The Orthodox Anglican Church was incorporated in 1964 as a Province of the Holy Catholic Church. Good Shepherd is a parish church of the Orthodox Anglican Church in America. We are a member of the worldwide Orthodox Anglican Communion which encompasses churches through the United States, Italy, Eastern Europe, India, and Africa.

COMING ATTRACTIONS 

To request prayers for a special intention, e-mail your request to - PrayerRequest1@hotmail.com. Requests will be posted on the "Prayers" page of this site.

ST. PAUL'S BY THE SEA - The congregants of St. Paul's meet at the Volunteer EMS facility in Calabash, NC (across from Ace Hardware) on Saturdays at 5:00 pm. Please call Call Canon Jones at 843-839-3330 or Gloria Lee at 910-579-0949 for more information. Also, see the webpage on this site.

“I am the bread of life” - The John 6:35 initiative is officially underway. If you wish to commit to contributing $6.35 in food or cash monthly, please sign up in the vestibule, near the pink food basket. Cans, bags etc. will be labeled as…Given by the Christians at Good Shepherd Anglican Church. There is a serious shortage of help for the needy in the Myrtle Beach area. The items will be collected at the first of each month and delivered to Community Assistance. Cash donations will be given to the Low Country Food Bank.   Thanks for your continued generosity.

NEW THIS WEEK ON THE WEB:  Check out "Reflections on the Readings" on the Home Page.  This is a summary of the Sunday sermon.  Also, the Sunday sermon may be viewed on the Sermons page.   Other items of interest can be found throughout the following pages.

SCHEDULE OF SERVICES

Sundays Holy Eucharist at 11 am

Wednesdays Holy Eucharist and Healing at 12 Noon

Saturdays Holy Eucharist at 5 pm at St. Paul's By The Sea

FAST AND FEAST DAYS

1. Sts. Philip and James, Apostles

2. Athanasius, Bishop

17. Ascension Day

27. Pentecost

31. Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Contact Information

The Rev. Canon T. Creighton Jones, Rector

Church phone: 843-839-3330

Cell phone: 843-333-3391

creogo@earthlink.net

The Rev. Fr. James W. Murray, Curate

Home phone: 843-650-4766

jwm989sc@aol.com 

Map to Good Shepherd

Our History

Good Shepherd Orthodox Anglican Church was formed in the fall of 2003. Our original founding membership has grown from 13 to nearly 80. We acquired our current facility in November 2003 and look forward to growing our membership and our facility and our outreach into the Myrtle Beach community. The Good Shepherd mission is to worship God through the Sacraments using orthodox Anglican practices as directed by Holy Scriptures, and to express Christ’s love through service to others.

As the only Orthodox Anglican Church in the greater Grand Strand area, we welcome all who truly seek God regardless of prior denominational affiliation. As Anglicans, we worship God using the traditional Book of Common Prayer and the Authorized Version of the Bible. We are led by Bishops who trace their Apostolic Succession through the Apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ and enjoy the same Episcopal Succession as the See of Canterbury, among others.

We are located in the heart of the Grand Strand at 700 35^th Avenue North, Myrtle Beach, SC, and our phone number is 843-839-3330. 

A Welcome from the Rector

If you are new to the beach area, just visiting or looking for something else in your religious life, let me welcome you to Good Shepherd Orthodox Anglican Church. We are a traditional Anglican church. We are traditional in the sense that we prefer to retain the true values of our faith and are not influenced by current social pressures to be “inclusive” to the point that we stray from strict biblical teachings. Sermons are based on the true Gospel message and our core belief “that the Holy Scriptures contain all things necessary for salvation.” Although we are small in number, we are great in spirit and we try to express Christ’s love through service to others and by loving each other accordingly. Please consider worshipping with us. I think you will find the worship experience meaningful. We need YOU!

Blessings,

Canon Jones+

The Rev. Canon T. Creighton Jones, Rector

2011 Church Picnic

See "Photo Ops"...page 2 for pictures of the Annual Church Picnic at Myrtle Beach State Park. Members of both St. Paul's and Good Shepherd enjoyed a great service and picnic.

