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Suspension of Public Worship
posted on Mar 16, 2020Dear Sisters and Brothers in Christ, The guidance from public health officials is changing by the hour. Yet our call as Christians is clear: We are called to love our neighbor, and right now one of the best ways we can do that is to help slow ...
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Province IV Youth Ministries
Province IV Youth Leadership and Networking Meeting The Province IV Youth Leadership and Networking Meeting (PYNM) is a gathering of diocesan youth ministry coordinators and youth leaders from across Province IV where participants engage in lead...Read More ›
Research and Statistics
Congregational Data Beginning in January 2020, congregational and diocesan leaders in The Episcopal Church will have access to a new online resource for understanding history and visioning the future with the data collected through the Parochial...Read More ›
Diocesan Youth Leadership Committee
The Diocesan Youth Leadership Committee (DYLC) is made up of young people (high school students) and adults (22 and up) from throughout the diocese. This group serves as the core leadership for implementing policy, developing procedures, and desig...Read More ›
Prayer Resources
Online Worship Click here for resources related to setting up technology and leading worship online. Click here for a list of EDUSC congregations that live-stream various worship services. Liturgical resources to assist you in leading or par...Read More ›
Adult Volunteer Guidelines
Adult volunteers play a critical role in formation ministries by showing young people of our diocese that there are older people in their communities who care about their well-being and spiritual development. At the same time, adults who volunteer...Read More ›
Revised Alcohol Policy
THE EPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF UPPER SOUTH CAROLINA The Rev. Canon Stephen J. Rhoades Canon to the Ordinary MEMORANDUM To: All Clergy and Senior Wardens Date: February 6, 2023 Re: Revised Diocesan Alcohol Policy On December 10, 2022, the Stand...Read More ›
101st Diocesan Convention
CLICK HERE to download the 101st Convention Manual Courtesy Block Hotel Rooms Available for the 101st Diocesan Convention, November 10-11, 2023 Christ Church Parish, Greenville, SC With the continuation of the two-day schedule of Conventi...Read More ›
Staff Transition Announcement: Courtney Thompson
posted on Mar 26, 2024After six years of faithful service to the Episcopal Diocese of Upper South Carolina, Our Director of Communications, Courtney Thompson, has discerned a call in a different direction. Courtney first joined the staff in 2018, overseeing communicat...
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My Fourth Day Story: The Places the Fourth Day will Take You
posted on Mar 26, 2024pictured, left to right: Danny Shelton (St. Matthew's, Spartanburg), Jane Bird (St. Matthew's, Spartanburg). Cursillo #119 found me. If I’d gotten my way, I would not have attended. That is another story for another time. The root of my disincli...
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Cursillo Fall 2023 Update
posted on Jan 30, 2024The Cursillo ministry is a vibrant example of living out our diocesan mission: Making, Equipping and Sending Mature Disciples of Jesus Christ.” With the support of diocesan staff, Cursillo continues to expand our ministry within more churches th...
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Reflection on Converge 2023
posted on Jan 30, 2024Back in October, myself and an assortment of other youth leaders from across our diocese organized and executed a youth retreat at St. Christopher’s Episcopal Church in Spartanburg. Within this retreat, we centered our program around an excer...
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Staff Transition Announcement: Katelyn Kenney
posted on Jan 24, 2024I am writing to announce that Katelyn Kenney has discerned that she will transition out of her role as Canon for Christian Formation. Katelyn began her time at Diocesan House in the summer of 2019 as the Missioner for Christian Formation, Co...
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The Rev. Jane Rogers Wilson, "Janey," to join Diocesan Staff
posted on Mar 27, 2023The Rt. Rev. Daniel Richards has called the Rev. Janey Wilson, Rector of the Episcopal Church of Our Saviour in Rock Hill, to join the Diocesan staff as Archdeacon, effective June 1, 2023. “In seeking to round out the staff with gifts and stre...
