Our name says a lot about us: St. Andrew’s On-the-Sound. While not overlooking Wrightsville Sound, we are close enough to the beach that our basic attitude is pretty laid back. We can’t help but feel that we track a little sand into the church whenever we enter. Our worship is traditional, but relaxed; our focus is on living our faith as God’s family in this place. Young families with kids, retirees, and folks in between find a comfortable home here.

Bring your faith and your doubts, your experience and your questions, and, above all, your hopes. There is comfort and joy in our community as share in worship, fellowship, learning, and service.

Plan Your Visit

Our namesake, St. Andrew was the first evangelist and came to Jesus trusting him as his teacher. Andrew wanted to learn, to know God, and to understand Jesus as Messiah.

We gather together in worship as we rejoice, pray, and contemplate the wonder of God. Our worship is best described as traditional and relaxed. Please do not worry about what to wear and when to stand up; after all Jesus wore sandals and we do too.

At St. Andrew’s On-the-Sound we do not tell you what to believe. You are invited into the journey at whatever place you are in your life. We are all sharing this journey together.

What We Believe

7:30am Holy Communion at Mt. Lebanon Chapel, 10:15am Holy Communion at St. Andrew’s, 5:30pm Celtic Evening Service in the Parish Hall

We are located on the way to Wrightsville Beach at the corner of Airlie Road and Military Cutoff Road/Oleander Drive, next to Airlie Gardens.

“For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also” (Matthew 6:21). We could as easily translate this as “where your money is…” and not miss the mark. When we give to support St. Andrew’s On-the-Sound we are helping to secure a place where our hearts feel at home. Everything we are as a loving community, our worship, our study, our service, and our play is founded on what we give together.

Come and see what God is doing in 2024

We are grateful for those who support this church by their presence Sunday to Sunday, and we invite others to join us again.
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Sunday Holy Eucharist services: 8:00am and 10:15am and Saturday Celtic Evening Service: 5:30pm · Details

101 Airlie Road, Wilmington, NC • 910-256-3034 Prayer Request

A Letter from St. Andrew’s Music Ministry, with links for devotional music

Brendan Murphy on April 4, 2023

Dear Friends,

April brings the most important days of the church year. These liturgical days of Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday, and Easter Day make up Holy Week. Thursday through Saturday also comprise the Easter Triduum, where we tell the story of our faith through spoken word, music, tradition, and sacrament. We walk with Jesus through his entry into the Holy City on the donkey, the first celebration of the Eucharist, his passion and death, and his glorious resurrection. Truly, our Christian faith hinges on these most special days.

As you can likely imagine, there has been untold volumes of choral music, instrumental music, and congregational song written for these remarkable observances. I always find it so difficult to narrow down the music that we can share together in our services during this time of the year. While we have the opportunity to sing and hear much music in church during Holy Week, there is always so much left that we just cannot include for various reasons. During this month, I encourage you to listen on YouTube to hymns and choral music to help further observe this time. A quick Google search provided two diverse sets of choral music:

For the second set of music,

Listen on Spotify Here

While the above playlists may be helpful for your personal devotion, nothing replaces being in church and community together singing the hymns of the season and hearing music for choir and instruments.We learned this particularly during the pandemic.I hope you will make plans now to join us throughout Holy Week and Eastertide for services at St. Andrew’s.I especially invite you to come on Easter Day.The choir plans to sing at the 9:00 and 11:15 AM services.

Let us join in community to worship our crucified and risen Lord.

Blessings,

Justin Smith

Category: Lent, Holy Week, and Easter