Seacoast Stories: Story

10 Books to Read This Summer

#Summer Reading
If you had to sum up your life in books, what would be on your bookshelf? Probably some books from when you were little—Berenstain Bears, [...]

10 Things We’ve Learned From 42 Years Of Marriage

#Greg & Debbie Surratt #Marriage
Founding Pastors Greg and Debbie Surratt have gained valuable wisdom during their 42 years of marriage. Here are just a few of their many helpful [...]

3 Epidemics Buzzing Around Us All (Not counting COVID-19)

#Chip Judd #Hope #self-control #victimization
As a pastor and counselor, I often notice and think about the patterns in our behaviors and relationships that sabotage our efforts to live the [...]

A Cheerful Giver

#food pantry #Jessica Fackler #Laundromat #Local Missions #Make a Difference
Grace Crawford never planned for their little coin-op laundromat to double as a food pantry. It was not part of the original business plan. Soap [...]

A Fresh Start

#find god #Giving #Small Group
Sometimes you just need someone to give you a little push. If the leader of Will and Meredith Huggin’s married small group hadn’t encouraged the [...]

A Higher Level of Healing

#ADHD #Bagels #Bipolar Disorder #College/20s #Covid-19 #Depression #Make a Difference #OCD #Scotty Millen #Small Group #suicide
This is sort of a modern day loaves and fishes story, except it involves bagels. In April, some friends from my small group (College and [...]

A Lifestyle of Forgiveness

#21 Days Of Prayer and Fasting #Counseling #find god #Forgiveness #Michael Morris #prayer
It’s a new year—a new decade—and here at Seacoast we’re in the thick of our 21 Days of Prayer and Fasting. Of the many things [...]

A Place For Us

#At The Movies #Grow Your Faith #The Greatest Showman
Movies reveal a lot about our culture’s fears, hopes, and values. During our summer At The Movies series, we’re talking about what moves us and [...]

A Series of Miracles in Difficult Times

#Cancer treatment #coronavirus #Covid-19 #Dustin McConnell #Grow Your Faith #Joan Smith #miracles #Myelofibrosis #Robert Smith #transplant
Written from an interview with Robert “Woody” and Joan Smith, Seacoast Mount Pleasant Campus. In the time of COVID-19, everyone’s life has been disrupted in [...]

A Veteran’s Story Of Service and Sacrifice

#Columbia Campus #Make a Difference #Military #Veterans Day
For most of the 5,000+ sailors on-board, it was a normal day on the USS Nimitz—but not for me. For months, my wife Stephanie and [...]

A Woman’s Great Adventure

#At The Movies #Grow Your Faith #Small Group #Wonder Woman
Joining my first small group this summer has been my best experience yet at Seacoast. We are reading a book together called Captivating by John [...]

Abbie’s Story of Healing

#Grow Your Faith #Healing #Miracle Service #myseacoaststory
We are not meant to keep to ourselves what God is doing in our lives. So today, I want to share my healing story. On [...]

An Open Letter To My White Friends

#Make a Difference #Race #Unity #Where's The Love
As Martin Luther King Jr. said, “…we are all tied together in a single garment of destiny.” We are all part of God’s family. But [...]

An Unexpected Friendship Becomes An Answer To Prayer

#Luke 14 #Make a Difference #Won By Won
After 22 years of working as a caregiver for individuals with special needs, Lorrie Corr felt the pull to leave that career, so she could [...]

Angry Like Jesus

#Anger #Grow Your Faith #Where's The Love
One of the most important things we learn to do as we grow up is distinguish between good and bad anger. Some anger is unreasonable, [...]

Bearing Christmas: What More Can You Carry?

#Bearing Christmas #Discover Your Purpose #Hope
“But the Lord stood by my side and gave me strength” 2 Timothy 4:17 During the Christmas season, we all carry things with us wherever we [...]

Beauty from [Broken Heart] Ashes 

#find god
February 15th is Singles Awareness Day, the day after Valentine’s Day which is the most “romantic” (or commercialized) day of the year. For many singles, [...]

