United Methodist financial leaders are cheering this month after closing the conference’s best year in more than a decade—even after a devastating flood that racked up billions of dollars in damage statewide. South Carolina United Methodist churches paid 91.1 percent of their apportionments for 2015, almost 2 percent higher than the 89.4 percent paid in 2014 and the first time the conference has achieved over the 90 percent mark since 2002. Read more by Jessica Brodie in the Advocate, here. http://www.advocatesc.org/2016/01/91-1-umcsc-celebrates-best-year-in-more-than-a-decade/
