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By Jessica Connor. UM ministers reflect spiritual journey, sacrifice through Christian tattoos.

By Jessica Connor. The new structure for Connectional Ministries now not only has its framework, but its people in place.

By Jessica Connor. Two years ago, Wampee United Methodist Church was almost on its way out.

By Jessica Connor. If there’s one thing the members of Monaghan United Methodist Church are really, really good at, it’s food.

By Jessie Morgan. When the Rev. Brian Arant came to Liberty United Methodist Church a year ago, he heard many stories about the fun and fellowship the congregation once had on the softball field behind the church. But Arant found it hard to believe that space was once a thriving gathering place.

By Jessie Morgan. Seven years ago, Wes Conner was looking for a way to bring together a community of faith in the Sumter area and bridge the gap between Christian denominations.

By Jessica Connor. A United Methodist church and its surrounding neighbors are fighting their own version of Goliath: eight new turkey grow-out barns in their rural community.

By Jessica Connor. They remember it like it was yesterday: the flames eating away at the historic building, the cavernous hole where the sanctuary used to be, the despair in their hearts as they huddled together and watch their church burn.

By Jessica Connor. It’s said she rules the church food bank with an iron fist. “A tough girl,” her pastor calls her. But Gladys Edge’s eyes tell a different story, gleaming with emotion as she recounts the woman with cancer trying to feed seven grandkids after their mother was killed; the man with a criminal record and six mouths to feed who can’t get government help because of his shaky past; the woman with an armor of “attitude” to hide her shame and fear about having to beg for a meal. “She would’ve starved if not for Murray Church,” Edge said.

By Jessica Connor. Delegates to the 2012 General and Jurisdictional conferences have unanimously selected Dr. Tim McClendon as their episcopal nominee.

By Jessie Morgan. When a recent United Methodist Volunteers in Mission group traveled to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to do mission work, group members were forced to step outside their comfort zones while experiencing the acceptance and love of the Brazilian culture.

By Jessie Morgan. This summer, South Carolina United Methodist Churches saw Pandamania in the streets of Hometown Nazareth, and things were totally Inside Out and Upside Down. While some dined at the Shake it Up Café, others had a getaway to the Son Surf Beach Bash.

By Jessica Connor. Three S.C. pastors teach on leadership principles, passions and practices during Annual Conference.

By Jessica Connor. Sometimes you have to die to live.

By Jessica Connor. “Can you feel it? Can you sense it?” Bishop Mary Virginia Taylor asked members of Annual Conference. “Are you ready, South Carolina, for what God will do with us together?”

By Allison Trussell. Members of the 2011 Annual Conference elected nine clergy and nine laity as delegates to the 2012 General Conference during the five-day event. An additional nine clergy and nine laity were elected to join the General Conference delegates at the 2012 Jurisdictional Conference.

By Allison Trussell. Immigration reform, redistricting evaluation, AIDS and other key pieces of legislation fueled much debate during the five days of Annual Conference.

By Jessica Connor. Praising the glorious power of the Holy Spirit that came as a great wind during the first Day of Pentecost, Bishop Mary Virginia Taylor led an ordination service that commissioned and ordained 31 people as provisional or full deacons and elders in the United Methodist Church.

By Jessica Connor. Bringing a message from St. Mark United Methodist Church in Sumter “to the saints, the sinners, the whiners and the winners,” the Rev. Telley Gadson preached on what she called the audacity of faith during the Thursday night worship service at Annual Conference.