By Jessica Brodie. United Methodists from around the world will gather for a special called session of General Conference in 2019 to address issues surrounding the church divide over human sexuality. Sixteen South Carolina delegates will represent this annual conference at the special session, set for Feb. 23-26, 2019, in St. Louis, Missouri.
By Jessica Brodie. One resolution included in pre-conference materials is calling for South Carolina to disaffiliate from the denomination.
By Jessica Brodie. There’s a place in Anderson where all the broken can come to find solace and love. There, in a once-closed church that itself now has new life in Christ, they stand together in worship—the homeless alongside those with plenty, the recovering drug addicts alongside those struggling to overcome a need for excess and greed, the mentally ill alongside the spiritually ill. All of them clasping hands, bowed in prayer. All of them one in Christ. This is the South Main Chapel and Mercy Center.
By Jessica Brodie. The United Methodist Church’s top court has ruled that the consecration of a gay bishop violates church law, and South Carolina United Methodists have some definite thoughts on that and the future of the denomination.
By Allison Trussell. For the past 180 years, the South Carolina United Methodist Advocate has informed, comforted and challenged its readers as it served as “an instrument of the church on behalf of the Gospel of Jesus Christ” (Rev. McKay Brabham, editor, 1961-1971). This month, the Advocate celebrates that milestone.
By Jessica Brodie. One congregation’s efforts at bridge-building have not only helped it reach out to its neighbors but also earned it the annual conference’s 2017 Barbara Boultinghouse Bridge Builders Award.
Churches in the South Carolina Conference are being invited to celebrate their connection to Africa University with special events and offerings to mark the institution’s 25th anniversary. For Bishop Jonathan Holston, the desire to celebrate is natural for South Carolina United Methodists because of their history and unique relationship with Africa University.
The 180-year-old South Carolina United Methodist Advocate newspaper will celebrate Advocate Awareness Day May 21, 2017, and a variety of resources (speakers, bulletin inserts, subscription envelopes, more) are available for churches.
A year and a half after floodwaters left her house a mess of mold and ruined wood, Annie Taylor can finally go home. And today, she’s praising God for sending team after team of United Methodist volunteers to her rescue. By Jessica Brodie.
When 20 United Methodists from the Greenwood District returned from helping with the conference’s hurricane relief blitz in Sellers this January, they couldn’t get one man off their mind—Allen James. And so they did what anyone with a heart for Christ would do: they helped him. By Jessica Brodie.
By Jessica Brodie. This June, Annual Conference members will consider six resolutions, each rooted in solidarity or in healing. The six received in time for inclusion in pre-conference materials deal with everything from lynching, immigration and opposing a Muslim ban to issues facing LGBTQ youth.
The Advocate won 10 more journalism awards this spring: four from the United Methodist Association of Communicators and six from the interfaith Religion Communicators Council.