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Help After Helene: The Latest in the UMCSC

South Carolina continues to pick up the pieces after Hurricane Helene ravaged the region Sept. 26-27. In the aftermath of the disaster, United Methodists churches and individuals have been working hard to help others, as well as to get any help they need. Here’s what we know right now. By Jessica Brodie.

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Help After Helene: The Latest in the UMCSC

South Carolina continues to pick up the pieces after Hurricane Helene ravaged the region Sept. 26-27. In the aftermath of the disaster, United Methodists churches and individuals have been working hard to help others, as well as to get any help they need. Here’s what we know right now. By Jessica Brodie.

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From tragedy, opportunity

Dementia care advocates teach churches how to offer love, grace in midst of difficult diagnosis. (Pictured: The Inabinets, courtesy South Carolina Cognitive Connection Ministry.) By Jessica Brodie.

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Stop looking back

If we keep looking back, keep lamenting, keep holding onto anger or sadness or worry or whatever else it is that keeps our minds on yesterday, we’re doing a disservice to the Lord. By Jessica Brodie

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Like an unopened present

Instead of choosing to see uncertainty through a lens of fear, what if we were to choose to see that uncertainty a bit like an unopened gift on Christmas morning? By Jessica Brodie.

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The story of the Eye Clinic at the Methodist Project at Gebeau in Jérémie, Haiti, as told by ophthalmologist Dr. Hal H. Crosswell Jr.

What I Want My Kids (and Me) to Know

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