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          Nashville, Tenn. (615) 742-5470            July 29, 1996

South Carolina United Methodists to hold care 
workshop for victims of burned churches

                 by United Methodist News Service

     United Methodists in South Carolina will hold a pastoral care
workshop Aug. 28 to promote healing among people affected by the
church burnings in the South.
     The workshop, sponsored both by the United Methodist
Conference's Disaster Relief Committee and the churchwide United
Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR), will be a one-day event
held at the White Oak Conference Center in White Oak, S.C. It is
hoped that the workshop will raise difficult theological questions
and lead to more meetings with people involved. 
     Within the past 18 months, a wave of arson has burned more
than 50 predominately rural African-American Churches in the
South. Suspicious fires also have burned at least 23 white
churches, mosques and synagogues since January 1995.  
     The one-day event has been planned to receive 300 people from
burned churches as well as officials from across the church,
including bishops, pastoral counselors and disaster
response/relief experts. 
     "We want this to be a time of nurturing, healing and
enlightenment," said the Rev. Lee Bines, chairman of the South
Carolina Conference Disaster Relief Committee and pastor of
Emmanuel United Methodist Church, Sumter. 
     "This crisis has affected people in a very human way," he
said. The workshop "is an attempt to look at where they may be
hurting internally. Its rebuilding from within."
     Bines indicated the workshops will attempt "to address,
expose and shed light on hurts so that people first can address
the concerns within themselves so that they can receive strategies
that will lead to healing."
     There will be no charge to participate in the one-day event,
but registration is required. For registration information contact
Bines at (803) 773-6197. 
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