By the day’s end, the body had approved a $15.6 million budget for 2023, closed five churches and merged three others into one, endorsed Conference Secretary the Rev. Ken Nelson as the conference’s episcopal nominee and approved a 6 percent cost-of-living increase for pastors. By Jessica Brodie.
An Annual Conference service celebrated 18 newly commissioned and ordained clergy and honored 41 retirees. By Jessica Brodie.
Dr. Robin Dease Dease brought a word on costly and sometimes painful sacrifice to the intimate in-person crowd of family and other loved ones gathered at Union United Methodist Church, Irmo, to honor the ministers, retired ministers, clergy spouses and others who passed away since last year’s Annual Conference.
Five churches were remembered and a new church celebrated during the last business session of the 2022 Annual Conference. By Allison Trussell.
The Judicial Council has ruled the Council of Bishops is authorized to set the date of regular jurisdictional conferences for the election and assignment of new bishops for the limited purpose of effectuating the continuance of the episcopacy in The United Methodist Church. SEJ Conference is set for Nov. 2-4, 2022.
A transitional facility for homeless veterans has been named in honor of Parker Evatt, a longtime United Methodist state leader.
The youth at First UMC selected an international mission project with the church’s mission partners in Nicaragua. The mission project was to supply a rural village in Wina Central with fresh water.
Port Royal UMC offered its church parking lot as the drop-off point for food distribution agencies and churches on May 26.
Lowell Street UMC, Greenwood, has started a new ministry, Cupboard and Closet, recently.
On April 27, at the invitation of the Finney family, I attended the South Carolina Supreme Court Historical Society’s Annual Meeting. There, the life and legacy of Chief Justice Ernest A. Finney, former chief justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court, was honored. By Dr. J. Elbert Wiliams
When Annual Conference convenes on June 5, it will meet on the 50th anniversary of the last sessions of the 1866 and 1785 conferences and of the convening of the new South Carolina Annual Conference. By Dr. Phillip Stone.
Thousands of South Carolina lay and clergy will gather virtually June 5-6 for an abbreviated 51st session of Annual Conference. By Jessica Brodie.