Preferred Name: Ted
Title: Minister of Worship & Praise Teams
Position Description: Leadership and oversight of Praise Team. Help provide music for other ministry-related events. Oversight of leadership that supports the liturgical worship of the parish: Lay Eucharistic Ministers, Acolytes, etc… Assist in other priestly functions of the parish as circumstance requires and time allows.
Family: wife: Annetta. Married 28 years. Two grown children, Tay and Elizabeth. One grandchild, Elise.
Favorite Books: The Gospel of John; The Four Quartets, T.S. Eliot ; Trilogy of The Ring, Tolkien; most everything C.S. Lewis has ever written; and a couple of hilarious golf books.
Favorite Movies: Depends on the day and the mood.
Likes Best About the Lowcountry: I get to go and read on the beach when everyone else goes back home to live their inland life. The hunting is pretty good and I can play golf 12 months out of the year. The tidal marshes are fascinating and alive
Most Interesting Assignment: Upon reflection I’d have to say the truth is a generalization: the life of ministry is like the tidal marshes…always alive, full of constant change, moving to the rhythm of the Holy Spirit. So the answer is “always now.”
Ted McNabb comes to St. Michaels with a love of Jesus Christ and His worship and thirty two years of ordained ministry experience. In April he retired after serving as rector of Christ Church, Mt. Pleasant for over eleven years, during which time the parish grew from a congregation of five hundred to one of twelve hundred. Prior to that he was rector of Trinity, Pinopolis for nine and a half years, rector of Church of the Advent in the Mississippi Delta for four years, and associate rector for seven years at Grace-St. Lukes in Mid-town Memphis. In 1980 Ted released his first recording, Walker of The Way and, while still attached to parish ministry, began a music ministry that developed nationally over the ensuing twenty years. He has performed numerous “teaching concerts” along with being music and worship leader for many conferences around the country. Ted would also be asked to lead weekend workshops to help parishes learn to develop musicians and a vision to enfold “renewal” music into the standard fabric of traditional worship. During this season Ted’s compositions resulted in a total of four recordings professionally produced in Nashville (his hometown). He hopes to begin writing again in this fresh season of his ministry. He and Annetta have been married for twenty eight years and have two grown children and one grandchild and are excited to be a part of the vision for St. Michael’s parish.
Recent articles in the Messenger Newsletter
Archived articles
- Praise Team Ascends
by the Rev. Ted McNabb “OK, why are you guys way up there now? Can’t see you like we used to!” There are several very good reasons why the Praise Team for the 6:00 Contemporary Service has moved its leadership headquarters to the northeast corner of the balcony.
- “I Can’t Sing… So Why Should I?”
How many times have I heard this one over the decades I’ve been leading worship music! In every congregation on Sunday mornings while worship songs are being sung I look around and see a number of people, men mostly, standing with mouths clamped sh...
- Morning Prayer at St. Michael’s: A Slight Adjustment
Let me “cut to the chase” first, then I’ll give you a little background in case you’re interested. In 2011 we are going to move the placement of the sermon in the Morning Prayer service at 10:30. Until now the sermon has been placed at the...
- The Most Important Week of The Year: A Reflection from The New Guy
by the Rev. Ted McNabb Being an Episcopalian all my life and now with thirty three years of ordained ministry under my belt, in terms of the Anglican vision for Holy Week and the liturgy that honors it I’m an old hand. But in terms of walking th...
- The Unconquerable Cross
The big wooden cross is striking when viewed against the backdrop of Charleston harbor. It is placed by First Baptist Church at the apex of the walkway that runs the length of the Battery wall a few days before Easter in anticipation of the Sunrise S...
- 07-17-11 "Holy Gardening" The Rev. Edward T. McNabb, Jr.
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- Gifts For Worship
After a ten year hiatus I’m starting again to work on lyric and song composition. It’s slow going. But, then, it’s always been that way for me. My point in beginning my article this way is, really, to say thank you. Through my being given...
- A Way of Life
For me (and I know I speak for Annetta as well) the most important conversion in our approach to church stewardship was not tithing. It was having our spiritual eyesight healed to the point where we realized stewardship is not really a “segment” ...
- Commentary on O Search oh My God
Rob McRae and I have been encouraging one another to find ways to break back into old creative territory. For me that would mean the realm of lyric writing. As I mentioned in my last article (Gifts For Worship), the reentry point for me in the writ...
- 01-01-12 " In the Name of Jesus" The Rev. Edward T. McNabb, Jr.
- Things Don't "Just Happen"
The thing about a routine (whether it’s a good routine or a bad habit) is that after a while they become so woven into the fabric of your experience that you tend not to notice them anymore. It gives the impression that things happen because they a...
- 04-22-12 "Easter In The Present Tense" The Rev. Edward T. McNabb, Jr.
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