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Centennial Celebration

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 commun…

Lent, Holy Week, and Easter

Opportunities for Fellowship, Study, and Worship are plentiful at St. Andrew's as we walk together through Lent, Holy Week, and Easter 2023. You are welcome to join as at anytime.

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Parish Events

What is St. Andrew's known for?

We are known for our love of fellowship. By being together we grow into our best selves and become part of a life-giving and liberating Christian community.

St. Andrew's gathers throughout the year for formal events and pop-up events are our new favorite thing! Pop Up Game Night for kids and adults was great fun this past summer. There is always a…

Small Groups

Upcoming Events

Adult Classes

Sundays at 10:00am

While the children and youth are in classes, Adults may choose to attend the offering of the day.

We rotate offerings for Adults to include:

Group Bible Study, held in the Conference Room of the Parish Hall Building
Episcopalian 101, an adult confirmation class led by our rector, Richard Elliott, held in the Old Parish Hall
Invite, Welcome, Connect, a…

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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

7:45am Holy Communion Lebanon Chapel 9:00am, 11:15am 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.

Other Ways to Give