The Chapel Without Walls moves to The Cypress

The Chapel Without Walls interdenominational church on Hilton Head Island will move to The Cypress beginning with the 9:30 a.m. service on Sunday, June 5.

The chapel has been meeting at Congregation Beth Yam for the past 10 years. It opened in 2004 as a progressive, inclusive Christian congregation under John M. Miller, who had been the pastor of First Presbyterian Church on Hilton Head for 17 years.

“From its inception, the average age of chapel attendants has been about 70 years of age,” Miller said. “Each year a small number of new people find their way to the chapel, but each year a few other regulars no longer attend because of moving out of our community, chronic illness, or death. This pattern is like that of thousands for other mainline Protestant congregations, as well as Roman Catholic and evangelical churches.”

Miller said this led the chapel to ask The Cypress retirement community in Hilton Head Plantation for permission to hold services at Cypress Hall.

“The Cypress administration and regime board kindly and enthusiastically extended the invitation,” Miller said.

Worship is followed by a fellowship time, and then an open forum, which ordinarily is a discussion of whatever is the sermon theme for that day.

For more information, contact Miller at 843-682-2323.

This story was originally published May 18, 2016 at 2:01 PM with the headline "The Chapel Without Walls moves to The Cypress."