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By the time Annual Conference ended Thursday, June 6, the roughly 2,000 clergy and laity had passed a $16.8 million 2020 ministry budget for the church, ordained or commissioned 19 deacons and elders, collected hundreds of Native American elder baskets and 25 filled boxes of donated food for Harvest Hope, addressed three petitions and elected 32 delegates plus alternates to the 2020 General and Jurisdictional conferences. By Jessica Brodie.

By Jessica Brodie. Annual Conference has elected all 32 of its delegates, plus alternates, to the 2020 General Conference and the 2020 Jurisdictional Conference.

By Jessica Brodie. Annual Conference did not vote on any petitions to General Conference 2020 this year, as all three were ultimately ruled out of order.

By Jessica Brodie. Embracing a spirit of awareness, love and inclusiveness, Annual Conference gathered for a Native American worship service, “A Service of Reconciliation and Healing,” Tuesday afternoon.

By Jessica Brodie. Bringing a word on “Getting Better,” retired Bishop James R. King Jr. preached an ordination service at Annual Conference Monday night, June 3, that commissioned or ordained 19 men and women as clergy.

A common theme present throughout Annual Conference 2019 was the desire to bring in young leaders in the church. Youth, after all, represent a continued life of the church and hope for what is to come. That hope is personified in individuals such as Addie Hendrix. By Allison Redmond.

By Jessica Brodie. Thanks to the help of thousands of volunteers and millions of dollars in grant money and individual donations, South Carolina United Methodists were able to help hundreds of people devastated by the floods of 2015 and Hurricane Matthew in 2016.

By Allison Trussell. The African-American Clergywomen held their 26th annual luncheon June 3 at the South Carolina Annual Conference.

By Jessica Brodie. We are made for God. No matter our pain, our joy or any of our circumstances, all we are and all we do comes down to this one fact, preached the Rev. Sara White during an Annual Conference memorial service Monday that remembered 58 souls who have died in the past year.

By Allison Trussell. Thirty pastors were recognized and celebrated Tuesday, June 4, during the retirement service.

By Allison Trussell. With the last four lines of the Apostles’ Creed as their foundation, the Revs. Susan and Gregory Jones presented four days of Bible Study at the 2019 Annual Conference.

The Thursday, June 6, edition of the 2019 Daily Advocate is now online. Find out what’s slated for the final day of the South Carolina Annual Conference.