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- October 2012
- Tithing online: UMCs offering bank drafts, credit card payments to help members give By Jessica Connor. The collection plate isn’t going anywhere (at least for now), but more and more United Methodist churches in South Carolina are providing a way for their members to tithe online.
- Judicial Council to rule on new structure By Jessica Connor. The United Methodist Church’s top court will rule this month whether South Carolina’s new Connectional Ministries structure complies with church law.
- ARCH Ministries: Afterschool program at Arcadia UMC makes a difference at foundational level By Jessica Connor. SPARTANBURG – It’s a sunny, breezy afternoon in northwest Spartanburg, and the happy shouts of children playing outside fill the air. Laughter swirls as delighted shrieks and claps bring smiles to the faces of the handful of adults who watch them.
- Spirituality and healing: UM physician turns focus to mind-body-medicine and spirituality link By Jessica Connor. John Simmons, M.D., will never forget the time he and a group of physicians were in a hospital room, crowded around a woman’s bed, talking over her head about what ailed her and how to proceed. When it came time for him to voice his medical opinion, the lifelong United Methodist did something a little unorthodox. He sat down on her bed, reached out and took her hand (which had been restlessly fidgeting the whole time the doctors were there), and looked into her eyes.
- Building bonds, bridges theme of Summit on the Black Church 2012 Three leaders in ethnic church concerns will join new S.C. Conference Resident Bishop Jonathan Holston in the conference’s Summit on the Black Church this month.
- Stir the flame: UMW to hold 40th annual meeting this month United Methodist Women from every district in South Carolina will head to St. John’s United Methodist Church, Rock Hill, this month for their 40th annual meeting.
- Decisions, decisions By Jessica Connor. “Mom, look – chocolate cereal!” Cameron said, eyes bright in his 6-year-old face. “Oooooooh, Dora cereal!” 4-year-old Avery exclaimed. “Ooh, and strawberries!”
- September 2012
- 'The church is the people': Aug. 1 fire destroys Shiloh UMC's building, not its spirit By Jessica Connor. Three weeks after the blaze that gutted Shiloh United Methodist Church, the scent of charred timber and brick still lingers.