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Cursillo / Formation / Stories from EDUSC
My Fourth Day Story: The Places the Fourth Day will Take You
posted on Mar 26, 2024 pictured, 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 disinc...
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Children's and Youth Formation / Formation / Stories from EDUSC
Staff Transition Announcement: Katelyn Kenney
posted on Feb 1, 2024 I 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, C...
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Cursillo / Formation
Cursillo Fall 2023 Update
posted on Jan 30, 2024 The 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 thr...
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Young Adults & Campus Ministry / Campus Ministry / Formation
Fall 2023 Canterbury Wrap-Up
posted on Jan 30, 2024 Throughout the Fall 2023 semester, the young adult group
Canterbury within the Episcopal Upper Diocese of South Carolina experienced
significant growth and encountered valuable opportunities. At the start of the
semester, peer ministers, spiri...
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Children's and Youth Formation / Formation
Reflection on Converge 2023
posted on Jan 30, 2024 Back 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 excerp...
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Stories from EDUSC
Notes from Along the Way | Christmas Message 2023
posted on Dec 22, 2023
December 22, 2023 In the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a village in Galilee called Nazareth, to a virgin vitro to a man named Joseph, of the house of David . Luke 1:26. It is an interesting detail that Luke has to tel...
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Cursillo / Stories from EDUSC / Formation
My Fourth Day Story: Virtual Group Reunion Reflections
posted on Dec 12, 2023 My Fourth Day Story is a new blog series from the Cursillo community in Upper South Carolina. Within the context of the three-day Cursillo weekend experience, the "fourth day" represents what happens next; in other words, life after Cursillo. W...
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Notes Along the Way: Meditations from Bishop Richards
Hope in a Time of Violence
posted on Oct 13, 2023 In every Gospel account, there is some element of Jesus teaching about the apocalypse, but we often misread these statements as being about the end of the world when in fact, there is some nuance to the language. Generally, he talks about "the en...
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Stories from EDUSC
St. Peter's, Greenville calls new Rector
posted on Jun 26, 2023 The Episcopal Diocese of Upper South Carolina is pleased to announce the calling of The Rev. Chuck Messer as the new Rector of St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Greenville. Father Chuck earned his Master of Divinity at the Nazarene Theological Se...
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Cursillo / Formation
Reflection on Cursillo #144
posted on Jun 7, 2023 My journey as lay rector for Cursillo #144 began long before we actually gathered together as a group at Camp Gravatt. I spent hours in the planning stages both at home and along side my wonderful staff. When the candidates began to arrive for th...
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