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- Let us pray By Bishop L. Jonathan Holston. Prayer focuses us to listen attentively for God to speak. As Mary wrestled with what it meant for her to bear the Son of God, so must we wrestle with what it means to carry the good news of God’s son into today’s world.
- November 2017
- Hulapalooza! Bishop Holston challenges UMC to get moving By Jessica Brodie. Armed with a hula hoop and a commitment to fitness, South Carolina’s bishop is calling on United Methodists across the nation to join him in the denomination’s Abundant Health Initiative. To kick off Hulapalooza, Holston and the other South Carolina United Methodist leaders donned hoops and showed off their skills in a video. Now, they are encouraging United Methodist churches and individuals to join them and make their own hula-hooping (or other fitness) video, then mark it with the hashtag #getmovingumcsc and post it on social media.
- UMCSC poised to hit 94 percent apportionments goal By Jessica Brodie. As it looks now, the South Carolina Conference is poised to reach its financial goal for 2017 and then some.
- Side by side, couple in 80s crafts quilts for children in need By Jessica Brodie. One elderly United Methodist couple is using their golden years to give back and do rather than sit back and receive. Ken and Joanne Lehman, longtime members of Ebenezer UMC, are in their 80s and are experiencing health difficulties. But over the past 15 years, they have pushed those cares aside and made nearly 1,600 quilts for children in need at Greenville’s A Child’s Haven.
- Eight-sided wonder: McBee Chapel UMC By Jessica Brodie. On a lightly traveled street in Upstate South Carolina sits a historical gem that just happens to be one of three octagonal-shaped churches in the nation: McBee Chapel United Methodist Church. McBee is tiny, with maybe 15 or 20 still attending the 176-year-old former mill church. But it is doing its best to revitalize, and its new pastor is hoping it will soon have a reputation as much for its commitment to ministry as for its unique shape and history.
- ERTs continue response after hurricanes
- Pick your plan: After fall of insurance education, covered clergy and laity must choose by Nov. 16
- Gospel brought to life onstage through couple’s weekly live theater performance By Jessica Brodie. One couple is sharing the word of God with the world every Friday and Saturday night through a free first-rate live theater performance, and it’s changing hearts and lives for Christ.
- Orangeburg’s Imagine a Miracle Music Fest nets $11K+ for malaria relief By Jessica Brodie. United Methodists across the Orangeburg District this fall combined their musical talents with a passion for connectionalism in a festival that raised more than $11,000 for Imagine No Malaria. The district presented its Imagine A Miracle Music Festival Sept. 24 at St. Mark United Methodist Church, North, with a lineup of 10 musical acts ranging from bluegrass to Gospel to country western and more.