ST. JOHN'S RETURNS TO EPISCOPAL CHURCH SERVICES ON JULY 17 (tentative)

The Rev. Greg Snyder, rector of St. John's, on Johns Island, Charleston, announced in church this morning that the 10th of July would be the last Anglican service in St. John's. It will also be his last service before he leaves for his new job in Tennessee. There will be one service in St. John's that day. The last Anglican service in Grace Chapel will be on the 3rd of July.

Starting on the 17th of July, the Anglican congregation will begin worshiping in Haut Gap Middle School, at 1861 Bohicket Rd., Johns Island. 

Mr. Snyder emphasized this morning that the congregation must remain "unified" as it moves out and efforts are being made to make that happen. 

All of these dates are tentative, as Snyder also emphasized. However, the SC Supreme Court has already issued the Remit order to the circuit court directing the transfer of St. John's property to the Episcopal diocese. It is just a matter of time before the court implements the order.

If these dates hold, Episcopal clergy will appear in St. John's on July 17, 2022 for the restoration of the parish to the Episcopal Church and Diocese of South Carolina. 

If all goes as planned, St. John's will be the first of the parishes to be restored to the Episcopal Church. The SC Supreme Court has ordered fourteen parishes to be restored; however, seven of them still have petitions for rehearing before the SCSC. Last week, the SCSC sent a Remit order to the circuit court directing the lower court to implement the transfer of seven, of the fourteen, to the Episcopal diocese.