Becoming a Holy City

#Make a Difference #Unity #West Ashley Campus #Where's The Love
Charleston, South Carolina has experienced significant trials in the last several years. Horrors such as the 2015 shooting at Mother Emanuel AME Church threatened to [...]

Camp Changed My Life

#Camp #find god #myseacoaststory #summer camp
"Attending Summer Camp was the best decision I’ve ever made. And my relationship with God transformed."

Chasing The Right Career Path

#Beth Andrews #Career #ReStart Conference
When I took a seat in the Worship Center one Sunday, the pre-service video about the ReStart Career Conference immediately caught my attention.   Are [...]

Christmas Memories

#Christmas At Seacoast #Church Online #Family #Gifts #Joy #Love #McClellanville #Ryan Scott
As a child, I could smell the cranberry muffins, sausage balls, and pumpkin bread before I even opened my eyes. The anticipation and excitement I [...]

Church Online Connects A Retirement Community

#Church Online #Daniel Pointe #Make a Difference
When Leslie Sommerdyke began a new career as the Senior Living Consultant at Daniel Pointe Retirement Community near Charleston, she asked God to “use me [...]

Cody’s Story of Healing

#Grow Your Faith #Healing #Men's Hike #Miracle Service #myseacoaststory
January 23 is a date that will forever be marked on my calendar. It isn’t my birthday, my anniversary, or any of my children’s birthdays. [...]

Dare To Love In The Face Of Fear

#Fear #Honduras #Make a Difference #Marney McNall #Men's Ministry #Missions Trips #Prison
The sweltering heat hit Brian Lewis, Men’s Ministry Pastor, and the missions team as soon as they stepped from the van onto a street in [...]

Defying a Legacy

#addiction #alcoholism #care #Dream Center #Encouragers #find god #Griefshare #Jasmine #Legacy #recovery #Sisterhood
We will all leave a legacy—and our choices will determine what kind. Yvonne hadn’t been to church since age 11—and she hadn’t even liked it [...]

Don’t Be Afraid to Ask For Help

#Care Care Ministry #Griefshare #Grow Your Faith #Single Moms
“But in the darkest of situations, in the darkest corners, God shines through in a way you would never experience otherwise.”

Eyes to See

#africa #battles to breakthrough #care ministry #Discover Your Purpose #missions #togo
by Christie Michaud TOGO, West Africa – The heat was intense. In a foreign land, I sat under the few trees I could find for [...]

Far More Than Childcare

#Dream Team #Kidscoast #Parenting Hacks
It’s back to school season and the days are full of homework, busy schedules, or family situations that can cause worry and anxiety for children [...]

Father’s Day: The Other Side of Things

#Father's Day #Grow Your Faith #myseacoaststory #single dads
A single dad inspired the creation of Father’s Day. In 1909, Sonora Smart Dodd sat in church, wondering: if mothers had a day to honor [...]

Fighting for Marriage

#Debby DeRosa #Greenville Campus #Marriage #Men's Hike #small groups
In 2018, Travis Graham felt like his life was in shambles. During his years of military and police service, he had injured his back multiple [...]

Financial Peace University

#Financial Peace University
What a Snapshot Tells Us Snapshots capture more than we’d like sometimes. They catch unflattering moments, our mouths open, or our eyes mid-blink. Yet some [...]

Finding An Anchor For The Soul

#Chris Russo #coronavirus #Covid-19 #find god #Hope #Trust #West Ashley Campus
We live in uncertain times. We’ve probably always sensed this, but it’s been accentuated strongly by the spread of the Coronavirus. In times like these, [...]

Finding Confidence In The Midst Of Uncertainty

#Anxiety #Battles #Believers Battle Strategy #Christie Michaud #Confidence #Covid-19 #Fear #Peace #prayer #Truth #Uncertainty #Worry
Everyone is talking about COVID-19. So many voices and opinions and so much information. Who do we listen to? What’s the truth? And if the [...]

