 1984 at St. Phillips Church. They moved that fall from Charleston to Columbia so Sue could attend the University of South Carolina and major in Civil Engineering. In 1987 they moved back to Summerville so Gary could open his first Home Health business. Children followed: Gardner in ‘89, Parks in ‘92 and Mary Grace in ‘95.
They lived and served the Lord at St. Paul’s Summerville (where Gary was confirmed as a teenager, by the Rt. Rev. Fitz Allison in 1974) for over 25 years before being called into full-time ordained life. They attended Trinity School for Ministry and while there the family became involved in church planting at Southside Anglican Church.
The Rev. Gary Beson to become the next rector of Prince George Winyah Church in the #Anglican Diocese of #SouthCarolina https://t.co/pQgNZfO32g #parishministry #christianity pic.twitter.com/FnuW5hUXA2
— Kendall Harmon (@KendallHarmon6) February 1, 2020
(Local Paper) Facing dire climate threats, Charleston, South Carolina has done little to reduce its carbon footprint
Pounded by rain bombs from above and rising seas below, Charleston is among the most vulnerable cities in the South to a rapidly warming planet.
City officials estimate it may take $2 billion or more in public money to fortify Charleston against these threats — costs rooted in the rise of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.
Yet, amid these looming perils and costs, the city government itself has taken relatively modest steps to reduce its own carbon footprint in recent years, a Post and Courier investigation found.
Pounded by rain bombs from above and rising seas below, Charleston is among the most vulnerable cities in the South to a rapidly warming planet.https://t.co/5uxTHUmvTQ
— The Post and Courier (@postandcourier) January 26, 2020
(Saint Philip’s, Charleston) Denise C. Pickford–Recipe for a Christian Life: Reflections on Canon J.John’s Sermon
I love to cook. Browsing through recipes and then preparing them for my family and friends is one of my favorite things to do. To me, I am showing my love for them by taking the time to follow each step and make the preparations for a wonderful meal as my gift to them––and, of course, when my children were younger, to ensure their proper physical growth and health.
Is preparing nourishment in the form of food for our bodies any different from being nourished spiritually? We are not just a physical body; we have a spiritual body that must be fed as well. Without food and water, we would die. Without feeding our spiritual bodies or souls, we would become empty and begin searching for, in many instances, the wrong things to feed our hunger, which could never be satisfied with just earthly things. God wants to nourish our souls so that we may have the proper spiritual growth and health.
As I sat listening to Canon J.John on Sunday, his sermon struck me as the perfect “recipe” for how to live a Christian life!
The Latest Edition of the Parish Newsletter from Christ St Paul’s, Yonges Island, South Carolina
What is your response when you read this excerpt from John Eldridge’s book All Things New: Heaven, Earth and the Restoration of Everything You Love?
“One day soon you will step into a renewed earth, a young earth, sparkling like an orchard of cherry trees after a rain shower. Joy will be yours. How do we open our hearts to this after so much pain and disappointment? We have lost many things as we’ve passed through the battlefields of this war-torn world; our humanity has been stripped of such essential goodness.” (All Things New, Eldridge, p. 115)
Do you scoff with cynicism or cry out in wonder?
Read it again, stopping to consider your own thoughts of our future hope – The New Heaven and New Earth. We invited you to take advantage of one of the ways to further engage with this topic, to study, take in, and talk about something we don’t often talk about… what does eternity look like?
Or, pick up a copy of the book and “grab hold with both hands!”
The Latest Edition of the Parish Newsletter from Christ St Paul’s, Yonges Island, #South Carolina https://t.co/cilF6WLBz3 #anglican #parishministry #eschatology pic.twitter.com/fX9RvsZbSl
— Kendall Harmon (@KendallHarmon6) January 24, 2020
The Rev. Canon J. John Ali Lecture at Saint Philip’s, Charleston, SC, Yesterday
There are links for you to listen to it directly or to download it. You can read more about the event there.
New post (Canon J. John: Conversations About Faith) has been published on Age In Grace – https://t.co/2UtKPhvdYF pic.twitter.com/378YuEYWFS
— Age In Grace (@ageingrace22) November 19, 2019
Thinking Strategically About Book Choices; An Interview with Bishop Mark Lawrence
Bishop, I sense you’re a voracious reader. Would you use that term to describe yourself?
I would say as a parish priest I was, but as a Bishop less so, because the schedule and demands – which are voracious – have truncated that.
