Rector's Welcome

elcome to Saint John's, a parish church in the Diocese of Upper South Carolina. We belong to the Episcopal Church USA, and are members of the worldwide Anglican Communion. My hope is you will find this website as hospitable and interesting as you would our church and all its members, were you to visit in person.

Saint John's was formed in 1912; our church building dates to 1926. We are located in a lovely residential neighborhood called Shandon, just a mile or two from the State House in South Carolina's capital city of Columbia.

We are a congregation numbering about 1,300 baptized members of all ages, roughly 800 of whom we consider "communicants. " Our many ministries seek to serve our Lord Jesus Christ and his people, and to bring glory to God our Father, under the guidance and power of the Holy Spirit.

Read on and explore this site to learn more about our worship, our music, our children's and youth ministries, and much more. The wardens and other vestry members, and the dozen or so who make up my excellent staff, join me in welcoming you to Saint John's.

Yours faithfully,

J. Fletcher Montgomery+
Tenth Rector of Saint John's

Play Ball!
Basketball Camp for Boys and Girls

Basketball Camp for boys and girls rising 3rd - 6th grades will be held Tuesday - Thursday, August 12 - 14.  For more information and registration forms, see our web page on the Camp.   Bring a friend! Contact: Hope Komar, 738-9286.

St. John's & Youth Home Works

So, our group just got back from the Junior High Home Works Mission trip to Augusta, and it rocked! Go here to check out the youth mission blog. It has some pics and lets you know what we did each day. We'll try to do the same for each of the other two trips as well (internet access willing).

Thanks to Steve McMillan and Hope Komar for going along with us and providing great adult leadership and guidance. They were awesome! We think every adult parishioner should go on the Junior High mission trip. It would surprise you how great they work and behave. Check out the youth mission blog; we'll have more pictures and slide shows up in the next few days.

Men's Summer Reading: Blue Like Jazz

Blue Like Jazz:  Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality by Donald Miller is the topic of this Summer's Reading by the Tuesday Morning Men's Bible Study started June 24. But you can still grab the book and join us for some or all of the next several weeks! (School's out, dads, no excuses!) Preview and purchase the book at Amazon or at the Happy Bookseller.  (Books reserved under the name "Badgett.") For more information, contact Gordon Schell, 790-5329. Check out the reading schedule, then join us on Tuesday mornings.

Encore! Hear Chancel Choir's Anthems Again