Finding My Way

#find god #small groups #Welcome Home
My husband and I were not mega church, multisite people. I had to be divinely convinced Seacoast was where we belonged. For three months, we [...]

Finding Purpose

#Chosen Women's Conference #Dangerous #Discover Your Purpose
Adapted from an interview with Jess Reger Her first round of chemo was called Red Devil. The nurses wore HAZMAT suits to administer it to [...]

First Impression Leaves Lasting Impact

#Dream Team #Inside Track #Mac Mood #Make a Difference #Marney McNall #small groups #West Ashley
First impressions really do matter. When Harry Reimers and his wife Karen first walked into the West Ashley Campus, Pastor Mac Mood was the first [...]

Forgiving the Unforgivable

#battles to breakthrough #find god
Forgiveness is one of the hardest things God asks us to do. Why is it so important to forgive someone who has hurt us?

Freedom from Anxiety

#Anxiety #Grow Your Faith #small groups
This week, we celebrate freedom. As a writer and a Christian, I am especially grateful for the freedom of speech and the freedom of religion. [...]

From Homeless to Harbinger of Hope

#Adoption #foster care #Grow Your Faith #Journey Together Ministries #Katie Newingham #Nichole Johnson
After her dad appeared on America’s Most Wanted, Nichole Johnson’s parents left town, abandoning her at the age of 11. Little Nichole, with blazing red [...]

Game Night Creates “Ohana”

#Grow Your Faith #small groups
Shaun and Jessica Key’s small group started from a casual, summer game night at their house. Forming a group for married couples wasn’t our intention,” [...]

Getting To My Father’s House

#Kidscoast #Make a Difference #North Charleston Campus
Every Sunday, I stand in a room full of kids from so many cultural backgrounds—all coming together as one body—worshipping, playing, and praying together. I [...]

God’s Amazing Provision In Missions

#Ann-Marie Rader #Global Missions #Make a Difference #Marney McNall #Medical Missions #Mission Trips #togo
Just before starting college, Ann-Marie Rader went on a Seacoast mission trip to Togo in West Africa—and it altered the direction of her life. Her [...]

God’s Power Revealed Through Stories at Chosen Conference

#Chosen #Discover Your Purpose #Sisterhood
Too often, inspiring stories of women living dangerously for God are shared only with a few friends and family. At the 2018 Chosen Women’s Conference [...]

Grateful for Moms More than Ever

#Covid-19 #Debby DeRosa #Gail Kirby #Grandmothers #Greenville Campus #Grow Your Faith #Kidscoast #Mother's Day #Seacoast At Home
Written from an interview with Gail Kirby, Seacoast Greenville Campus This Mother’s Day, we have even more reason to celebrate moms. During the current stay-at-home [...]

Have You Heard of the Holy Spirit?

#find god #Ghost Stories
When I chose to read Acts though—that was the beginning of an amazing journey into knowing God more fully through the Holy Spirit. 

Healing The Family Tree

#Baptism #care ministry #Celebrate Recovery #Discover Your Purpose #freedom #Local Missions #Make a Difference #North Charleston Campus #North Charleston Dream Center
Nikie knows the destructive pattern that generational drug and alcohol addiction can have on families. She saw the same addictions and habits pass from her [...]

Helping Military Families Find Home

#Make a Difference #Matt Benton #Military #small groups #Veterans Day
We’ve all heard, “freedom isn’t free.” I certainly grew up hearing that phrase in my hometown—a Midwestern, red-blooded farming community in Illinois. Even as a [...]

Hidden Figures Of Faith (Part 1)

#Black History Month #Diversity #Henry McNeal Turner #Hidden Figures #Jarena Lee #Undivided
Black History Month is a celebration, a month of remembrance and appreciation of Black history and culture. It is a time—a jumping off point, really—for [...]

