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• A game-changing youth Revolution February 20, 2015 By Jessica Brodie. More than 2,000 youth from across the state. Hundreds of new commitments to Christ. Major outpouring of volunteer hours. Dozens considering a call to ministry. In other words, organizers will tell you, Revolution 2015 was a “huge win,” a game-changer on so many levels.
• Shooting some hoops: Annual UMC youth basketball tourney February 20, 2015 By Jessica Brodie. When hundreds of United Methodist teens gathered last month for the annual S.C. Conference Youth Basketball Tournament, the experience was a little bittersweet. It was a time of fellowship and fun, of good-natured Christian competition while playing a game they love. But it was also...
• Big plans February 20, 2015 By Jessica Brodie. My husband once told me he had big plans for me. He told me this when we were first dating, and his words naturally made my heart go pitter-patter and I began to dream of all sorts of wonderful future romantic what-ifs. God also has big plans for us, as he says in Jeremiah 29:11...
• Keeping a holy Lent February 20, 2015 By Bishop Jonathan Holston. It was in 1896 that Professor George Washington Carver received a letter from Dr. Booker T. Washington. It was a plea for help from the president of one institution of higher learning, Tuskegee Institute, to a well-known professor of agriculture at another institution, Iowa State College.
• One thousand men strong February 17, 2015 By Jessica Brodie. Men’s ministry leaders are gearing up this month for the largest men’s spiritual retreat South Carolina has ever seen.
• Computers for Ghana February 6, 2015 By Jessica Brodie. Churches in one of South Carolina’s most rural areas are coming together to help rural brothers and sisters a world away. The Orangeburg District of The United Methodist Church is partnering with The Methodist Church of Ghana to build a technology center and library in the remote village of Abesewa, Ghana, which is in the Ashanti Region of the northwestern African nation.
• Family Promise February 6, 2015 By Jessica Brodie. UMCs, other churches help homeless families stay together as latest affiliate opens in Midlands.
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• Almost 90%—again January 26, 2015 By Jessica Brodie. Final numbers are in, and S.C. United Methodist churches paid 89.45 percent of their apportionments for 2014—almost a mirror of what they paid last year, 89.72 percent.
• SEJ bishops, lay leaders dialogue about transformational leadership in UMC January 26, 2015