Seacoast Stories: Discover Your Purpose
A Legacy Of Risers: Reflecting On The Impact Of Black History
#Black History Month #Diversity #Maya Angelou #Natasha Gray #Natasha Simmons #Poetry #Seacoast Music #Still I Rise #WorshipFriends, I’m Natasha Simmons, affectionately known as “Natasha Gray.” I’m a Christian Singer/Songwriter who has been a part of Seacoast Church since 2008. I get [...]
A Memorable Phone Call
#Discover Your Purpose #myseacoaststoryWritten from an interview with Julie Hiott. In 1988, I was one of 16,000 who received a call from Seacoast asking whether I went to [...]
An Unexpected Friendship Becomes An Answer To Prayer
#Luke 14 #Make a Difference #Won By WonAfter 22 years of working as a caregiver for individuals with special needs, Lorrie Corr felt the pull to leave that career, so she could [...]
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 [...]
Beat of Her Own Drum
#Amanda Niswonder #Columbia Campus #Discover Your Purpose #Sue Stevens #Worship #Worship TeamIn 1953, three-year-old Sue Stevens heard the parade’s booming drums coming closer. “I lived for them until they got there and died after they left,” [...]
Better Late Than Never
#ARC #Chip Judd #Counseling #Discover Your Purpose #Greg Surratt #Retreat At Church Creek #Seacoast Bookstore #The Endurance FactorHave you ever asked someone to do something and then regretted it? I’ve known for about 20 years that I’m supposed to write a book—or [...]
Cancer Survivor Finds Purpose In Encouraging Others
#cancer #Cancer Survivor #Chemotherapy #Find Your Purpose #Kidscoast #Make a Difference #Sarah WolfAfter months of grueling cancer treatments, Michael is on a mission to use his experience to encourage others going through cancer.
Chasing The Right Career Path
#Beth Andrews #Career #ReStart ConferenceWhen I took a seat in the Worship Center one Sunday, the pre-service video about the ReStart Career Conference immediately caught my attention. Are [...]
Does God Care If You Like Your Job?
#Career #Discover Your Purpose #ReStart ConferenceWhat if your job satisfaction was directly related to how God uniquely wired you? Would that change the way you think about your career? Would [...]
Eyes to See
#africa #battles to breakthrough #care ministry #Discover Your Purpose #missions #togoby Christie Michaud TOGO, West Africa – The heat was intense. In a foreign land, I sat under the few trees I could find for [...]
Faithful Small Group Leader Says “See You Later” After Eleven Years
#custom #Graduation #High School #Jon Hohm #Kidscoast #Sandra Connell #Sarah Wolf #Small Group #summer campFor 11 years, Sandra Connell has faithfully led the same girls’ small group at Seacoast Church. She has been with the girls since they were [...]
Father’s Day: Finding Work/Life Balance
#Anxiety #Bryan Hill #Cane Bay #Father's Day #Kidscoast #SummervilleWhen the world shut down in 2020, I remember working even more vigorously than I had before, missing moments with my kids who were only [...]
Father’s Day: Take the Time
#Asheville Campus #Custom Students #Father's Day #Teddy Winter #TeenagerOften, I hear folks dreading their children heading into the teenage years. They are so anxious and scared; they’ll tell me how they just know [...]
God’s Power Revealed Through Stories at Chosen Conference
#Chosen #Discover Your Purpose #SisterhoodToo 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 [...]
Healing The Family Tree
#Baptism #care ministry #Celebrate Recovery #Discover Your Purpose #freedom #Local Missions #Make a Difference #North Charleston Campus #North Charleston Dream CenterNikie knows the destructive pattern that generational drug and alcohol addiction can have on families. She saw the same addictions and habits pass from her [...]
I’m Singing
#Discover Your Purpose #Japan #Make a Difference #School of WorshipGuest post by Marabeth Duncan A storm brewed on the horizon as I sat at the top of the stairs that led down to the [...]
