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Midnight basketball, shag lessons, Nashville bands and free gas are some of the ways that 34 United Methodist churches have reached out to their communities, earning this year’s Bishop’s F...

Life took a turn toward disaster for Billy Robinson, but it turned into an episode that enriched and focused his life on service.In 1986, his 18-month-old son wanted to ride in the boat as the sun was...

Bishop Woodie White took on an old Gospel song, “In Times Like These,” as a way to stress his message at the Saturday morning Bible study at the Laity Convocation: “Without this book...

LAKE JUNALUSKA, N.C. – Almost 400 lay people came left North Carolina spiritually fed after the July 10th weekend. Conference Lay Leader Dr. Joseph Heyward and Laity Convocation Task Force Leade...

It was a long drive on May 11 as 81 students, alumni, faculty and campus ministers drove from all over South Carolina to Metropolitan Community UMC in Harlem, New York, for a week of learning and outr...

Subjective opinions  – that others might hear“What if the church looked at itself with seekers’ eyes?” Cabinet Dean Quay Adams asked at Annual Conference. It has been an i...

Cathy Nelson, who will teach at the United Methodist Women’s School of Mission July 23-26, grew up in Waukegan, Ill., near the location of the Ojibwa trading post on the Great Lakes. Indians wer...

FLORENCE – A conference that was expected to be one of dissention was one of relative accord, “one of the best,” the Rev. Willie Teague described it, giving the conference secretary...

By Emily Cooper BEAUFORT – Lara Byrd is in a rare demographic. She’s one of those few women who are under 30 and a member of clergy in the South Carolina conference. She has some ideas a...

GREAT BRANCH –What do Hank Aaron, Steven Spielberg, Walter Cronkite, Bill Gates and 11 of the 12 men who have set foot on the moon all have in common? If you answered “Boy Scouts,” y...