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How congregations can support communities during a pandemic
posted on May 20, 2020 What’s happening in our communities? Healthcare systems stretched; record unemployment: grieving losses; families cooped up, adapting to working from home; everything moved online; churches and businesses retooling for social dist...
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Guidelines for Reopening In-Person Worship
posted on May 18, 2020 The Episcopal Diocese of Upper South Carolina has released the following initial guidelines for reopening in-person worship. Click here to view the full document , and visit our main COVID-19 page for additional information.
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Project Host and Christ Church collaborate to better serve Greenville community
posted on May 9, 2020 “On April 1, I was having a check-in with Tobin Simpson at Project Host. He told me the story of how its food truck took 100 meals out to a mobile home park in southern Greenville County. One thousand people showed up. It’s a horrible story, ...
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Fresh Start Ministry aids in providing food security in the midst of COVID-19
posted on Apr 25, 2020 St. Luke’s, Columbia’s Fresh Start Ministry is doing its part in providing food security to its clients during the COVID-19 pandemic. Currently, Fresh Start is the only operational food pantry in the Columbia area and one of ten ope...
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Email and text scam targets clergy, lay leaders
posted on Apr 24, 2020 Diocesan House staff has heard from a number of clergy and lay leaders that they are receiving fraudulent emails or texts that ask for money, gift cards, or other favors posing as Bishop Waldo, or other clergy leaders. Please know that Bishop Wa...
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Practicing the Way of Love with BINGO!
posted on Apr 22, 2020 Kim and Furman Buchanan, from St. Peter's, Greenville, recently shared with us this great formation idea.
He writes...
"Well, the other night our daughter was telling us how her company has a ‘BINGO card’ with various activities their e...
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Events Calendar
Big Delicious Event at Home
posted on Apr 22, 2020 It’s the dinner/drink event you all know and love IN YOUR OWN HOME! Gather ingredients from your grocery store, grab a local beverage pairing from your favorite spot, watch helpful step-by-step video tutorials by Chef Brandon Velie, and enjoy a...
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Technology Resources
How Should We Track Online Attendance?
posted on Apr 20, 2020 How many people joined your Sunday service on Facebook? If you haven't gone looking for that answer yet, you probably will soon.
And the answer is exceedingly tricky.
Here is a letter from The Rev. Canon Michael Barlowe, Executive Officer...
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98th Diocesan Convention
Call to Convention 2020
posted on Apr 20, 2020 The 98th Annual Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Upper South Carolina will take place on November 6-7, 2020, at Heathwood Hall Episcopal School in Columbia, South Carolina. Dear Clergy of the Episcopal Diocese of Upper South Carolina, W...
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Disaster Preparedness & Emergency Response / Stories from EDUSC
The Emotional Lifecycle of a Disaster
posted on Apr 15, 2020 Disasters and mass disruptive events can be extremely unpredictable and chaotic. Even though that is a valid characterization of catastrophe, disaster experts have discerned a general pattern or cycle of phases that a community and the individual...
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