Hidden Figures Of Faith (Part 2)

#Black History Month #Charles Octavius Boothe #Diversity #Henry McNeal Turner #Hidden Figures #Jarena Lee #Thomas Dorsey #Undivided
Black History Month is a celebration, a month of remembrance and appreciation of Black history and culture. It is a time—a jumping off point, really—for [...]

Hope Can Spring From Your Darkest Moments

#Depression #Inside Track #Make a Difference #serving in church #SEU #Sisterhood #small groups #Summerville campus
For several months, Josefina endured watching her tiny son breathe through a respirator in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). Initially his heart calmed when [...]

Hope of a Black Father

#Josh Hall #Make a Difference #Race Relations #racism
It’s freshman year. We’re walking down George Street on the way to the gym. I see a friend at work. We stop and walk in. [...]

How A Game Of Hoops Changed A Young Boy’s Life

#find god #myseacoaststory
From an interview with Dylan White. When I was 6 years old, I would go with my brother to play basketball on an outside court [...]

How Are You Dealing With Your Stress?

#coronavirus #exercise #Jenna Surratt #Sisterhood #stress #workout
Does the current state of the world have you feeling a little stressed? You are not alone. Whether it’s concern over the health of a [...]

How To Celebrate The Holidays With Your Kids After Divorce

#care ministry #Christmas #DivorceCare #Grow Your Faith #Sarah Wolf
When I was eleven, I knew it was the last Christmas that I’d spend with my parents in the same house together. As a child, [...]

How to Spend Your Spring Break

#Global Missions #Make a Difference #medical clinics #South Africa #sustainable projects #togo #water #wells
For anyone considering missions, you don’t need a particular skillset to go. There is always something for you to do.

I’m Singing

#Discover Your Purpose #Japan #Make a Difference #School of Worship
Guest post by Marabeth Duncan A storm brewed on the horizon as I sat at the top of the stairs that led down to the [...]

Is the Men’s Hike Really Life-Changing?

#find god #Marney McNall #Men's Hike #Men's Ministry
Back home in Germany, Thomas Giele and his family didn’t go to church often. “The shame is many Germans are losing their faith,” Thomas said. [...]

It Is Finished

#easter #find god #Good Friday #James Island
Good Friday tends to bring up lots of questions: How human was Jesus? How divine was he? Could he have avoided the pain? Is there [...]

It’s All About Perspective

#Josh Walters #Katie Walters #Make a Difference #Marriage #Perspective #Valentine's Day
When we got married in December of 2002, Katie was a guidance counselor and I was a youth pastor. I remember being so envious of [...]

I’ll Send You an Army

#Counseling #Depression #Grow Your Faith #Healing #Physical Trauma
“You are asking for one person to share your life, but I am not going to send just one to help carry your burden, I [...]

Leaving a Financial Legacy

#estate planning #financial planning #Make a Difference
Making a plan for your finances means peace of mind for you and your family and it’s a chance to determine part of your legacy, [...]

Lessons From A Daughter To Her Father

#Brian Lewis #Daughter #Father's Day #Fatherhood #Grow Your Faith #Men's Ministry
As Father’s Day approaches, I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about how my wife and I have prepared our daughter for adult life—especially [...]

Light On The Other Side Of Drug Addiction

#Alcohol Addiction #care #Celebrate Recovery #Drug Addiction #North Charleston Campus #North Charleston Dream Center #recovery #Rehab #rehabilitation
When the men broke into the New York City apartment, they pointed the gun at Karen’s mother, demanding money and drugs. But it was only [...]

Make A Difference

Seacoast Church exists to make a difference and we do so in many different ways. Through your generous donations, we are able to provide funding for [...]

Make A Difference At Homeless Warming Shelter This Winter

#Arthur W. Christopher Community Center #homeless #Local Missions #Make a Difference #Serve #Volunteer #Warming Center
When was the last time you were cold, like really cold?  For me, it was an October camping trip with friends. The sun was setting [...]

Making The Transition To The Most Unusual Summer

#Charlotte Cox #coronavirus #Kidscoast #Kidscoast At Home #Make a Difference #Reentry #Summer #Summerville campus
We all know summer 2020 is likely to be one of the most unusual ever. Normally in early spring, we start to fill our calendars [...]

