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- Million Book Effort ramps up as June target approaches By Jessica Connor. When Henry Hughes, 6, first learned his church was tasked to buy new books for kids, he didn t bat an eyelash. The kindergartner pulled out a Barnes & Noble gift card he had just received for his birthday and, in addition to getting two books for himself, bought two books for a child in need.
- Rick's House: Aldersgate home a dream come true By Jessica Connor. It's the kind of place Rick DeBerry would have wanted to live: four bedrooms, private bathrooms, a nice screened porch and a good backyard. It's a place where he and other men with special needs could live on their own, without parents, but close enough for visits. DeBerry passed away when he was 30. But now, thanks to a partnership among his mother Kathleen Baskin, Methodist Manor and Aldersgate Special Needs Ministry, DeBerry s memory lives on through the creation of Rick s House, the third Aldersgate home to be built in South Carolina.
- Gun violence resolution goes before AC2014 By Jessica Connor. United Methodist nonviolence advocates have drafted a resolution on gun violence to go before the thousands of the denomination's clergy and laity June 1-4 during Annual Conference in Florence.
- The man who waves By Jessica Connor ~ I pass him every day coming home from work. There, on the Columbia bus bench, right across from the high school, he sits and he waves.
- Who could ask for anything more? By Bishop Holston. Most days I seem to get bogged down in the busyness and irritations of life. Often I am reminded of the quote that says, "Make sure that we never get too busy with life that we don't have time to live." Yet it is so easy to waste time fretting over things that are not important.
- Sole Hope Shoe Cutting Party at First Easley By Mei Au. I stare at the rows of shoes in my closet. In this country, shoes are far more about fashion than function. In other parts of the world such as Africa, shoes can save lives.
- March 2014
- One million books for kids By Jessica Connor. S.C. United Methodist leaders have a top-shelf goal for this year s Annual Conference: collect one million books for children as a way to combat illiteracy and its twin sister, poverty.
- AC2014: Creating corridors of faith, hope, love By Jessica Connor. In three months, thousands of United Methodists will converge on the Florence Civic Center for Annual Conference 2014, where they will pray, worship, do business and vote on key legislation impacting the denomination in this state.
- The comeback church: Herbert Memorial UMC back in the game after $250K theft By Jessica Connor. A little more than two years ago, Herbert Memorial United Methodist Church was hit with one of the worst things they could imagine. They were missing money—nearly a quarter-million dollars simply gone.