In light of the ongoing racial justice issues in this state, nation and world, the Advocate Press has released a part two of its popular racial narratives anthology, “More Stories of Racial Awakening: Narratives of Changed Hearts and Lives from South Carolina United Methodists.” The book includes a foreword written by South Carolina United Methodist Resident Bishop L. Jonathan Holston, and it is edited with an introduction by Advocate Editor Jessica Brodie.

Before you dismiss St. John UMC, Greenville, as a dying congregation, they want you to know what God has doing for the last 18 months—working a miracle in their midst.

What does a fisherman pastor do when he finds himself pastoring a small urban church in a poverty-stricken community? He heads out in a boat, catches a bunch of fish and holds a free community fish fry. By Jessica Brodie.

For the last six years, Piedmont has been operating a thriving summer feeding program on-site, its members trying to help the surrounding community in the name of Jesus. By Jessica Brodie.

By Jessica Brodie. Two college students in Charleston have been heavily involved with their congregation since their youth group days, and since the pandemic, they’ve turned that help into a technological ministry that brings worship right into people’s homes.

This fall, Columbia College welcomes new students to campus; but it will be far from business-as-usual for the former women’s college. The 167-year-old institution is welcoming its first male residential students.

Hundreds of golfers from South Carolina and across the nation are preparing to converge on the Orangeburg Country Club Sept. 27 for the eighth annual Bishop L. Jonathan Holston Golf Invitational benefiting Africa University. Th tournament honors the late Rev. John Hipp and raises funds for the university.

This spring, Francis Burns United Methodist Women took on a project to make reusable sanitary pads to be distributed to women and girls across the continent of Africa. By Carrie R. Murray.

Pleasant Hill United Methodist Church held a service of consecration for its new $2.6 million Family Life Center on June 27.

In an effort to expand its publishing reach to a wider audience, the Advocate Press has launched two of its books on Amazon.

The sale of the Methodist Oaks retirement community to a private company has been finalized (courtesy of The Times & Democrat).

The Wofford College community spent nine months participating in a process that involved reviewing and reflecting on the college’s past, present and future. A 16-member task force consisting of students, faculty, staff and trustees led the college’s justice, equity, diversity and inclusion—or JEDI—process and made 30 recommendations to the board of trustees after the 2020-2021 academic year.