MLK, The Man, The Myth, The Legend

#Dr. Martin Luther King #Grow Your Faith #Josh Hall
Today, we have the privilege of remembering and honoring Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.—one of those rare people who come along once in a [...]

Moving on Faith: Trusting God’s Next Step

#ARC #Dream Team #find god #Inside Track #Serving
It is scary to move into the unknown on faith; that’s why it is so hard.

Multiplying Generosity: Reverse Offering Sparks Wave Of Giving

#Generosity #Marney McNall #missions #Pastor Josh Surratt #Reverse Offering #The Blessed Life
When churches pass the plate, typically you don’t take out the money. But in late November, Seacoast asked you to do just that. They held [...]

My Not-So-Glamorous Spiritual Gifts

#Greenville Campus #Make a Difference #small groups
When I went through my Seacoast campus’s Inside Track program, I took a spiritual gifts test and discovered one of my gifts was administration. I [...]

Never Give Up

#addiction #Baptism #freedom #Marney McNall #North Charleston Campus #Serving
Walking through the doors of Seacoast’s North Charleston Campus for the first time, Cindy was on guard, nervous. Would she be accepted? She’d discovered early [...]

New Chapters

#Christmas At Seacoast #Grow Your Faith #Local Missions #Reverse Offering #Roy Jacques #Summerville campus #The Blessed Life
Nine long months. Nine months of sleepless nights, mornings not feeling well, and being tired all the time. For Mary, it must have felt like [...]

No Matter Where in the World

#Make a Difference
We believe every community in the world needs a life-giving church to thrive. In cooperation with our global partners in ten countries, we are dedicated [...]

No Temporary Miracles

#brain surgery #Healing #healing service #hydrocephalus #Lori Fitzgerald
My husband, Adam was born with hydrocephalus—excess water on the brain. When he was five months old, he had his first brain surgery where a [...]

Not Just A Number

#Grow Your Faith #myseacoaststory
Written from an interview with Kara Slick Majewski When my son Johnny was in elementary school, his friends invited him to Seacoast. He asked me [...]

Not Your Typical Couple

#Dream Team #Grow Your Faith #Marriage #Marriage Ministry #Tim Lindsay #Valentine's Day
Rebecca and I aren’t a lovey-dovey couple, who cuddle or hold hands. We aren’t experts in the 5 love languages; we don’t wear matching outfits; [...]

Of the 400 Mistakes I Make a Day, Which Ones Really Matter?

#find god #Grace #Jessica Fackler #Quarantine
Is anyone else feeling like they can’t do or say anything right these days, or is it just me? From navigating the suggested path through [...]

Our Foster Care Story

#foster care #Katie Newingham #Local Missions #Make a Difference
The call comes in the early morning hours. My heart beats fast as I see the number on my phone and suspect it’s the Department [...]

Quicksands of Racial Injustice

#Dr. Martin Luther King #Equality #Harmony #Jacqualye Dailey #Jr. #Quicksand #Race
“Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood.” ~ Dr. Martin Luther King, [...]

Rebuilding A Marriage While Serving Others

#Dream Team #Inside Track #Kidscoast #Marriage #Serve #Summerville campus
Krystal and Deon have been married for 10 years, but somewhere along the way, they realized they were losing each other. “We became kid-focused,” Krystal [...]

Redefining Greatness

#Discover Your Purpose #G.O.A.T
Here’s the root of our problem: We have the wrong definition of “greatness.” Jesus was a master at subverting the culture around him and forcing [...]

Relationships Can Be Hard, But This One’s Different

#Bible #Common Ground #find god #Love #prayer #relationships
Imagine you’re out with a friend one day and they announce that they’ve fallen in love. “That’s great!” you say, “who are they, what are [...]

Relief Efforts Continue

#Giving #Make a Difference
Irma is long gone but her effects will be felt for weeks and months to come. We are committed to helping those who have been [...]

