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- Trenholm Road pastor, congregation humbled by experience as flood-relief conduit
- Clergy covenant group mucks out flood-damaged parsonage By Jessica Brodie. A team of clergy in covenant to challenge both body and spirit put the two together recently and spent two days mucking out the flood-ravaged home of a fellow pastor in need.
- S.C. ERT responds to ‘1,000-year’ South Carolina flood By Billy Robinson. On Friday morning, Oct. 2, as rain began, I was still filling sandbags and placing them at every door around my home in North, as only two years prior our home flooded from what they called a “100-year flood” for our area. Since then, the Department of Transportation had cleaned out some main drainage pipes that were halfway filled with dirt and roots. We hoped that would help immensely, but with the dreaded forecast for unprecedented flooding all across South Carolina, I continued to sandbag my home.
- UMCSC disaster coordinators tapped to lead VOAD task forces By Jessica Brodie. Two United Methodist disaster response coordinators have been tapped to chair task forces for the South Carolina Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster group. The Rev. Gregg Varner, South Carolina Conference disaster response coordinator, will chair South Carolina VOAD’s Rebuild and Repair Task Force, and the Rev. George Olive, disaster response coordinator for the Marion District, who chair the Case Management Task Force.
- Christ Jesus, we need you By Jessica Brodie, Advocate editor. We go to press on the December paper just before Thanksgiving and the start of Advent—a time when we’re supposed to be having thoughts of peace and gratitude, love and kindness. Instead, on Facebook and in news headlines, we’re bombarded with stories of terrorist attacks in Paris and in Mali. Talk has turned to how we can stand strong against the threat of ISIS and whether or not we should let Syrian refugees into our nation. It’s hard sometimes to cultivate so-called Christmas cheer and the quiet peace of Advent when all around us is the clamor of negativity, worry and, sadly, hate.
- A promise that changes the world By Bishop Jonathan Holston. Over the years we have developed a bad habit. Our problem is that we have become so familiar with the Christmas story that we no longer even stop to consider what it really means.
- Who cares? Death and life on the U.S.-Mexico border By the Rev. Keith D. Ray II. The border between the United States and Mexico is a place where bodies are often lost. Each year hundreds of migrants fleeing violence, economic despair, gang activity and the like perish as they seek to find a better life in the United States.
- A tale of two churches (a Christmas story) By Connie Davis Rouse. This is not your average Christmas story. It starts out as nightmarish as the floods Noah predicted, just without the admonishments and animals. The torrential waters came in almost biblical proportions without warning in a matter of hours. The church was empty and, thanks be to God, no lives were lost.
- November 2015
- Faith through the flood By Jessica Brodie. Weeks after a storm so catastrophic South Carolina’s governor called it a “1,000-year flood,” South Carolina United Methodist disaster responders are transitioning from a rescue phase to a relief and recovery phase.