What happens when a church and a hospital decide they need to create awareness about critical ongoing health issues claiming countless in their community? They create a powerful new video series together that is designed to advance conversations around health equity. By Jessica Brodie.
After more than a year and a half of a COVID-19-induced disruption, leaders in South Carolina men’s ministry are urging their local groups to embrace a season of reset so they can begin anew. (Q&A with district presidents also included!) By Jessica Brodie.
Apportionment payments are returning to normal, conference financial leaders say, bringing them some relief after a year filled with uncertainties regarding the pandemic and its continued impact on churches and giving. As of Oct. 20, the South Carolina Conference Treasurer’s Office has received approximately $11.1 million of the $17.3 million total budgeted for 2021, or about 64.34%. By Jessica Brodie.
South Carolina’s James H. Salley has been named president and chief executive officer of Africa University (Tennessee) Inc.
Three books of interest to United Methodists are planned for release this November, and two more are on their heels in early December. They include “Faith in Action: Stories of Salkehatchie Summer Service,” compiled by the Rev. John Wesley Culp Jr.; “What I Have Come to Believe,” a spiritual reflection by the Rev. Arthur H. Holt, and “Walk with Me: Your Spiritual Esteem Journey,” by the Rev. Cathy Joens and Toni Taylor.
On Oct. 2, a team of eight ERTs with two trucks and one ERT trailer headed from New Beginnings UMC, Boiling Springs, to Metairie, Louisiana, to help after Hurricane Ida. By Chuck Marshall.
The Methodist Student Network (Wesley Foundation) at University of South Carolina spent their October fall break mucking and cleaning out a fire station that had four feet of water and disabled the building.
A retired South Carolina United Methodist pastor and longtime champion of equity and justice issues, Marvin Ira Lare, has just released a five-volume anthology of more than 100 civil rights leaders telling their stories.
The Discipleship Ministry Area of the Conference Connectional Ministries has published four sermon series under its brand “Come Follow Me.” The newest volume, four, is titled “Disciples Love and Care for Others.”
Mangled metal. Newly homeless families. Widespread power and water outages. And in the aftermath, South Carolina stepped up to help. By Billy Robinson and Jessica Brodie.
Tired of the pandemic keeping them isolated, one faith-centered group decided to organize a giving spree that would not only help share the love of Christ, but also connect them with each other. This summer, Reconciling Ministries of South Carolina mobilized its membership across the state through a virtual fundraiser to benefit Aldersgate Special Needs Ministry. By Jessica Brodie.
Some participated from home, and some from a conference room a short walk from the beach. But at the end of their set-apart time at the Carolinas Black Clergy Leadership Retreat, attendees came away filled with new ideas for ministry in a world vastly changed by a pandemic. By Jessica Brodie.