Relief In The Midst Of A Storm

#Hurricane Florence #Make a Difference #Seacoast Conway
This past September, Hurricane Florence took its time crossing the Carolinas, dropping record levels of rain. In the hurricane’s wake, rivers continued to rise for [...]

Replacing What You’ve Lost

#Make a Difference #Make A Difference In The Community
She thought she’d lost everything, but God replaced it with so much more.

ReStart Launches Webinar Series To Help With Career Transistion

#career transition #Discover Your Purpose #networking #ReStart #ReStart Career Conference #resume #Richard Sykora #webinar
A career transition can be life-changing…and stressful. But, you don’t have to go through it alone. Recent global events have really forced us to reflect [...]

Restoring Identity

#find god #Pastor Josh Surratt #Restoration
This past weekend, we started a new series, called Restoration. We serve a God who restores, a God who can take broken people and make [...]

Restoring More Than A Home

#Conway #easter #Make a Difference
As Hurricane Florence dropped record levels of rain on the Carolinas in September 2018, Dean and Katie French found themselves rescued from their home by [...]

Resurfacing

#find god #Global Missions #Grow Your Faith #Haiti
Guest post by Maggie Robinson I have gone on three mission trips to Morency, Haiti since last summer. Every time I’ve traveled there, I returned [...]

Returning Home

#Grow Your Faith
At Seacoast, part of our mission is to help people find God. Our attendees continue to imagine a future where we can offer as many [...]

Reversing A Relapse

#Celebrate Recovery #custom #find god #SEU #summer camp
As soon as her dad dropped her off at church and his car turned the corner, Kayla, then in middle school, would leave to go [...]

Saving a Life

#custom #Discover Your Purpose #Make a Difference #manning
It was called Dead Man’s Curve—a sharp bend in the road on the outskirts of Sumter, South Carolina. Nichole had driven it countless times. She [...]

Seacoast Stories: A Recipe for Family

#Christmas #Make a Difference #Serving #Single Moms
As we get to know each other,” says MaryChris, “we see every woman’s individual personality—who she is beyond the title, ‘mom’.

Seacoast Worship Releases “Greater”

#Ephesians 3:20 #Greater #Seacoast Worship
Since the early days of Seacoast, Ephesians 3:20 has been the closing benediction for every service. “Now to him who is able to do immesaurably [...]

Seth’s Story Of Healing

#Conway #Grow Your Faith #Healing #Miracle Service
The afternoon of our first healing service in January, campus pastors were introduced to Joshua Silverberg and Wes Pickering, who would lead the service that night. After [...]

Slow Down: How to Live Freely and Lightly

#Gratitude #Jenna Surratt #Mount Pleasant Campus #Rest #Sisterhood #Slow
With the pace of the world quickly intensifying again, how do we stay in places of peace and rest in the Lord? How do we [...]

Super Bloom: It’s Time to Flourish

#desert #Grow Your Faith #growth #Pastor Josh Surratt #Series #Super Bloom
Is there anyone on the planet who is NOT happy to see 2020 go? For many of us, it has been a hard year personally, [...]

Surviving The Holidays After Loss

#Griefshare #Grow Your Faith #Make a Difference
Repost from 2017 - Last year I was facing the holidays as a widow, and “survival” help was what I desperately needed.

The Audition That Changed A Life

#Ballet #Chosen #find god #The Thorn
We can all be dangerous—in a good way. We are all called to fight for what we believe in. What that looks like for each [...]

The Best Job You’ve Ever Had

#Career #Discover Your Purpose #ReStart Conference
What is the best job you’ve ever had? If it’s the one you have now, congratulations—that sounds amazing! For the rest of us, the best [...]

The Courageous First Step To Restoration

#find god #Restoration
Before I came to Seacoast Church, I was buried in shame, hurt, and insecurity. I had many labels for myself. But I kept returning weekly, [...]

