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Barney Blakeney reflects on his experience when the United Methodist Men groups at Old Bethel and Wesley in Charleston brought together men from various congregations in the Charleston area to talk about issues pertinent to black men.

By Billy Robinson. For two months, more than 160 volunteers worked about 3,800 hours providing Christian love in action to survivors of Hurricanes Florence and Michael, many of these survivors in dire need of help. Hurricane Florence made landfall Sept. 14 near Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, then moved inland toward South Carolina, and Hurricane Michael swept up from the Gulf Coast and impacted South Carolina as a tropical storm Oct. 11. While the storms themselves caused problems, flooding in the aftermath was far worse. Now, volunteers’ early response work is largely ending as the South Carolina Conference of The United Methodist Church shifts into recovery mode.

By Jessica Brodie. In less than three months, 864 United Methodists from across the world who are delegates from each annual conference in the denomination will gather in one place with one purpose: helping the global church move beyond its debilitating disagreement over human sexuality. Here’s the latest news.

By Jessica Brodie. This Advent, United Methodist prison chaplains are embarking on a new faith journey with inmates designed to wrap pastors and churches in prayer. The Rev. Traci Bennett, clinical chaplain supervisor at Tyger River Correctional Institution, and the Rev. Edward McKnight, senior chaplain at Lee Correctional Institution, are two of several prison ministry advocates across South Carolina taking part in Give the Gift of Prayer, a Christmas-themed prayer vigil. With the vigil, Christian prisoners will be praying daily from the beginning of Advent through Epiphany for the pastors and churches of the South Carolina Conference of The United Methodist Church.

By Jessica Brodie. As 2018 edges to a close, churches across the conference are gathering final funds to pay their 2018 apportionments for The United Methodist Church. As of Oct. 31 financials, numbers were on track for the conference to bring in about the same as it did last year, said Beth Westbury, conference treasurer and director of administrative services.

By Jessica Brodie. How can we connect missing links to make a unified, powerful whole—and do it in a way that glorifies God? That was the gist of a three-day Summit on the Black Church in Charleston this fall attended by hundreds of lay and clergy United Methodists from across South Carolina.

By Jessica Brodie. This fall, the senior pastors of two of South Carolina’s largest United Methodist churches—Mount Horeb UMC, Lexington, and Chapin UMC, Chapin—have sent letters to their congregations about the upcoming special session of General Conference, each affirming the traditional stance of the UMC.

St. John’s United Methodist Church is partnering with Habitat for Humanity to provide housing for a local family.

Similar to the “Downtown Welcome Table” ministry of Haywood Street Church in Asheville, North Carolina, Washington Street UMC hosted its very first “Sunday Dinner” experience where the primary focus of service to those in need integrated with the hope of forming lasting relationships and creating disciples of Christ.

By Jessica Brodie. South Carolina United Methodist clergy gathered at Union United Methodist Church Oct. 30 for a time devoted to “The Way Forward: Giving Leadership to Difficult Conversations.”

The 46th annual meeting of the South Carolina Conference United Methodist Women held at Central United Methodist Church in Florence October 26-27, 2018 is now history, and attendees said the event was wonderful.

On Nov. 8, hundreds of Killingsworth supporters from across the state gathered at Seawell’s to celebrate 71 years of the United Methodist ministry and give a warm welcome to new executive director Donna Lollis.

Youth at Lyttleton Street United Methodist Church have been learning valuable information about their bodies, their minds and their souls. After a one-year study of the Bible using The Story, youth have been involved in learning about their physical, mental and emotional health.

By Jessica Brodie. Two months, two hurricanes—and now, with help from the United Methodist connection, the people of South Carolina are on the rebound.

By Jessica Brodie. The denomination’s top court has ruled on two of the three plans developed by the Way Forward Commission.

By Jessica Brodie. A fresh gust of wind is blowing through United Methodist men’s ministry this fall as their leadership team gets a new president, shifts plans for its spiritual retreat and begins to walk through a vision for their districts.

By Laura Camby McCaskill. On the second floor at Stallsville United Methodist Church lives a new way for the church to be Jesus to hurting people in the world: Charis Academy.