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- Last call for the Bishop’s Road Show By Jessica Brodie. S.C. lay leaders and lay servants are gearing up for the final two stops in the 12-district Bishop’s Road Show this month. S.C. Resident Bishop Jonathan Holston will head to the Anderson District Feb. 7 and the Spartanburg District Feb. 28 to meet one-on-one with lay servants and lay leaders, sharing wisdom on how to build healthy teams and churches.
- Stepping up to the challenge By Jessica Brodie. In what the Rev. Michael Turner calls “an overwhelming but wonderful” response to a church-wide challenge, Advent United Methodist Church raised $265,000 for the homeless this Christmas.
- Seasonal wreath workshops become major fellowship event for Grace The women of Grace United Methodist Church have discovered a new way to fellowship: making seasonal wreaths.
- Simplify: My Lenten challenge By Jessica Brodie. Lately, I’ve been struggling with an overwhelming urge to simplify my life. Clutter, which has always bothered me, now seems downright wrong.
- What the world needs now By Bishop Jonathan Holston. Some years ago, Dionne Warwick recorded a popular song written by Hal David and Bert Bacharach, which stated these simple words; namely, “What the world needs now is love, sweet love, it’s the only thing that there’s just too little of.”
- A commitment to welcoming the immigrant By the Rev. Elizabeth Murray. On Sunday, Feb. 8, I had the opportunity to attend a Latino LARCUM prayer service at St. David’s Lutheran Church in West Columbia.
- Discomfort leads to good ministry By the Rev. Elizabeth Murray. Have you ever been in a space where you were not familiar with the traditions, customs, or language? What were the emotions you felt—anxious, stressed, uncomfortable?
- You are dust By the Rev. Elizabeth Murray. Christmas is over and we are in the season of Epiphany, but Ash Wednesday will soon be upon us.
- January 2015
- Education for children By Jessica Brodie. This month, children’s advocates are calling on United Methodists to step up and be a voice for quality education in South Carolina via their legislators.