The Coming Year??? 

At this time of year, many people examine  their spiritual lives and make decisions  about the kind of weekly religious experience  they want.  If you are searching for a new  direction, please consider worshipping with us. 

We are traditional Anglicans who believe in established Bible based doctrine. 

Good Shepherd Anglican Church

700 35^th Avenue North in Myrtle Beach 

 (843) 839-3330  www.myrtlebeachanglican.com 

Now forming...St. Paul’s by the Sea

Currently meeting in Calabash, NC, Saturdays @ 5:00 pm

See the dedicated page on this website.  

Reflections on the Readings…Easter V (Rogation Sunday)

St. John 16: 23-33

The Purpose of the Spirit by Canon Jones

In today’s Gospel lesson, Jesus is speaking to his disciples and instructing them to stay in Jerusalem until, “they are endued with power from on high.”  Now they must have wondered exactly what this power from on high might be.  I’m sure that their concept of the Holy Spirit must have been much like that which is imagined by many Christians.  A generation ago A. W. Tozer wrote that when the average Christian thinks about the Holy Spirit: "he is likely to imagine a nebulous substance like a wisp of invisible smoke which is said to be present in churches and to over hover good people when they die".  Part of our problem is that the Holy Spirit seems so mystical. We can picture God the Father, because we’ve all seen fathers. We can picture God the Son because through the incarnation, he became human and we can read about what he did and what he’s like. But when we try to picture the Holy Spirit our minds go blank, and we end up with symbols like a dove, or wind, or fire.  The real confusion comes not in who the Holy Spirit is but in what he does. This is because it is Holy Spirit who makes God real to us. The Holy Spirit brings us into an experience with God through Jesus Christ. The Holy Spirit, then, is the wellspring of all genuine Christian experience, so it’s not surprising that Christians would differ about what the Holy Spirit does since Christians have such different personal experiences with God.

So, just what is the Holy Spirit’s primary purpose?

…is it to encourage us to pray?

…is it to help us feel good about being Christian’

…does the Holy spirit cause us to get “pumped up”; as in being filled with the Holy Spirit?

Well, the Holy Spirit can certainly be a part of all of those things.  However, there is ONE, very specific thing that describes the main purpose of the Holy Spirit.  The main purpose of the Holy Spirit is to Glorify the Son of God!  John tells us later on in chapter 16…(14:) He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you.  That wonderful old evangelist Charles Spurgeon wrote in 1894…”It IS the CHIEF office of the Holy Spirit to glorify Christ. He does many things, but this is what he aims at in all of them, to glorify Christ. Brethren, what the Holy Ghost does must be right for us to imitate: therefore, let us endeavour to glorify Christ.”

The job of the Holy Spirit is to glorify, make known, manifest and  to put on public display Jesus Christ. Any time the Holy Spirit gets more attention than Jesus Christ, you have a problem.  Anything that lessens the Person and work of Jesus Christ; no matter how nice it makes you feel, or how excited you get, is not the Holy Spirit.

This week we celebrate Ascension Day; 40 days after Easter, the end of the season of Easter…ten days before Pentecost.  Ascension Day marks the last appearance of Jesus to the disciples after his resurrection at Easter.  The name 'ascension' comes from the accounts in the Bible in Mark's Gospel and Luke's Gospel that tell of Jesus being taken up into heaven - he ascended.  Jesus told his disciples that he would always be with them, and promised them the gift of the Holy Spirit (at Pentecost) .On Ascension Day, Christians should celebrate the kingship of Jesus.

I hope that the message of our Lord’s ascension will be for you a message of hope, joy and reassurance.  I trust that this Eastertide has given you an opportunity to examine your relationship with Jesus Christ to the point that you understand just how powerful and enduring his love is for each and everyone of us.  Amen.

 St. Nicholas Festival

Our annual St. Nicholas Festival was held on Saturday, December 3.  See "Photo Ops" for pictures.

Sermons for this week and three previous weeks can be viewed on the "Weekly Sermon" page of this website. 

Important Link to the Orthodox Anglican Church

http://orthodoxanglican.net/html/metropolitan.html