A newly formed outreach committee works as a team with the rector in directing the parish's role in meeting the needs of those outside the parish family. Parishioners have expressed an increasing interest in outreach, and the 1997 budget includes a separate outreach line item for the first time. The parish is part of Clemson Congregations in Touch, an ecumenical, interracial group of churches in the community that work together to coordinate local mission programs.
Parishioners are also active in many other local programs.
St. Paul's Thrift Shop, a project of the Episcopal Church Women, serves the needs of the community and is also an important source of income for other outreach programs. In addition to maintaining St. Paul's, proceeds from the thrift shop help support a child in York Place. The ECW Christmas Bazaar and a spring White Elephant Sale raise money for local charities such as Meals on Wheels and the Salvation Army. Our parish has a special concern for the diocesan mission to Haiti because of the personal involvement of parish physicians who visit that country on a regular basis to work in the clinic at Cange. Our congregation has been active in raising funds for the clinic, and we have sponsored a child who needed to come to the US for surgery.