The Enemy And the Hero Of Your Unwritten Story

#Discover Your Purpose #Unwritten
I have an enemy. Someone (something) that haunts me, that waits for me every time I open my laptop. This might seem like a strange [...]

The Impact of e3 Mentoring 

#Baptism #Chandler Moore #Custom Summer Camp #e3 #e3 Mentoring Program #Jill Forbes #Make a Difference #Mount Pleasant Campus #North Charleston Campus
by Jill Forbes and Chanler Moore While providing meals to teenage boys at the Seacoast Church North Charleston Campus ten years ago, Pastor Sam Lesky [...]

The Last Supper

#Communion #easter #Grow Your Faith #Last Supper #Passover #Response Time
This Easter season has a different feel to it, doesn’t it? Uncertainty has a way of making us look at our lives differently. But is [...]

The Miraculous Blessings of Prayerful Healing

#Ghost Stories #Grow Your Faith #Healing #myseacoaststory #prayer
Adapted from an interview with Micah Nichols Believing in God is to believe in the supernatural. So why do we often doubt God’s intervention in [...]

The Missing Piece to Changing Hearts

#Make a Difference #Where's The Love
Where’s the Love? When love is missing, we know it. We see the results—the pain, anger, and fear that lead to loneliness, depression, and division. [...]

The Power Of Camp

#Custom Students #summer camp
Power of Camp Four days. What if that’s all it takes for something to happen that you’ve been praying for, maybe for a long time? [...]

The Promise At The End of A Christmas Song

I hear Christmas songs playing in the coffee shop, retail store, brewery, and tire shop. Everywhere I go. I’m not complaining—I love hearing them. But [...]

The Risk of Community

#Community #Discover Your Purpose #Small Group
We weren’t created to go through life alone and being a part of God’s family means that we never have to.

The Unexpected Joys of Fatherhood

#Father's Day #find god #Grace #Love
Happy Father’s Day to all the dads out there! Being a dad comes with a lot of surprises and we wanted to share some thoughts [...]

The Unrecognized Sides of Prejudice

#biracial #Grow Your Faith #Unity #Where's The Love
Sometimes we don’t realize the assumptions we make, the stereotypes we blindly accept, the divisions we create. In our Where’s the Love? series, we are [...]

Time Around and Under the Table

#Christmas #Family #Grief #loss #Marney McNall #relationships #small groups
Rejoice with those who rejoice; mourn with those who mourn. Romans 12:15 Only a few hours earlier, we’d finished digging his grave, the shovel scraping [...]

Time to Renovate

#Grow Your Faith #Prayer and Fasting
I’m having a hard time concentrating. My husband is cutting out the fiberglass tub surround in the downstairs bathroom as I write (well, try to [...]

Togo Village Experiences Clean Water For First Time

#Make a Difference #Seacoast Missions
As we headed into the village of Gadassoukope in Togo, West Africa, we passed a woman walking on the roadside with a baby on her [...]

Trusting God With His Money

#Aaron LaFalce #Asheville Campus #Giving #Money #The Blessed Life #Tithe #Worship
I remember a time when there never seemed to be enough money. It’s not that my wife and I were in poverty or had this [...]

Unraveling The Truth

#Grow Your Faith
In 2008, I only came to Charleston to help my parents move and get settled in. I was ready to go home, having been sick [...]

Use A Mirror To Reveal Truths In Your Marriage

#Bob DiCosola #Covid-19 #Johns Island Campus #Marriage Ministry #Re|engage #Unshakeable
It’s easy to point a finger at your spouse and wish they would change their irritating behaviors. And right now, for a lot of people, [...]

We Are All Part of a Symphony

#find god #James Island Campus #Robbie Madison #Seacoast Music #Seacoast Worship #Symphony #Undivided #Unity
When the baton hits the ictus, all barriers fall. You may ask what an ictus is. Well, it is the imaginary point at the bottom [...]

Weathering the Storm in Puerto Rico

#disaster relief #Global Missions #Make a Difference #Puerto Rico
The camera crews have left, but recovering from the devastation of Hurricane Maria will take years. Ali Morales tells us what it’s like having family [...]

