Posts from 2023

Whenever Rev. Morris Waymer welcomes new faces to worship at New Francis Brown UMC, he tells them to expect God to do something every time they walk through the building’s doors.  On Sunday July 30th, New Francis Brown UMC (NFB) and Cokesbury UMC gathered as a single worshiping body on NFB’s campus, and God was certainly doing something with us!  The Holy Spirit…

It goes without saying that the events of the last several months have been painful for all those involved.  Whether an individual or local church has chosen to stay United Methodist or not, we mourn the loss of the sense of community with those we have worshiped and conferenced with for…

July 1, 2023          Has it really been a year already?  In some ways June 29, 2022 seems like yesterday, and in other ways, it feels like I have been appointed as Cokesbury UMC’s pastor for much longer than a year.  The old saying goes, “Time flies when you are having fun,” and despite some of the…

June 6, 2023 Sisters and Brothers in Christ, Today was a heavy day at the meeting of the South Carolina Annual Conference of The United Methodist Church. This afternoon we voted to approve the separation of 113 of our sister churches that they might follow their own path in discerning God’s call on their lives. The weight of the moment could be physically felt in the…

Change for many of us is a scary word; especially if we are comfortable. Just the prospect of change can make us uncomfortable if it challenges our understanding of ourselves, of our world, and especially of God. Yet, change guided by God is exactly what Jesus preached from the beginning of his ministry until his ascension (Mark 1:15; Luke 24:47). Jesus wants to change…