Charleston Presbyterian and Charlestowne Southern Methodist are inviting 
you and your family to join us for a Community Thanksgiving Worship Service and covered dish luncheon (bring your own side dish) on Sunday, November 18th at 11:00 AM. The luncheon will directly follow at Noon. Please call the CPC church office (843) 437-8219 for more details. We would love to have you and your family as our guests and to celebrate Thanksgiving together with us. May the Lord bless you and your family abundantly!
In 1863, Abraham Lincoln wrote the following proclamation: “We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of heaven; we have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity; we have grown in numbers, wealth and power as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us. And we have vainly imagined in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own.
Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us. It has seemed to me fit and proper that God should be solemnly, reverently, and gratefully acknowledged, as with one heart and one voice, by the whole American people. I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November as a day of Thanksgiving and praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the heavens.”
Thanksgiving was intended to be a national, yearly celebration of the countless blessings of God upon us even amidst the difficulties and tragedies of life – even during civil war. It was supposed to be a time to reflect on God’s many blessings in our lives. Thanksgiving is about a divine God Who continually blesses this nation of His people.
We look forward to seeing you this Sunday at 11:00 AM!