St. Matthews Charge

12/25/2022

Mt. Zion will have service this morning at our regular time (10am). Please join us for Holy Communion as we remember the birth and death of our savior, Jesus Christ.

04/09/2020

In case you've missed them, Pastor Lois has been sharing a daily devotional each day of Passion Week. Here's the devotional for today, Maundy Thursday. Be sure to subscribe to St. Matthews Charge on You Tube

Reverend Lois Helms devotional for 9 April 2020 (Maundy Thursday). Matthew 26:26-30.

06/24/2019

https://stmatthewscharge.org/news/2019/6/24/farm-and-landowner-workshop

Hey all! This Wednesday, June 26, the SC Association for Community Economic Development (SCACED) will be hosting a workshop to talk about rural economic development. They will talk about funding and grants, increasing profitability, starting and growing agricultural businesses, and more. When: Jun

06/17/2019

Movie Nights at Mt. Zion! Tell Everyone!

When: Every 3rd Thursday all summer long at 6:30 pm (June 20th, July, 18th, August 15th) Where: Mt. Zion United Methodist Church What Movies? June- I Can Only Imagine

06/15/2019

Throwback to last year's Ten Commandments Remix. Download a printable PDF at http://bit.ly/2HLXBTs.

05/22/2019

https://stmatthewscharge.org/news/2019/5/22/dr-david-loses-advice-for-growing-your-church

Dear Friends, I recently had the opportunity to attend a lecture given by Dr. David Lose. He is the pastor at Mt. Olivet Lutheran Church in Minneapolis which is one of the largest Lutheran churches in America. So I would like to share some of his wisdom, and some of my own thoughts, from the other

05/01/2019

04/26/2019

Churches across the nation are competing with soccer, baseball and sometimes just “sleeping in.” So one worship community in College Station, Texas decided to try something different to reach millennials. And it’s working!

04/26/2019

Bishop L. Jonathan Holston, resident bishop of the South Carolina Conference of the United Methodist Church, released this statement following the April 26, 2019, rulings by the UMC Judicial Council on legislation approved at the 2019 General Conference: The complex, often painful debate that has ga...

04/26/2019

For anyone following news about this February's General Conference. Please join us in prayer for the UMC during this difficult time:

However, United Methodist Judicial Council rules that some key parts of denomination-wide plan are still unconstitutional.

04/19/2019

For my Sunday School class, I have created the below graphic to help them understand what atonement means and the varieties of understandings of what it took for humanity to be reconciled to God. Here's the lesson: The word atonement comes from sixteenth-century English and literally means at-on