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- Final fall UMMen teaching church set for this month By Jessica Brodie. South Carolina men are riding the wave of a massive men’s ministry movement, gearing up for one more teaching church event this fall that will culminate a season of learning and fellowship.
- Hispanic/Latino neighbors vital to UMC By Jessica Brodie. There’s little I love more than looking around during worship and seeing diversity. I love it all—different accents, different shades of skin, different ages, different genders, different styles of clothing. It energizes me in a way I can hardly describe.
- Money is not the point By Bishop Jonathan Holston. The campaign for Imagine No Malaria is under way, and the stakes are high.
- Our own walk to Emmaus By the Rev. Elizabeth Murray. Have you “lost” something that was right in front of your face?
- Small church opens hearts, minds, doors for NAACP march By Jessica Brodie. A tiny United Methodist congregation on the North Carolina-South Carolina border honored “open hearts, open minds and open doors” in a big way recently, hosting a stop on a multi-state protest march organized by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
- September 2015
- Salkehatchie: A summer of service By Jessica Brodie. They sweated, they downed gallons of water in the sweltering summer heat and they worked their muscles sore. And now, weeks after the final Salkehatchie Summer Service Camp of 2015, more than 3,000 teens and adults are breathing a collective sigh of relief for a job well done.
- Children leading children: Fighting malaria SC-style By Jessica Brodie. A conference-wide initiative to eradicate malaria is being led by the very group of people it benefits—children.
- South Carolina delegation to Korea discovers unexpected kinship, similarity By Jessica Brodie. They might speak Korean instead of English, enjoy kimchi and tteok instead of fried chicken and sweet tea and listen to K-pop over American rock or hip-hop. But when you get right down to it, South Carolina and Korea have far more in common than many expect—especially when it comes to racial tension and a fervent desire for social justice and unity.
- Unconditional love: UMMen ‘Teaching Church’ in Taylors helps men love God, self, others By Jessica Brodie. TAYLORS—When Derek McGowan says there were a lot of tearful moments at the “teaching church” event at St. Mark United Methodist Church Aug. 15, he’s not exaggerating.