By Jessica Brodie. What started as a restoration project has become a full-scale catalyst for one United Methodist church in South Carolina, St. John’s UMC, helping members honor their history while invigorating their future.
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By Jessica Brodie. One South Carolina United Methodist pastor, the Rev. Judy Hames, headed to Uganda this summer to spend a week mentoring new believers in Christ. Hames went as part of International Missionaries For Christ, a non-denominational mission organization that sends out these new believers as serious transformers of the world for Christ in the ways of Methodism’s founder, John Wesley. “It has to have been one of the highlights of my life,” said Hames.
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By Laura Camby McCaskill. In 2012, two police officers were killed in the line of duty in Aiken County within six weeks of each other. This brought the community together to find out why—and led to the creation of an organization, Megiddo Dream Station, that helps alleviate issues of poverty and unemployment.
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By Jessica Brodie. Deacons and lay employees outside the conference office will see an increase in their premium costs for insurance in 2019. That’s the word from the Rev. Christopher Lollis, director of the South Carolina Conference Pensions and Benefits Office.
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By Jessica Brodie. This month, The United Methodist Church’s top court is expected to review the final report of the Commission on a Way Forward and rule on whether the proposed legislation for General Conference 2019, including petitions, is constitutional. That court, the Judicial Council, will gather Oct. 23-26 in Zurich. The matter is on the court’s docket along with other items.
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Bishop Sharma D. Lewis, resident bishop of the Richmond episcopal area, will serve as keynote speaker for the South Carolina Conference’s Summit on the Black Church: Real Talk for the Black Church.
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Move over, sophomores. At 499 strong, the freshman class at Spartanburg Methodist College just took the record for the largest group of new first-time college students since SMC’s founding in 1911.
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In 2016, Trinity United Methodist Church raised money to “dig” six wells in Peru, Ghana, India (two) and Thailand (two). In 2018, Trinity again decided to dig some wells and this time raised enough money for 11 wells.
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By Jane Agan. As one church in South Carolina hurries to finish its organ restoration, another is just beginning. Main Street United Methodist Church began an organ campaign Aug. 26. Called “Keep the Music Flowing: A Campaign to Replace and Restore the Organ,” this campaign is eight weeks of spiritual renewal as well as funding a new organ.
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By Jessica Brodie. What to do? How to proceed? Which way to turn? Sometimes, I wish I had a giant God Spotlight to answer those questions.
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By Bishop L. Jonathan Holston. South Carolina once again is feeling the brunt of a powerful hurricane that has caused widespread property damage across our state. While many South Carolinians have had their lives disrupted, there is tremendous evidence of God’s faithfulness in our midst. We recognize that these are trying times that are overwhelming and often lead us to believe there is nothing we can do to help.
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By Jessica Brodie. A medical mission and clinic built from the ground up in northwestern Guatemala has been officially dedicated to the work of the Lord.
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By Jessica Brodie. In his time on earth, Jesus ministered not only to the sick and the sinful, but also to those tormented by mental calamities. Now, as mental illness, substance use disorders and suicide are on the rise, some churches in South Carolina are stepping up to learn how they, too, can be the hands and feet of Jesus to people in need.
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By Jessica Brodie. A disabled woman living alone now has a new roof on her home three years after the flood of 2015 blew away her shingles. More volunteers are desperately needed.
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By Laura Camby McCaskill. One South Carolina church has taken scrap metal no one wants to bring water to people in need: Calvary United Methodist Church. The Living Water Project recycles scrap metal from the community and uses the proceeds to provide water to a Navajo Indian reservation in Baca, New Mexico, through an organization called Dig Deep.
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By Jessica Brodie. There’s a place in the Midlands that has been offering hope and healing for countless seeking therapy, counseling and crisis support: Mount Hebron Counseling Service.
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By Jessica Brodie. As fall approaches, United Methodists in South Carolina grow ever mindful of the February 2019 Special Session of General Conference called by the denomination’s Council of Bishops. Here’s an update.
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By Jessica Brodie. Five years after Freedom School first came to the Midlands, the first crop of students is aging out, and they have much to say about the way the literacy program has changed them for the better.
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Summit on the Black Church: Real Talk for the Black Church will be held in the Lowcountry next month.
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By Jessica Brodie. Mental illness runs in my family. Like some families have a genetic predisposition to diabetes, cancer, high blood pressure or high cholesterol, my family members sometimes struggle with chemical imbalances in the brain.
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