By Jessica Connor. A group of committed, faithful South Carolina United Methodist pastors are starting a movement to reclaim and renew the church for the future, and they hope everyone will catch the spirit.
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Bridging the gap: promoting connection through fitness
By Valarie Flowers. One South Carolina woman is using her gifts to bridge a generational gap.
Read MoreThe ‘united’ in United Methodist
By Jessica Connor. There I was, hairnet on, notebook in hand, all prepared to cover the Great Day of Service hunger packaging event in the Greenville District. Except I couldn’t really move. I stood there, mesmerized, looking around at the sea of faces. I watched kids younger than my young son being runners, transporting plastic bags of rice, soy and dehydrated vegetables from the stuffing table to the weighing table, their heads high with pride and determination.
Read MoreAC 2012: ‘Invitation to a Changed Life’
By Jessica Connor. In less than three months, hundreds of members of the S.C. Conference of the United Methodist Church will gather in Florence to pray, fellowship and ultimately decide the business of the church in this state.
Read MoreAdvocate wins four SCPA awards
The Advocate has been honored with four more writing awards by the S.C. Press Association.
Read MoreThe Bridge: Tuesday night ministry reaches out to the broken with the healing love of Christ
By Jessica Connor. All too well, Victoria Webber remembers life on the streets: scavenging garbage cans for a meal. Drugs. Prostitution. Shacking up with someone, anyone, just for a warm place to sleep.
Read MoreUMC Plan B: South Carolinians help draft alternative global church restructuring plan
By Jessica Connor. One of the most significant pieces of legislation slated for the United Methodist Church’s upcoming General Conference is a sweeping church restructuring plan that has many in the denomination concerned.
Read MoreS.C. woman to be commissioned a deaconess during GC2012
By Jessica Connor. She’s young, she’s a firefighter and she’s about to be the first South Carolina woman in years to be commissioned as a United Methodist deaconess during General Conference.
Read MoreRecipe for success: ‘Cooking pastor’ helps bring congregation together
By Jessica Connor. The Rev. Frank McCoy knows the power of a good home-cooked meal. The sort of meal that brings people together, gets the conversation flowing, makes you want to kick up your heels and let out a big contented sigh that says I’m home.
Read MoreNorthside UMC uses live video to reach elderly in Christ Jesus
By Jessica Connor. New technology is helping one United Methodist Church reach an older generation for the Kingdom.
Read MoreS.C. to lead cross-racial, cross-cultural training
By Jessica Connor. In the Kingdom of God there is no United Methodist section or Presbyterian section, no white or African-American section. We are all together as the body of Christ. And it’s time we started living into that during Sunday morning worship. That is the idea behind Building God’s Beloved Community, a training May 31 and June 1 by the S.C. Conference of the United Methodist Church.
Read MoreWhy should we care?
By Jessica Connor. A set-aside bishop. A General Council for Strategy and Oversight. Whether 13 agencies will morph into nine. Whether oversight of the church will rest in the hands of 600 or 45 or 150. Does any of this really impact me at the local church level?
Read MoreJust imagine
By Bishop Mary Virginia Taylor. Imagination is a wonderful part of who we are as human beings.
Read MoreGC 2012: S.C. delegates to join UMs across globe for quadrennial legislative gathering
By Jessica Connor. TAMPA, Fla.—In less than two months, 988 delegates from around the world will come together for the United Methodist Church s quadrennial legislative gathering: General Conference.
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