Three years from its 75th anniversary, a United Methodist home for women in crisis is casting what it calls a “new vision net” as it prepares to seek a new executive director and a new perspective on current issues facing its female clientele. By Jessica Brodie.
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Delegates and other church leaders are in the final stretch as they prepare this month to head to the special called session of General Conference to help the denomination move beyond its impasse on human sexuality. The special session is slated for Feb. 23-2 in St. Louis. There, 16 delegates from South Carolina will join the 864 total men and women who are delegates from each conference in the UMC. Here’s what you need to know and how you can pray.
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One program in rural South Carolina is broadening teens’ sense of self-purpose and helping to reduce teen pregnancy. In 2009, lifelong United Methodist Marian David spearheaded a mission of creating Tea Time with Teens, a program in the Bennettsville-Cheraw area that not only helps establish a solid foundation for teens, but also teaches them about their self-worth.
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One Upstate church is hoping to heed Jesus’s call to visit people in prison through weekly, intentional and specific prayer during the season of Lent, and its pastor is urging other churches across the UMC to join them. Through a project called “Visit Prison with Your Prayers,” St. Mark United Methodist Church, Seneca, plans to pray each week for a number of prisoners living in South Carolina correctional facilities.
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Numbers are in, and for the fourth year running, South Carolina United Methodists have paid more than 90 percent in apportionments.
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What started as a way to help women who had been sexually assaulted find relief and solace within a church setting has now become something more. By offering the use of their facility, St. Mark United Methodist Church has been helping the community by housing a Trauma Relief Clinic, run for the past two years by Pamila Lorentz.
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For the United Methodist Men of South Carolina, the annual men’s spiritual retreat has a new look. This year’s event will take place at Mount Horeb United Methodist Church, Lexington, Feb. 16, 2019.
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Tim Whitten started Jan. 14 as disaster recovery director to handle Hurricane Florence-related efforts in the South Carolina Conference of the United Methodist Church.
Read MoreBethesda United Methodist Church will host a daylong mental health conference Saturday, March 30, 2019, called “There Is No Health Without Mental Health: The Role of the Church in Addressing Mental Illness.”
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Older adults at Silver Hill Memorial United Methodist Church donated Backpacks for the Homeless during Advent as a way to show love to the needy during the holidays.
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The time has come to nominate outstanding clergy and laity in the South Carolina Conference of The United Methodist Church for five awards to be presented at the 2019 Annual Conference in June, as well as an annual award for scouting units at UMC churches.
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In response to interest in the program from additional churches, FAN will offer more trainings this spring.
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Lake Junaluska is hosting a Christian-based marriage retreat to help partners better understand each other and learn to cultivate a warmer, more joyful and loving relationship. Dates for this year are March 10-12, Aug. 18-20 and Sept. 29-Oct. 1.
Read MoreEpworth Children’s Home has been awarded Charity Navigator’s four-star rating for the sixth year in a row.
Read MoreThe Fellowship of South Carolina Bishops, which includes South Carolina’s United Methodist Resident Bishop L. Jonathan Holston, will hold a listening post in Allendale Feb. 11, 2019, based on the bishops’ Public Education Initiative.
Read MoreEditor Jessica Brodie on being alive in Christ and how in accepting Jesus as our savior we have the freedom to let all the unworthy aspects of ourselves go—fully and completely.
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Bishop Jonathan Holston on how men’s ministry is not only about the opportunity we have to disciple men and their families in their faith journey, but it is also about empowering men and women to return to their communities ready to continue the witness of faith locally and beyond.
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By Jessica Brodie. As the countdown continues for the special called session of General Conference, South Carolina’s resident bishop is calling on United Methodists to join him in daily, focused prayer that the church continue doing God’s work in the world.
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By Jessica Brodie. United Methodists in the Midlands are reaching out in Christian love to a group of men struggling with severe mental illness. Through a ministry called “Love the Unloved,” members of Mount Horeb United Methodist Church and others in the community are supporting a residential home for mentally ill adult men.
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By Jessica Brodie. Anyone interested in being a delegate to the 2020 General and Southeastern Jurisdictional conferences has to act fast. Lay (non-clergy) potential delegates have until Jan. 10 to submit their nomination form to their district superintendent, and clergy potential delegates have until Feb. 1 to submit theirs to the conference secretary.
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