Memorial Day: A Time To Reflect On Sacrifice
#Agent Orange #Blaze Gillespie #care ministry #Columbia Campus #Counseling #Grief #Marney McNall #Memorial Day #Military #PTSD #Sacrifice #Veteran #VietnamGreater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. John 15:13 On Memorial Day, we honor and mourn those [...]
Overcoming Addiction
#addiction #Celebrate Recovery #Chip Judd #cycles #Giants #Goliath #Goliath Must Fall #HabitsIs there an addiction you’ve been dealing with for a long time? Do you feel like you’re facing a giant—a Goliath—in your life? Goliath was [...]
Redefining Greatness
#Discover Your Purpose #G.O.A.THere’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 [...]
ReStart Launches Webinar Series To Help With Career Transistion
#career transition #Discover Your Purpose #networking #ReStart #ReStart Career Conference #resume #Richard Sykora #webinarA 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 [...]
Saving a Life
#custom #Discover Your Purpose #Make a Difference #manningIt 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 [...]
Shine a Light on Integrity
#Discover Your Purpose #Make a Difference “I was an ordinary cop with an extraordinary cause. My cause is constant – to unearth corruption and shine a light on integrity,” – [...]
Strength In Numbers: An Invitation To Find Friends
#Connect Weekend #Jack Hoey #Series #small groups #Strength In NumbersWhen we think of the phrase “strength in numbers” we think of a crowd. An army, even. We imagine the power of the masses coming [...]
Summerville Campus Begins ASL Classes
#ASL #Chelsie Hill #Deaf Community #Discover Your Purpose #Dream Team #Kidscoast #Lori Harrison #Summerville campus #Won By OneOur “yes” to God’s call is greater than anything we set out to do on our own. Lori Harrison, the Kidscoast Preschool Director from the [...]
Take the Inside Track at Seacoast
#Discover Your Purpose #Dream Team #Inside TrackInside Track (noun): a position of advantage /ˈinˌsīd ˌtrak/the inner, shorter track of a course We want to give you every advantage in getting connected. [...]
The Best Job You’ve Ever Had
#Career #Discover Your Purpose #ReStart ConferenceWhat 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 Enemy And the Hero Of Your Unwritten Story
#Discover Your Purpose #UnwrittenI 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 Key To Peace, Joy, And Love Could Be Right Around The Corner
#Discover Your Purpose #Local Missions #Make a Difference #missions #Serve Day #Small GroupAt 24 years old, I found myself settling for a job that felt safe, yet what I really longed for was adventure. When a college [...]
The Other Side of This
#Adam Erickson #Confidence #I'm Fine (Not Really) #identity #inadequacy #Mental Health #self worthWhen I turned in the film project, I was proud of it—really proud. I had worked hard. A few hours later, I wasn’t proud anymore. [...]
The Risk of Community
#Community #Discover Your Purpose #Small GroupWe weren’t created to go through life alone and being a part of God’s family means that we never have to.
The Valuable Treasure Of A Dad Joke
#Dads #Discover Your Purpose #Father's Day #Fathers #Jack HoeyThis Father’s Day, let’s honor the men who pour into the lives of their sons and daughters as only they can. Yes, mothers are crucial [...]
The Wrong Path Made Right
#addiction #Discover Your Purpose #Marney McNall #Nick Walker #Summerville campus“I thought God just made me a bad person,” Nick Walker said. “I thought he gave me this weakness from birth. Even in high school, [...]
What Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Can Teach Us About A Complete Life
#Discover Your Purpose #Dr. Martin Luther King #Jr. Martin Luther King #MLK Day #UnityJanuary not only marks the start of a new year, but it’s also when many of us will set new goals, begin new lifestyles, start [...]
What Teens Read
#books #Christian novels #Summer Reading #teen readingMany mainstream books for teens today center on extraordinarily gifted characters. The thing is, these characters usually defeat the villain by finding strength inside themselves, [...]
Why Haven’t I Heard About Them Before? How Hidden Figures Came To Be
#At The Movies #Discover Your Purpose #Hidden Figures #Marney McNall #NASAA “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 [...]
You Make Me Brave
#breast cancer #cancer #care #Discover Your Purpose #Make a DifferenceI 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 [...]