An individual to play the organ for two services on Sunday mornings at the Historic Campus, one traditional (8am) and the other blended (10am). ...Keep Reading

I love starting a New Year. How strange that the passing of the date from December 31st to January 1st can give us a sense of closing an old chapter and starting a new one. Yet, it does!...Keep Reading

Every year The Church of the Cross is involved in Operation Christmas Child. Every year we collect more and more boxes, this year it was 600....Keep Reading

I have a different view of Christmas than in years past. Lisa has always done the Christmas shopping for our children's gifts. It has gotten increasingly harder as our family has grown. Last year I made suggestions of better ways she could shop for the children's gifts. ...Keep Reading

From October 29 - November 13, The Church of the Cross passed out and collected shoeboxes for Operation Christmas Child. The response was wonderful, surpassing the 2015 program....Keep Reading

He was a fixture on Sunday mornings for over two years. From my perch beside the front steps of our historic church, I would see him arriving on his bicycle as I greeted folks streaming out of the early service. ...Keep Reading

Having farmed for many years in rural South Carolina, I know that one can deduce a lot about a fellow from his pickup truck. Suspecting that the same could be said about a fellow and his boat, from my vantage point on the Bluff I begin to "Sherlock" the strange situation of the mysterious sailboat....Keep Reading

It’s Wednesday, October 12, 2016; and tonight Becky and I are looking forward to sleeping in our own bed, despite still being without electricity....Keep Reading

The Church of the Cross will be celebrating and honoring the life of Brad Donaldson this Tuesday, September 20 at 4:00pm on the Historic Campus. This past week Brad suffered a massive heart attack and died. He was just 50 years old. Even now it is hard to comprehend because he was one of the toughest and fittest people I've known....Keep Reading

Wars and rumors of war set the context for my early childhood years . . .CEO the 2nd I suspect I would have hardly noticed the transition from World War II to the Korean War were it not for two events: my father (a career naval officer) was stationed ashore and I discovered the Army-Navy Surplus Store on King Street in Charleston, SC....Keep Reading