By Jessica Brodie. What happens when you experiment with bringing the high-impact training, activity and energy of the first-rate Asbury Hills summer camp to the struggling Camp Providence to serve inner-city kids in Anderson? If you ask counselors, organizers and campers, you get a weeklong recipe for success and fun.
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By Jessica Brodie. For the past two years, rain or shine and even on holidays, Triune Mercy Center has hosted a free breakfast for the homeless, a ministry organized by Bethel United Methodist Church, Simpsonville. Bethel, with help from a handful of other local churches, offers the weekly breakfast for anyone in need, no questions asked.
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By Jessica Brodie. Two United Methodist churches in two parts of South Carolina came together in Christian love to grant one hurricane victim a wish beyond her wildest dreams: a fully rebuilt, refurnished home.
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By Jessica Brodie. A new chapter has begun for Camps and Retreat Ministries, and while it means they’ve said goodbye to one much-loved piece of coastal property, they are now moving full speed ahead on expansion and development of their thriving summer camp in the Upstate.
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By Jessica Brodie. Imagine a large quilt filled with the prayers and spirit of every major United Methodist ministry effort in every district in South Carolina—a tangible reminder of the way all work together for the good of the Kingdom. That is the vision of Cynthia Williams, former convener for Connectional Ministries…
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By Jessica Brodie. This summer, dozens of Midlands refugee children are getting the chance to build better literacy skills and better ties to America thanks to a program started by Columbia District United Methodist churches.
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Historic decision first of its kind among Methodist churches in South Carolina; expanded congregation now includes two campuses.
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By Rena Smith. South Carolina’s annual conference secretary recently gathered with United Methodists around the world for a meeting of the Connectional Table in Oslo, Norway.
Read MoreBy Caroline Dennis. This year in America, more than 2.5 million children and their parents will experience homelessness. Family Promise and Grace United Methodist Church, North Augusta, are doing something about this problem.
Read MoreBy Rena Smith. After receiving word of a devastating wildfire in Oklahoma, one United Methodist man and his friends responded in Christian love.
Read MoreBy Rena Smith. In light of the recent passing of the “Healing the Legacy of Lynching” resolution during South Carolina’s Annual Conference 2017, the Equal Justice Initiative is encouraging South Carolina United Methodists to utilize its interactive website, EJI.org, to confront the legacy of racial terror.
Read MoreGod doesn’t meow like my cat. But He’s still nudging us daily—all day long. A reflection by Advocate Editor Jessica Brodie.
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Bishop Jonathan Holston reflects on how, as Ephesians reminds us, God does not push us around but is always at work within us.
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Read the 17th narrative accepted for publication (this one by Bill Dowler) in the Advocate’s project to help foster racial awareness, dialogue and reconciliation.
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South Carolina United Methodists gather in Greenville to do work of the church By Jessica Brodie GREENVILLE—“It’s time for us to celebrate!” Bishop Jonathan Holston proclaimed to wild applause, kicking…
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By Jessica Brodie. Annual Conference has passed six of its seven resolutions for 2017, many rooted in solidarity or in healing.
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By Jessica Brodie. South Carolina laity and clergy had the chance to vote yesterday on five amendments to the constitution of The United Methodist Church, but results of the vote will not be released until all annual and central conferences throughout the denomination have voted.
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By Jessica Brodie. One of the resolutions submitted to Annual Conference—on a disaffiliation from the denomination—was ruled out of order and not brought before the body at the 2017 session.
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By Jessica Brodie. Changes to the Annual Conference’s standing rules have done away with the ability for late resolutions to be submitted on the conference floor, though this (or any) standing rule can be suspended with a two-thirds vote at Annual Conference.
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By Jessica Brodie. Lifting up the majestic and transformative beauty of the redwood tree, which starts out from a seed tinier than a tomato’s and grows into a massive and hardy testament to life, Louisiana Resident Bishop Cynthia Fierro Harvey preached an ordination service Monday at Annual Conference that ordained or commissioned 26 clergy.
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