How many books do you read a month?
Far less than I wish, unfortunately. About two a month.
What are you reading right now?
This summer I’m rereading Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth. I’m also listening to two lecture series on the tragedies of Shakespeare and looking for opportunities to attend performances of those plays. Remarkably, we’ll be at the Utah Shakespeare Festival in August, and they’re performing Hamlet and Macbeth. There’s also a haunting performance of Lear by Anthony Hopkins in a movie version.
I’m also reading Landscape and Inscape: Vision and Inspiration in Hopkins’s Poetry by Peter Milward and The Man Who Went into the West: The Life of R.S. Thomas by Byron Rogers. (Thomas was a Welsh Poet and Anglican Priest). So I’ll reread his poems along with this recent biography.
How do you go about deciding what to read?
Often I will choose a reading project. When I was in parish ministry, I did this all the time. I’d read books in three areas: preaching and teaching, leadership, and pastoral ministry.
For preaching and teaching I would read 8 to12 books per year in theology, commentaries on the scriptures, homiletics or preaching. For leadership I’d read books from the secular world whether it be a book by Stephen Covey, Warren Bennis, Peter Drucker, James Burns, John Maxwell, etc., as well as in the Christian world and certainly biographies of leaders in various walks of life. The other arena was books on pastoral care, what’s known as pastoralia. That was for many years what I did in terms of my calling or vocational reading.
Bishop Mark Lawrence speaking at @AFM_US conference on 2 Timothy chapter 4 and finishing the race well. “What are those things that keep you from a vibrant relationship with God?” Quoting @JohnOrtberg, “ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.” #Anglican pic.twitter.com/eIpxB0sQGb
— Jeff Walton (@jeffreyhwalton) September 25, 2019
A Great Theological Resource–Audio of Some Lectures from past gatherings at the Anglican Leadership Institute
If you do not know about this, you should–check it out.
(Local Paper) Senator posts racist email from a constituent to show bigotry is ‘alive and well’ in South Carolina
A routine campaign email turned into a teaching moment on race for a South Carolina senator.
Columbia Democrat Mia McLeod posted on social media a screenshot of a constituent’s email that referred to her by using a racial epithet and expletive. The constituent was responding to her “save the date” invitation to a Jan. 28 fundraiser.
“I was a bit taken aback, but not totally shocked,” McLeod, who is black, told The Post and Courier on Wednesday….
A routine campaign email turned into a teaching moment on race for a South Carolina senator.https://t.co/GAVz71amz8
— The Post and Courier (@postandcourier) January 15, 2020
David Booman–Sabbatical “Greatest Gift Ever Received”
The past 12 weeks of sabbatical have been one of the greatest gifts I have ever received. I am profoundly grateful to the clergy, vestry, and the people of St. Michael’s for blessing me so generously and joyfully. The sabbatical went beyond what I had even hoped and was a summer I will always cherish.
In the months leading up to the sabbatical, my prayer for this time set apart was taken from Psalm 36: that the Booman family would be able to feast on the Lord’s abundance, drink from His delights, and see the light of His glory—all while sheltered under the shadow of His wings. Little did I know how critical the last clause of that prayer would prove to be…
Read it all (page 3).
David Booman–#Sabbatical “Greatest Gift Ever Received” https://t.co/KpIgreug5e #parishministry #anglican #southcarolina #marriage #Family #children #lowcountrylife pic.twitter.com/jRBZmgxBQF
— Kendall Harmon (@KendallHarmon6) January 14, 2020
Kendall Harmon’s Sunday Sermon for the Baptism of Jesus–What does it mean to seek and Pray for the Justice of God (Isaiah 42:1-4)?
You can listen directly there and download the mp3 there.
#ArtLovers
Baptism of Christ, Andrea Mantegna, ca. 1505 pic.twitter.com/1ESNHkhmDF— Jukka Isorinne (@jukkaisorinne) September 14, 2015
The Latest Edition of the Diocese of South Carolina Enewsletter
Natural Evangelism with Canon J. John
January 21, St. Philip’s Church, Charleston
The Anglican Leadership Institute once again invites you to a gathering to hear a gifted global leader speaking on an issue central to our Christian faith and witness. On Tuesday, January 21st. at St. Philip’s Church, 142 Church Street, Charleston, Canon J. John of England will speak on Natural Evangelism: The practice of praying, caring and sharing. Canon John, originally from Greece, has for years been a noted author, speaker, and media personality in the U.K. This is one of his first American visits. His book Ten on the Ten Commandments has been used by many study groups here in Charleston and elsewhere. It is a unique contemporary approach to a classical subject.
