By Jessica Brodie. Planning has shifted to the final phase for this year’s Annual Conference, a shortened, mostly online event that will be livestreamed from the Florence Center June 6-7. But make no mistake—while the conference will be online, organizers consider it to be no less of a celebration and opportunity for gathering as traditional, in-person Annual Conference has been.
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By Jessica Brodie. About 350 Guatemalan men and women can see more clearly now thanks to the efforts of a United Methodist medical mission there.
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By Jessica Brodie. One church opened its arms to the entire Rock Hill community after a mass shooting claimed the lives of a much-loved local physician, his wife and two young grandchildren, and two air conditioning technicians who happened to be working on their home at the time.
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By Jessica Brodie. One United Methodist in South Carolina is putting out a cry for help in joining him with aid for Haiti.
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This month, the Advocate Press releases its newest book, addressing the need for what the author calls “great Black preaching in the midst of a tri-pandemic of disease, racism and poverty.”
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By Billy Robinson. South Carolina Early Response Team members responded to a dire call for disaster help from Alabama after several deadly tornados ravaged their state, killing five, injuring many and reaping havoc on homes, farms and businesses. A 15-member ERT team comprising volunteers from across South Carolina, along with two disaster response trailers, responded to Bibb County April 5-8, 2021. Bibb County is just south of Birmingham. The team worked out of Brent United Methodist Church, in Brent, Alabama.
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The South Carolina United Methodist Advocate has been honored with two more journalism excellence awards this spring. These latest are from the Religion Communicators Council, an interfaith group of religious communicators founded in 1929.
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By Jessica Brodie. The contents of the World Methodist Council Museum will head to Texas. That’s the word from the council in its April “First Friday Letter,” which stated the Bridwell Library, Perkins School of Theology and SMU Libraries at Southern Methodist University in Dallas will receive the contents “in entirety.”
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By Dan O’Mara. The UMCSC has launched Clergy Care, a new ministry designed to help pastors and other ministers access resources and opportunities for support and personal growth.
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By the Rev. Darlene L. Kelley. We squirm to navigate the armholes of our Day-Glo orange safety vests and pick up our green bags. Pumping the handles of our also-orange “garbage grabbers” that look a bit like giant lobster claws, we make our way along the edge of Mount Pleasant Road, amazed at how much litter lines the asphalt.
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By Dan O’Mara. More than 400 clergy from across the South Carolina Conference of The United Methodist Church gathered virtually recently for a wide-ranging conversation about one of the conference’s most important initiatives in recent years: Our Response to Racism.
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John Holler will step down after 15 years as Epworth’s President and CEO.
Read MoreBrown Swamp United Methodist Church in Conway benefited from COVID because it forced them to reimagine their children’s Easter event.
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On May 4, 2021, various United Methodist ministries, schools and other organizations will be participating in the annual Midlands Gives event.
Read MoreBy Jessica Brodie. Have you ever been frustrated because you can’t do something you desperately, fervently want to do?
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By Bishop L. Jonathan Holston. Walking with Bishop Knox into the town of Alajuela, I asked him his expectations of clergy. He responded, “To be on the cutting edge of ministry, making a difference for the sake of Christ.”
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This Easter, people unable to leave their homes because of illness or other issues will get some springtime cheer courtesy of an Easter lily delivery project led by the Rock Hill District of the UMC.
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One United Methodist church in South Carolina is stepping up to meet a need, helping seniors and others get registered for their COVID-19 vaccine. And now, other churches are doing the same.
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Organizers of General Conference have again postponed the worldwide United Methodist gathering. The new date is Aug. 29 to Sept. 6, 2022, to be held in Minneapolis.
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By Jessica Brodie
It was shorter than years past—just two hours on a Friday night—and many of the participants weren’t even gathered in-person. But those who attended the Men n Ministry “One in the Spirit” men’s spiritual retreat said it was just as powerful and Spirit-filled as the rest.
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