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Apportionment payments continue to exceed last year’s performance, and church financial leaders are hoping to reach 90 percent for 2021. By Jessica Brodie.

State and local officials joined community leaders to open the Highland Early Learning Center on Tuesday. The new child care center, located in Spartanburg’s Highland community at The Bethlehem Center, will provide free, quality care and education to eligible children.

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.

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.