The 2024 South Carolina Synod Assembly passed a resolution setting the goal that every congregation will begin a new initiative that cares for God’s creation in some way. The resolution states that congregations should plan to submit a story of their initiative...
January 27, 2025A Statement on Hope in Action Dutch Jesuit Priest, Henri Nouwen once wrote, “There is always reason to hope…even when our eyes are filled with tears.” As leaders of Christian traditions across many states from Virginia to the Caribbean, we are people...
January 25, 2025 Many of us who will worship tomorrow will hear the gospel reading from Luke 4, verses 14-21. This is Luke’s account of the beginning of Jesus’ Ministry in Galilee, his reading from the scroll of Isaiah and proclamation in the Synagogue, and his...
Get (and keep) a calendar. You can’t plan the year ahead if you don’t know what the year looks like. Start big. Write down all the big, important, we-do-them-every-year, this-isn’t-going-to-change-unless-the-rapture-happens dates first (Easter,...
Betty May Habenicht Park, loving and much-loved wife, mother, aunt, grandmother, great-grandmother, friend, died peacefully at her home in White Rock, S.C. on Thursday, December 19, 2024. She was 95 years old. Betty was born in Columbia, S.C. on August 9, 1929, to...
