Seacoast Stories: Discover Your Purpose

A Better Life

#Discover Your Purpose #find god
From an orphanage, to seeing God’s love in a forever family, Sara Jenkin’s experiences the better life she had only heard about.

A Memorable Phone Call

#Discover Your Purpose #myseacoaststory
Written 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 [...]

A Truckload of Kindness

#Discover Your Purpose #Giving #Irma #Make a Difference #Relief Work
This generous act of kindness and our team’s dedication made a big difference for a family who experienced so much destruction.

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 Team
In 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 Factor
Have 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 [...]

Does God Care If You Like Your Job?

#Career #Discover Your Purpose #ReStart Conference
What 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 #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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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,” – [...]

Summerville Campus Begins ASL Classes

#ASL #Chelsie Hill #Deaf Community #Discover Your Purpose #Dream Team #Kidscoast #Lori Harrison #Summerville campus #Won By One
Our “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 Track
Inside 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 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 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 Key To Peace, Joy, And Love Could Be Right Around The Corner

#Discover Your Purpose #Local Missions #Make a Difference #missions #Serve Day #Small Group
At 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 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 Valuable Treasure Of A Dad Joke

#Dads #Discover Your Purpose #Father's Day #Fathers #Jack Hoey
This 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 #Unity
January 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]