With churches shuttered amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the Advocate newspaper is taking its annual Advocate Awareness Sunday (May 17, 2020) online. Want to help? Share our video and ‘What’s the Advocate?’ blurb with your congregation.
By Jessica Brodie. This month, nearly 30 local pastors will gather by Zoom for the first-ever online version of pastoral licensing school.
Methodists, others help buy new trike for woman with cerebral palsy after hers is stolen. By the Rev. Jamie McDowell.
By the Rev. Tom Wall with Elsa Compton and Mackin Wall . As we gathered at the Brownsville, Texas, bus station, the January darkness was falling on our team from the Methodist Student Network (Wesley Foundation) at the University of South Carolina.
In a unanimous decision and for the good of public health, as well as the intense planning needed, the Salkehatchie Board of Managers has announced all 2020 Salkehatchie camps are cancelled.
A radical act of generosity will provide scholarship support for the young men and women of the five Sea Islands who yearn for a college education.
The church has been forced to cancel the concert because of the coronavirus and health concerns. They are planning to reschedule the concert, and it will be posted in the Advocate.
The coronavirus pandemic is upending life as we know it, as the death toll rises and state and local officials respond with curfews, government shutdowns, school and restaurant closures, and emergency aid. But ask any faith leader if that’s stopping church, and the answer is a resounding “no.” Across the state, churches are getting creative in how they gather. While in-person gatherings are nixed for now, phone trees, Facebook live worship services, video conference devotionals and even church radio stations are helping God’s people stay connected. By Jessica Brodie.
As the coronavirus death toll rises and the disease continues to spread worldwide, organizers of General Conference have postponed the quadrennial church gathering. As of press time, that date had not yet been determined, but organizers said they are working toward a date in 2021. By Jessica Brodie.
In the middle of the coronavirus lockdown, there’s one thing South Carolina United Methodists can do to help others without ever leaving their home: Take the 2020 Census. By Jessica Brodie.
Nearly 500 men in the Midlands used the extra day of the year to develop some extra spiritual muscle, gathering for the annual Men N Ministry spiritual retreat Feb. 29. Held at Mount Horeb United Methodist Church, the two-day event lifted up the theme “Restored” as a way to help men learn new ways to be restored and made whole in Christ. By Jessica Brodie.
Feedback from all five General Conference listening sessions is now available, and South Carolina delegates are reviewing comments and praying over them as they continue preparing for the quadrennial event. By Jessica Brodie.