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- Mission to Thailand now a reality By Jessica Connor. Suddenly, all the plans are falling into place courtesy of the Almighty: the Attaway family is headed to Thailand.
- S.C. UMCs help hungry kids through weekend backpack food programs By Caitlin Russell. As children prepare to go back to school this month, United Methodist churches across South Carolina are gearing up to provide weekend backpack food ministries.
- Advance Special Ministries: What are they and how are they funded? By Jessica Connor. Throughout South Carolina exist 14 standalone ministries whose work is connected with the mission and vision of the S.C. Conference of The United Methodist Church.
- Looking left and right By Bishop Jonathan Holston. The college orientation session for our daughter was a mixture of awe, excitement and reality.
- Moving forward together By Jessica Connor. One case does not a nation make. And as we move forward in the weeks following the acquittal of neighborhood watch coordinator George Zimmerman in the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, we would do well to remember that.
- July 2013
- AC 2013: Serving, living, giving By Jessica Connor. Blending good-natured wisecracks and uplifting spiritual moments with a full slate of conference business and hunger mission, more than 3,000 S.C. United Methodists gathered June 9-12 for the denomination's yearly meeting in this state—Annual Conference.
- A 4:12 Story By Jessica Connor. What do you get when you mix a top college quarterback, a Rhodes Scholar, a 13-year-old hunger advocate, a leading Christian rock band and thousands of Spirit-filled youth and adult worshippers? You get God-sized worship at Annual Conference.
- AC2013 passes resolutions on education, poverty, Medicaid expansion, mother-child health By Jessica Connor. South Carolina United Methodists said yes to five resolutions dealing with poverty, Medicaid expansion, education and more, but no to a resolution prohibiting guns at church-sponsored events.
- 'Don't let age stop you': Conference commissions woman, 70, as oldest pastor to-date By Jessica Connor. Myrna Kay Westfall, 70, would never have imagined 10 years ago that she would be pastoring two small churches in the Hartsville District of the S.C. Conference. But on June 10, the great-grandmother became the oldest person this conference has ever commissioned as a pastor. Westfall was commissioned an associate member during ordination service at Annual Conference, joining 34 other associate members, deacons, provisional elders and elders commissioned or ordained before the body.