What Are You Doing For Others?

#Make a Difference #MLK #Serve
Make it a Day ON, Not a Day Off! Did you know Martin Luther King, Jr Day is the only federal holiday designated as one [...]

What Can We Make Of The Present When We Compare It With The Past?

#Grow Your Faith #Seacoast Vintage
When I walk through the halls of Seacoast, I walk through memories. They live in the rooms, sit in the chairs, waiting for me to [...]

What Do I Tell My Kids About COVID-19?

#Charlotte Cox #Covid-19 #Family #Grow Your Faith #Kidscoast #Memories #ParentCue #Seacoast At Home
At the top of my journal/planner today, I wrote “Peace, Be Still.” As a mom of four kids in elementary, middle and high school, I [...]

What I Didn’t Expect as a Mom

#Grow Your Faith #Mother's Day
Happy Mother’s Day! We would like to honor all the moms out there by sharing a few of their voices, their hearts…and their experiences—the small [...]

What Teens Read

#books #Christian novels #Summer Reading #teen reading
Many mainstream books for teens today center on extraordinarily gifted characters. The thing is, these characters usually defeat the villain by finding strength inside themselves, [...]

What To Do When You’re Praying For A Miracle, But You Have To…Go

#Church Online #Daniel Floyd #head injury #Healing #Marney McNall #prayer #Response Time #Tracy Kerr #Worship
Written from an interview with Tracy Kerr The beauty of the mountains covered in glinting pristine powder made Tracy Kerr forget how treacherous the slopes [...]

What To Get A Single Mom For Mother’s Day

#Make a Difference #Mother's Day #North Charleston Campus
Mother’s Day. For many, it evokes the sweet notion of precious children and a doting husband, breakfast in bed, homemade cards, and the perfect brunch [...]

What’s God Saying To You?

#Candles #Cross #find god #Grow Your Faith #offering #prayer #Response Time #tithes
WHAT IS RESPONSE TIME? One of the things that makes worship at Seacoast a powerful experience is Response Time. Every service at every Seacoast campus [...]

What’s Going On At Seacoast?

That’s certainly a common question that I’m asked regularly these days. The easy answer is that God seems to be at work. But honestly, God [...]

When God Wakes You From A Dream

#College/20s #Kidscoast #Local Missions #Make a Difference #Sarah Wolf
Waking up one morning in her dorm room at Clemson University, Rachel D’Hoore told her roommate, “It’s going to happen, mark this day down!” Overnight, [...]

When Plans Change

#Anxiety #At Home #Change #Church Online #control #Disciples #easter #Good News #Grow Your Faith #Hope #Jim Fleming #Manning Campus #pandemic #stress
Easter feels a little different this year, as we all plan to celebrate at home, rather than gather under one roof. Even though we can’t [...]

When We Want to Ask Why

#Grow Your Faith
Yes, I was praying for God to save him, but the thought that kept going through my mind was ‘Please don’t let this cause me [...]

When You Step Off the Sidelines

#Debby DeRosa #Dream Team #Greenville Campus #Inside Track #Sisterhood
When Sean and Christie McMillan started attending Seacoast Greenville in 2015, they started with simply enjoying what the church offered them. Christie says, “We would [...]

Why Haven’t I Heard About Them Before? How Hidden Figures Came To Be

#At The Movies #Discover Your Purpose #Hidden Figures #Marney McNall #NASA
A “computer” used to be a person—not a machine.  Margot Lee Shetterley first got the idea to write the book, Hidden Figures when she learned [...]

Why I Came Back to Church

#find god #Kidscoast #Serve
If you didn’t count the mandatory masses at my Catholic school, I hadn’t gone to church in over a year. My friend Taylor had tried [...]

You Make Me Brave

#breast cancer #cancer #care #Discover Your Purpose #Make a Difference
I told them not to call me. I didn’t want to hear the news on my birthday—alone in a hotel room in Boston. Instead I [...]