I have been participating in this wonderful church for almost a year now. We are new in town and the people of St. Peters have wrapped their arms around us, inviting us to participate with them at Connect groups and social events. The preaching is always thought-provoking and biblically based. I am inspired weekly to go deeper into my relationship with God. We love the Saint Peters app- it allows us to listen to the Pastor TJ Johnston's message again or for the first time if our life takes us away from St Peter's on a Sunday morning. The music is contemporary and led by worship leader and band that support the message of the week. We love praying through this music! I have prayed with these women about the concerns of our lives and felt their true concern. When one of us hurts we all hurt, we celebrate our joys and give thanks for the blessings of this life together. read more

On April 3, my husband and I visited St. Peter's with our 2 grade-school aged grandchildren. ALL 4 of us were pleased, impressed, and happy with our experience. Everyone (greeters, staff, musicians, fellow worshipers) were friendly and very welcoming to us as 1st time visitors. The order of worship was casual though theologically sound so I think any Christian, regardless of denominational background, would feel comfortable participating. The music/singing was contemporary, though personally, I would have like one traditional hymn. The sermon, based on Mark 5:1-20,(Jesus casting out the demons at the Sea of Galilee) as excellent. The pastor explained the New Testament background then applied it to our lives today--all very well done! Communion followed, using matzos (with gluten free available), very appropriate during Lent. During Communion, prayer counselors prayed individually with those who desired prayer. During the sermon, our grandchildren attended Children's Church for 5-10/12 year olds. All in all, we definitely felt God's presence here; when we are in Mt. Pleasant on a Sunday, we definitely plan to attend again. read more

We have attended St Peters for 10 years and we love the fellowship, the different ages and the family feel. We have grown spiritually and hope we have been good servants for Christ read more

Review Be very careful and wary about this church's new prayer ministry, the woman leading it, and the women who are chosen to lead prayer appointments. None of the women involved are licensed counselors with any training or experience. Many of them do not even have respected college degrees or any ambitions to admire and follow. If you were to get counseling, they won't have a clue as to what your issues are or how to help you; they just presume to have some authority to do so. You will be gossiped about behind your back. You will be emotionally pressured (manipulated) to fill out personal and invasive forms, because they want to keep them on file against your will/permission or even necessity to "pray over" continuously. It is a pie-in-the-sky ministry on their own terms forced upon people. They expect you to share everything with them with a sense of the local self-entitlement. It is important to note that if you go to a counselor for help of any kind, there are serious repercussions if the counselor betrays client confidentiality or abuses their clients, to include a lawsuit against them and losing their license. These women are not under any such moral or ethical standards, which is why they have no qualifications other than "feeling called," and they have no concern of any professional consequences of their unethical behavior. It is not a ministry of people who have benefited from it themselves. Get to know the women and behind closed doors, you will see that they TALK and GOSSIP about each other and when they get you alone ("So-and-so needs medication and I told her so"/Are you divorced like me? My husband cheated on me."/Southern belle bimbo talk about boobjobs and plastic surgery etc.,), so whatever you reveal to them privately and in prayer, they will talk carelessly about. The Scripture is very clear not to do this. This speaks to a very sick and unhealthy environment and of one that keeps women emotionally codependent on already unhealthy individuals, which they are neglecting about themselves. This also speaks to persistent sin that allows evil to come in and work. You may be sure that shame is used amongst these women and against each other, and that witchcraft and spiritual manipulation is practiced at this church in a degree and that Satan already has a place here. The pastor shows no concern for this. This is the underbelly of the church beyond Sunday mornings and the mainly social events that they host for the city instead of Gospel mission. You will not find respect for the Bible or the true Gospel in this prayer ministry. It is a local knock-off of Christian Healing Ministries based in Florida, which they freely admit that they are copying. There are already so many local, inspired, and original ministries here in Charleston. You will be treated to elementary school-level spirituality in prayers from a sheet of paper or from a book for you to spout out, but NOT the Holy Bible and NOT anything taking into consideration your own spiritual growth and needs. You will be meeting with old women late in their lives who are desperate to get this ministry off the ground and claw anyone in, because they have lost their calling and purpose and identity, or perhaps never had it to begin with, and they are hoping that this copycat ministry will be it. Get into actual "community" with St. Peter's and you will find what the women in particular actually do in their relationships. All of this can be seen during times spent outside of the church (meeting for coffee/going out to dinner/riding in the car, etc.). Be very wary in particlar of the primary woman (Lori) who leads this ministry and organizes prayer appointments, especially in her methodology and example, whatever you communicate to her over the phone or in the forms she gives you. She is probably divorced/cheated on and embittered about something in her marriage, like many of the women there and the things they talk about and treat anyone new as competition/gossip fodder instead of actually growing or benefitting from the ministry. Like a sales pitch, you will be pestered nonstop in email or in phone calls to fill out forms for personal information and without any honest/upfront explanation of her intentions = deception. It is all very in-the-dark. You will be pestered in total disregard to your own free will and the life you lead the rest of the week before Christ and your own personal business. Again, she has no respectable training or even any common courtesy and manners, and has no qualms with encroaching upon your life outside church. NOT a healthy church or community. It is important to know that the first love of St. Peter's is MONEY and REAL ESTATE and SALES. It is even used in their language and techniques. Please consider all of your resources elsewhere and the work of the Holy Spirit in ministries He has originally instigated, and ministries and churches that are living biblically both to your face and behind closed doors. read more