Centennial Celebration | St. Andrew's on the Sound

A One Hundred Year Journey

2023-2024 marks the centenary of St. Andrew's On-the-Sound, a community crafted from a foundation of love and fellowship, welcome and worship.

How can I celebrate the centennial?

Join us as we celebrate in grand style!
Visit our online shop for all your centennial swag and style needs!
Attend worship, picnics, and parties as we come together in community and fellowship.

There will be information forthcoming as celebratory events are finalized; for now please mark your calendars for these important events.

Cornerstone Weekend
October 14 & 15, 2023

Cornerstone Community Celebration
Saturday, Oct 14 at 10 AM at St. Andrew's
We gather together with our bishop, civic officials,
and members of our congregation to remember and
celebrate the 100 year anniversary of the laying of
the cornerstone.

Family Picnic
Saturday, October 14, 11:00 to 2:30 pm at the
historic Mt. Lebanon Chapel at Airlie Gardens
Join us for picnic fun 1923 style at the Lebanon.
Mt. Lebanon is where St. Andrew's congregation
first gathered and continues to gather to this day.
Fun, Food & Games are the order of the day!

Sunday Worship
Sunday, October 15
We celebrate 100 years of worship with
The Right Reverend Robert Skirving,
Bishop of the Diocese of East Carolina.

Celebration of the Building & Congregation
April 26-28, 2024

Join us as we celebrate the centennial of worship
in our beloved space at 101 Airlie Road.
We will celebrate in grand centennial style!

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The Rev. Richard G. Elliott

Rector

Welcome What We Believe Leadership FAQs Visitor Card Getting Here

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 FAQs

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 Lebanon Chapel 10:00am Holy Communion at St. Andrew's

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 2023

We are rediscovering what it is like for “two or three to gather” and we are rediscovering what it is to worship, study, and play together. We are grateful for those who support this church by their presence Sunday to Sunday, and we invite others to join us again. One of the sentiments I hear most often these days is, “It’s better when we’re together.”

As we move forward into 2023, we can only do so with your continued support...Click to find out more.

Learn about planned giving and the endowment fund.

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