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— Kendall Harmon (@KendallHarmon6) January 11, 2020
A Johns Island South Carolina sunset to brighten your evening (Greg Snyder)
(Uexpress) Bright Bonfires Mark Real End of Christmas Season
The same thing happens to Father Kendall Harmon every year during the 12 days after the Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ.
It happens with newcomers at his home parish, Christ-St. Paul’s in Yonges Island, South Carolina, near Charleston. It often happens when, as Canon Theologian, he visits other parishes in the Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina.
“I greet people and say ‘Merry Christmas!’ all the way through the 12 days” of the season, he said, laughing. “They look at me like I’m a Martian or I’m someone who is lost. … So many people just don’t know there’s more Christmas after Christmas Day.”
12th night Christ St Pauls Yonges Island SC #epiphany #epiphany2019 #southcarolina #parishministry #anglican pic.twitter.com/Hesnx2jYGL
— Kendall Harmon (@KendallHarmon6) January 6, 2020
A Kendall Harmon Sermon for Epiphany–Where are you Going? (Matthew 2:1-12)
You can listen directly there and download the mp3 there.
The adoration of the Magi
Abraham Bloemaert (1564–1651) pic.twitter.com/SCRNGhprt4— Kalina Boulter (@KalinaBoulter) January 6, 2018
Jeff Miller’s Christmas Sermon for 2019–“No Room”
You may download it there or listen to it directly there from Saint Philip’s, Charleston, South Carolina.
(Local Paper) How Dabo Swinney’s Christian evangelism boosts Clemson recruiting
Swinney, an evangelical Christian, is reluctant to elaborate with reporters about his faith; he declined an interview request for this story. But in the moments after Clemson’s 44-16 win over Alabama in the College Football Playoff national championship game Jan. 7, he made a bold statement in front of a global audience.
“We beat Notre Dame and Alabama. We left no doubt. And we walk off this field tonight as the first 15-0 team in college football history,” he said. “All the credit, all the glory, goes to the good Lord.”
Recruiting new talent is perpetually on the minds of college football coaches, and Swinney, who will lead Clemson against Ohio State in the Dec. 28 Fiesta Bowl, has struck a chord with prospects who come from strong Christian backgrounds.
Players insist Swinney doesn’t force his views on others, but it’s clear faith is imbued in the program.
The results are the envy of the sport: five straight College Football Playoff appearances, two of the last three national titles, 28 consecutive wins.
“Only God can do this,” Swinney said Jan. 7 inside Levi’s Stadium, purple and orange confetti clumping on his pullover. “That’s a fact. People may think I’m crazy or quacky, or whatever.
“But only God can orchestrate this.”
The Post and Courier spoke to 13 current and incoming @ClemsonFB players for this story.
All attributed their college decision in large part to Swinney’s transparency about his faith. https://t.co/0xuygpvqBY
— The Post and Courier (@postandcourier) December 21, 2019
(Local Paper front page) Modern warfare is now happening online. South Carolina’s defense contractors are on the front lines.
The military’s most frequent battles are not fought on land, by sea or in the air. They’re fought online, every day, and South Carolina’s defense contractors are trying to stay ahead of the enemy.
Katie Arrington, a former state lawmaker who was appointed in January as a consultant for the Department of Defense, said Charleston in particular is key when it comes to cybersecurity against China, terrorist groups and individuals attempting to undermine government security.
“We’re at war,” Arrington told The Post and Courier. “Cyberwar is real. To think this community isn’t exposed to what our adversaries are trying to do every day in the cyber realm would be remiss. Our cyberwarriors, the people who work in the Charleston defense contractor community, are the first layer of defense.”
That was the theme this week when more than 1,400 business leaders, military officers and government employees gathered in North Charleston for the Charleston Defense Contractors Association’s 13th annual conference to discuss the evolution of warfare. For decades, the federal government has looked to the private sector to come up with solutions. And cyberwarfare is now big business in the Palmetto State.
The military’s most frequent battles are not fought on land, by sea or in the air.
They’re fought online every day, and South Carolina’s defense contractors are trying to stay ahead of the enemy.https://t.co/k0ZWCRR5Xn
— The Post and Courier (@postandcourier) December 13, 2019