How can I help after Hurricane Helene through the UMCSC?

Hurricane Helene devastated many areas of South Carolina and throughout the Southeast, claiming lives and leaving many people with washed-out roads, downed trees, and no power or water for many days. If you’re able, we invite you to help The United Methodist Church respond in Christian love to those in need. Here's how.

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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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First ‘Fall Salkehatchie’ week slated for this month

Salkehatchie Summer Service is launching its first-ever “Fall Salkehatchie,” a weeklong mission experience to enable teens and adults to come together and work on the homes of people living in poverty situations right here in South Carolina. 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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Send Me! The Story of Salkehatchie Summer Service

The story of Salkehatchie Summer Service, a mission of the South Carolina Conference of the UMC, from its 1978 beginning of one camp for forty teen and adult volunteers to thirty-five camps annually and more than 63,000 volunteers since inception.

Eyes for Haiti

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

A lunchbox napkin project with the Rev. Tyler Strange's daughter has been turned into a book of 45 “napkin thoughts” to help everyone discover new ways to become better humans.

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