Jan 31, 2018 | Disaster Response, Front Page
All classes are from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Fee is $35 per person, which includes a manual, shirt, cap and badge. Fee for renewals is $10. Saturday, February 24, 2018 – Beulah UMC, 161 Beulah Church Road, Gilbert. Contact: Jan Waters at 803-687-7399 or jwltd@comporium.net....
Sep 14, 2017 | Communications, Connectional Ministries, Disaster Response
Volunteers are needed to help take calls through the United Way of South Carolina’s 2-1-1 system, which is coordinating the response to needs following Tropical Storm Irma. The efforts of the South Carolina Conference’s Disaster Response and Disaster Recovery...
Sep 9, 2017 | Bishop Holston, Communications, Connectional Ministries, Disaster Response
After a week of preparation, it appears that much of South Carolina could dodge most of the more direct effects of Hurricane Irma, a deadly Category 5 hurricane that has wrought destruction throughout the Caribbean Sea and is now bearing down on our neighbors in...
Sep 7, 2017 | Communications, Connectional Ministries, Disaster Response, Front Page
With the approach of Hurricane Irma, here’s what you can be doing to prepare yourself and your church for what the massive storm might bring. While we still do not know the exact track Irma could take, nor the level of damage it could inflict, there’s plenty that...
Jan 26, 2017 | Communications, Conference Updates, Connectional Ministries, Disaster Response, Front Page
Two Early Response Teams from the South Carolina Conference of the United Methodist Church traveled to Barnwell County near Blackville on Jan. 24 to assist victims in the wake of a tornado that came crashing in three days earlier. The EF-2 storm devastated several...