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By Jessica Brodie. Six weeks from now, thousands of United Methodists will head to Florence for the denomination’s Annual Conference, and organizers are doing all they can to help delegates be ready, aware and fully educated.

By Jessica Brodie. United Methodists are heading to South Carolina State University this month for a two-day racial reconciliation pilgrimage centered on the 1968 police shooting of unarmed black students during a segregation protest. Set for May 15-16 on the campus in Orangeburg, the pilgrimage comes just weeks after a North Charleston police shooting left an unarmed man dead.

The Advocate has won three awards from the international, interfaith Religion Communicators Council in their annual DeRose-Hinkhouse Memorial Awards.

By Jessica Brodie. This June, Annual Conference members will vote whether to ask The United Methodist Church to withdraw two of its agencies from the Religious Coalition For Reproductive Choice. The RCRC is a national community of religious organizations and individuals dedicated to achieving reproductive justice through education, organizing and advocacy; coalition members include the UMC’s General Board of Church and Society and the United Methodist Women.

By Jessica Brodie. How much do South Carolina United Methodists care about children? If organizers have their way, the new 1 Million Hours of Service initiative will show they care a million times over.

By Jessica Brodie. As news spread about a resolution at Annual Conference on whether the church should remove language from the United Methodist Book of Discipline about homosexuality being incompatible with Christian teaching, Advocate readers began to react strongly—both for and against the change.

By Jessica Brodie. The South Carolina Conference’s youth singing ministry is heading in a new direction. In an effort to reach more youth singers and even possibly branch into instrumental, dance and visual arts, the Spirit Singers choir will shift from its current model into a new all-encompassing creative vision under direction by a conference design team.

By Allison Trussell. United Methodist men are running toward ministry in South Carolina, and many took the first step April 11. More than 100 men gathered at Rehoboth United Methodist Church for the Bishop’s 100 Mighty Men of Faith and were challenged by Bishop Jonathan Holston and the Rev. Kathy James, director of Connectional Ministries.

By Jessica Brodie. Some of South Carolina’s United Methodist-associated ministries will have the opportunity to participate in regional “days of giving” May 5, and they are hoping Methodists across the state will step up and help them get the funds they need.

By Jessica Brodie. When it comes to people needing something in the Anderson District—whether it’s a new porch for a disabled church member or a fallen tree after a snowstorm—one thing is certain. You’re going to get the help you need.