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Email scam targets clergy, lay leaders
posted on Dec 7, 2022Diocesan House staff has heard from a number of clergy and lay leaders that they are receiving fraudulent emails that ask for money, gift cards, or other favors posing as Bishop Richards, or other clergy leaders. Please know that Bishop Richards h...
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Rule of Life and the How
posted on Nov 4, 2022It would be silly for me to expect to show up in uniform at a professional football game and play like a pro quarterback. When the game is on the line, and Tom Brady puts his hands out to receive the football, he is doing something he has rehear...
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Safe Church Updates (September 2022)
posted on Sep 30, 2022As some of you may already know, sexual exploitation and harassment training supported by The Episcopal Church has been in the midst of transition for several years: new policies have been approved, a new curriculum has been developed, and a new o...
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Archdeacon d'Rue Hazel accepts new call in Diocese of Virginia
posted on Sep 22, 2022Archdeacon d'Rue Hazel has accepted a call to serve as Canon to the Ordinary to Bishop-elect Mark E. Stevenson following his consecration as Bishop in December. Archdeacon Hazel has served the diocese of Upper South Carolina for over two decades,...
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Living in the Reign of God, Continued
posted on Sep 21, 2022As we return to the backroads of the South, both of my childhood and last weekend, we turn back to the call to repent. Repent! It should get an exclamation point if you see it along the backroads—bonus points for hand-painted flames. My favori...
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Living in the Reign of God
posted on Sep 10, 2022Driving along the backroads of the Diocese of Upper South Carolina, there are nostalgic moments that put me back in the South of my childhood. Old bridges, farms, and rolling hills. Elementary schoolyards in summer, empty but for the weeds. Small ...
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Memory, Grief, and more Prayers
posted on Jun 17, 2022June 17, 2022 We grieve with our siblings at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, Vestavia Hills, Alabama. Today, the Presiding Bishop Michael Curry is in Charleston participating in the remembrance of the massacre at Mother Emanuel AME Church seve...
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Other Guides
posted on May 23, 2022Backpacking in the desert has one problem before all others: water. When doing long solo hikes, it was not really possible to carry all that one person needed for more than a couple of days, at least it was not for me. So I had to have water sourc...
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Diocese of Upper South Carolina notified of successful canonical consent process
posted on Dec 17, 2021December 17, 2021 Brothers and Sisters in Christ, We are delighted to advise you that the Diocese has received notification from Presiding Bishop and Primate Michael B. Curry that BIshop-elect Daniel P. Richards has received the required majority...
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Updates from Haiti - Summer 2021
posted on Aug 27, 2021by Harry G. Morse, MD, Diocesan World Missions Committee Several of our fellow parishioners have expressed concern in recent weeks for the safety and security of our brothers and sisters in Haiti. Political Crisis--As most of you know, Haiti has...
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Call to Convention 2021
posted on Aug 3, 2021Dear Clergy and Delegates to Convention, With prayers of thanksgiving for our bishop, clergy (active and retired), parishes and missions, it gives me great pleasure to offer the official “Call for a Special Convention for The Episcopal Dioce...
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Diocesan House staffing updates
posted on Jun 23, 202123 June 2021 Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Among the events common with episcopal transitions are diocesan staff members discerning God's next call in their lives. Two of o...
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Bridge Retreat 2021 Reflection
posted on Jun 2, 2021We hosted Bridge Retreat at Camp Gravatt May 15 & 16. It was a wonderful 24-hour experience for 5th and 6th grade participants led by high school members of the Diocesan Youth Leadership Committee. We learned about Jesus’ prayer for his disciple...
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High School Connect Reflection
posted on Mar 1, 2021On February 6th, the Diocesan Youth Leadership Committee hosted the Connect virtual event for high school youth in lieu of the SMASH! Retreat usually held. The scripture we focused on was Isaiah 40:21-31. The event started out with a DYLC introduc...
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