Stories from EDUSC
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Plant, Pray, Proclaim: Good News Gardens
Along with, and often because of, the issues facing our communities today, there is an immediate and widespread problem with the food supply. Sometimes it's a supply chain glitch, sometimes it's and economic calamity. The Episcopal Church...
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Bishop Andrew Waldo Announces Plan to Retire, Calls for Election of Next Bishop
(COLUMBIA, S.C.) The Rt. Rev. W. Andrew Waldo yesterday announced plans to retire at the end of 2021 and called for the election of the Ninth Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Upper South Carolina. The Standing Committee of the diocese gave thei...
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ONE THOUSAND DAYS OF LOVE
Last fall, Episcopal Relief & Development launched a $3 million grass-roots, church-wide fund-raising campaign dedicated to improving the lives of children up to age six.
ONE THOUSAND DAYS OF LOVE seeks to help communities nurture children...
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How congregations can support communities during a pandemic
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
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
“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
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
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!
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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The Emotional Lifecycle of a Disaster
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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Signs of New Life
We've asked folks around the diocese to reflect on where they see signs of new life in the families, communities, and congregations.
We'll be adding new responses in the coming weeks, so check back to see where we find new life!
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A Different Kind of Lent
The following piece was written for our monthly Environmental Stewardship newsletter. If you are interested in receiving these emails, please subscribe here . For more information on our Enviornmental Stewardship committee, check out their web...
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Feast of Absalom Jones
Today marks the Feast of Absalom Jones, an African American abolitionist and clergyman and the first African American ordained a priest in The Episcopal Church. Students and faculty at Voorhees College, along with clergy and lay persons from thro...
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Rooted in Jesus
In January, more than two dozen lay and clergy leaders from across EDUSC gathered with more than 1,000 Episcopalians in Atlanta for the first-ever Rooted in Jesus conference. This gathering was collaboration between several Episcopal organization...
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Looking for God in the middle of everything
Clergy from across the diocese gathered this week at Camp Gravatt for our Pre-Lenten Retreat. Cameron Vivanco, EDUSC missionary in Ecuador and founder of Education Equals Hope , facilitated our conversations about where God is working in, thro...
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What is it Like to Experience a Holy Hike? – A Personal Reflection by Laura Snow Hawkins
Environmental stewardship can play out in many forms. One intriguing and deeply meaningful way is by participating in a Holy Hike.In the following story, Laura Snow Hawkins, Coordinator for Holy Hikes Upper South Carolina, gives us a thoughtful e...
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2020 Partnership Haiti Symposium coming February 22
Join us for the 2020 Partnership Haiti Sympoisum, recognizing and honoring our 40-year partnership in the country.
Saturday, February 22, 2020 9:30am - 4:00pm Christ Church 10 N Church St. Greenville, SC 29601 Click here to register for t...
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St. Martin’s donation to help alleviate $1.5 million in local medical debt
A gift of $15,000 has been made by St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields Episcopal Church to RIP Medical Debt, which will enable up to $1.5 million in hospital medical debt to be forgiven in Richland and surrounding counties. “In the Old Testament, t...
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“Everybody’s journey needs to be honored” - 2019 Fellowship of S.C. Bishops' Dialogue centers on "Confronting Hate"
Starting a conversation about racism and hatred in South Carolina is a daunting task, so how do people of faith go about confronting hate when it appears in our pews and in our classrooms? Recognizing the church’s role in “Confronting Hate...
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Feeding the Church with Cross-Cultural Ministry
By Linda L. Dienno, Vice President for Institutional Advancement at Virginia Theological Seminary
St. Mary’s Episcopal Church in Columbia, SC,
honored the Rev. Alfredo “Fr. Fred” Gonzalez
by making a significant donation to ...
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An Overview of the 2019 House of Bishops' Meeting
The Episcopal Church's House of Bishops gathered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, from September 17 - 20 for a four-day meeting, studying, discussing, and grappling with many challenging issues facing the Episcopal Church. Bishop Waldo was 1 of approxi...
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Confronting Hate: 2019 Fellowship of South Carolina Bishops’ Dialogue
Churches and schools across our state are not immune to the rise of racist theology and rhetoric. So how do we, as Christians, confront this hate in our pews and classrooms?
Recognizing the Church's role in confronting hate and working toward ...
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Regina Ratterree honored with Order of the Palmetto award
Regina Ratterree, a long-time parishioner at All Saints’, Cayce, recently was awarded the Order of the Palmetto, the highest civilian honor given by the Governor of South Carolina. Rep. Micah Caskey, who represents the 89th District in the Sout...
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Gravatt holds Staffer of the Year presentation
At the close of every summer at Camp Gravatt, the Frederick C. Byrd Most Outstanding Staff Award is presented to one male and one female staff member. This honor is decided upon by their fellow counselors, and it is always a very special presenta...
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A Back to School Message from Bishop Waldo
As we approach another school year, Bishop Waldo discusses the opportunities that this time of new beginnings provides. And don't forget to stick around until the very end...
For information on diocesan youth retreats, visit: https://www...
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Mission in the Community St. Luke's, Columbia's Fresh Start Program
On October 14, 2016, St. Luke’s began a new ministry called
Fresh Start. It was our mission to provide free laundry services, showers,
clothing and food for the area’s homeless population and working poor. Since
opening, our services have ...
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Crossing Boundaries, Creating Community
For most of his tenure, Presiding Bishop Michael B. Curry has touted the importance of recognizing and supporting the work of the two Episcopal-affiliated historically black colleges and universities as part of a commitment to racial reconci...
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A Pastoral Letter from Bishop Waldo
Sisters and Brothers in Christ,
“I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me.” (Matthew 25:35)
Over and over, Jesus calls his disciples to live with compassion for one a...
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A Call To Prayer For An End To Gun Violence
Dear Family in Christ, This weekend, faith communities, civic organizations, and non-profit partners are joining together in the Wear Orange campaign for National Gun Violence Awareness Day (Friday, June 7). Bishops United Against Gun Violence, ...
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Baptized for Life
The following report was written by Ann Marie Jones of St. Phillip's Greenville. We are “called to lives of meaning and purpose.” This statement aptly describes one objective of Baptized for Life (BFL), an Episcopal discipleship initiati...
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Christ Church, Greenville hosts only Rhythms of Grace program in South Carolina
Ms. Hedrick Lewis started as the Director of Children’s Ministry at Christ Church, Greenville nearly 4 years ago and immediately noticed a void that needed to be filled. There were quite a few families attending Sunday services with children th...
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Easter in a POW Camp
It began on April 9, 1942, but he was officially captured the very next day. Thousands of American and Filipino men were transferred from the Southern end of the Bataan Penninsula and made the march northward from the vicinity of Mariveles to San...
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Who Is My Neighbor?
“Who Is My Neighbor?”, is a four-part Lenten Series beginning Sunday, March 10 at 4:00 p.m. sponsored by St. John’s Episcopal Church, 301 W. Liberty St., Winnsboro, SC. Speakers from the Episcopal, Jewish, Muslim and Greek Orthodox faiths w...
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