Aldersgate Special Needs Ministry is starting a drop-in style respite program for adults with developmental disabilities.
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Grace UMC reaches out to Sweetwater community with The Way
Grace United Methodist Church is working with the Greenwood District and the South Carolina Conference in creating The Way as a satellite location for Grace UMC.
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S.C.’s Bishop Holston elected as next secretary of UMC Council of Bishops
Bishop L. Jonathan Holston of the South Carolina Conference was elected Nov. 3 as the next secretary of the Council of Bishops of The United Methodist Church during the bishops’ online meeting via Zoom. Bishop Thomas Bickerton, the residential bishop of the New York Conference of The United Methodist Church, was elected as the next COB president, Bishop Tracy Smith Malone of the East Ohio Conference was elected the COB’s next president-designate.
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Bishop Jonathan Holston. Photo by Matt Brodie.
History restored
On a bright, cool day, descendants of Samuel Burdine joined with members of the Pickens County Historical Society, Hagood Mill Foundation and the South Carolina Methodist Conference Historical Society to dedicate and bless the Burdine Lodge Nov. 13. The one-room log cabin, built in the Dacusville Community by Burdine in 1796, is documented three times—1800, 1802 and 1803—in the journals of Francis Asbury as his lodging place when he traveled through the Saluda Grade into South Carolina. By Allison Trussell.
The lesson of waiting
Waiting usually isn’t comfortable. But looking back, I realize my deepest lessons have come during the waiting. By Jessica Brodie.
