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The South Carolina Conference is an
annual conference A conference is a meeting of two or more experts to discuss and exchange opinions or new information about a particular topic. Conferences can be used as a form of group decision-making, although discussion, not always decisions, are the main pu ...
(regional
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area, similar to a diocese) of the United Methodist Church. This conference serves the state of South Carolina with its administrative offices and the office of the bishop (currently L. Jonathan Holston) being in Columbia, South Carolina. It is part of the Southeastern Jurisdictional Conference. The South Carolina Conference provides funding to four institutions of higher learning: * Spartanburg Methodist Collegebr>
-- Spartanburg, South Carolina * Claflin Universitybr>
-- Orangeburg, South Carolina * Columbia Collegebr>
-- Columbia, South Carolina * Wofford Collegebr>
-- Spartanburg, South Carolina The SC Annual Conference is further subdivided into 12 smaller regions, called "districts," which provide further administrative functions for the operation of local churches in cooperation with each other. This structure is vital to Methodism, and is referred to as
connectionalism Connexionalism, also spelled connectionalism, is the theological understanding and foundation of Methodist ecclesiastical polity, as practised in the Methodist Church in Britain, Methodist Church in Ireland, United Methodist Church, Free Methodi ...
. The Districts that comprise the South Carolina Conference are: *Anderson *Charleston *Columbia *Florence *Greenville *Greenwood *Hartsville *Marion *Orangeburg *Rock Hill *Spartanburg *Walterboro


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South Carolina Conference of The United Methodist Church
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South Carolina United Methodist Advocate
', conference newspaper {{Methodist-stub Methodism in South Carolina South Carolina
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