Seacoast Stories: Grow Your Faith

21 Days Without Screens

#21 Days Of Prayer and Fasting #fasting #Grow Your Faith #Kristin Mabry #Live #screen time #Simplify
I love the newness and beauty of a new year, reflecting on the past and assigning vision to the next. In what moments in the last [...]

3 Tips for Understanding What Jesus Said

#Grow Your Faith #Jesus Said
You look down, read the text message your significant other sent, and thought to yourself, “What does THAT mean?”

35 Years At Seacoast: A Seacoast Story

#35 Years At Seacoast #Grow Your Faith #Legacy #Pastor Greg Surratt #Seacoast Church
I’ll never forget the feelings that I had on that first Sunday morning. We had been meeting for several months, about 50 of us, in [...]

A Life Profoundly Lived — Remembering Corrie ten Boom 

#Corrie ten Boom #Elizabeth Reppard #Forgiveness #Grow Your Faith #womens history month
In honor of Women’s History Month, we’d like to honor a life profoundly lived—that of Corrie ten Boom. During World War II, when Nazi forces [...]

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 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 [...]

And They Lived Happily Ever After…

#Dianna Kirkpatrick #Grow Your Faith #Marriage #Re|engage #Rick Kirkpatrick #small groups #Valentine's Day
When you began your relationship, did you think life together was going to be just like the fairy tales? Are you living the happily ever [...]

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, [...]

Can You Really Trust God?

#Can You Trust God #Grow Your Faith #Trust God
When you get right down to it, we don’t really think God knows us, and we aren’t sure he knows what’s best for us.

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. [...]

Connect Weekend: Zoe’s Story

#Connect #Connect Weekend #Grow Your Faith #ISO #relationships #small groups
Zoe hopes her new apartment becomes a place of rest for her women’s small group. For the past six months, Zoe has worked to rebuild [...]

Dealing With Difficult People (You know…like you and me.)

#Chip Judd #Grow Your Faith #Holidays #relationships
If possible, so far as it depends on you, be at peace with all men. ~ Romans 12:18 Each person must be responsible for himself. [...]

Deborah’s Story Of Healing

#Grow Your Faith #Healing #miracle
I’ve been searching for a way to put into words the significance of January 23, 2019. Simply put: Miracles still happen. I’m living proof. In [...]

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.”

Don’t Let Learning Challenges Stop You from Connecting with God

#Bible #Bible App #Bible Study #Grow Your Faith #prayer #Seacoast Church
It is often taught that studying the Bible and spending time in prayer and worship are the best ways to connect with God. While these [...]

Family is Messy, and That’s OK. Here’s why:

#Family #Grow Your Faith #This Is Us
I remember very clearly the day my illusions about my family were shattered forever.

Father’s Day: Revealing The Kryptonite Of Fatherhood

#Father's Day #Grow Your Faith #Our Team #Seacoast Staff #small groups
Dads are strong. They might even appear resilient, and more often than not, they look like superheroes to their children. But even the best dads [...]

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 [...]

Finding Breakthrough With Community

#Connect Weekend #Grow Your Faith #small groups
During a dark season in Zach and Megan’s lives, they began to look for a church with an authentic and transparent feel. At the time, [...]

For Those We Haven’t Met Yet

#Grow Your Faith #Imagine #myseacoaststory
What did your life look like 20 years ago? Were you about to get a driver’s license? Still in college? Starting a family? Chances are [...]

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,” [...]

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 [...]

Grow Your Faith While Exploring The Holy Land

#Grow Your Faith #Israel Trip
Join Seacoast Churc for a study program in Israel designed for those who want to discover the roots of our faith and deepen their study of [...]

Healing Your Relationship with Your Mother As An Adult

#Grow Your Faith #Healing #Jessica Fackler #Love #Mother's Day #Parenting
Mother’s Day has been a bittersweet holiday for most of my life. I’m thrilled to receive the handmade cards and garden bouquets from my own [...]

How Do We Make The Supernatural Become Natural?

#Ghost Stories #Grow Your Faith
When we read stories or see art from the ancient world or the middle ages, it often looks fantastical. Mythical beasts, demons, and angels are [...]

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 Have an All-in Marriage

#Grow Your Faith #Marriage #Marriage Ministry #Pastor Josh Walters #Re|engage #small groups
Often when we see an obstacle that scares us, we try to avoid it. But when we avoid a problem, all we are really doing [...]

Imagine Seacoast

#Greg Surratt #Grow Your Faith #Imagine Seacoast
As cement is poured and walls begin to go up, the Imagine vision is finally taking shape.

Immeasurably More

#Ephesians 3:20 #Grow Your Faith #Sisterhood #Sisterhood Hike #Tiffin Lamoreaux
“I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may [...]

Inspiring Mother’s Day Stories Of Challenges and Rewards

#autism #blended families #foster care #Grow Your Faith #mom #mother #Mother's Day #Sisterhood #stepmom
This Mother’s Day, Seacoast celebrates the gift of motherhood and highlights moms on different parenting paths. Read how a mom of a child with autism, [...]

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 [...]

Learn to Fight Well – Takeaways From The Revive Marriage Conference

#Bryan Hill #Chelsie Hill #Conflict #Grow Your Faith #Marriage #Marriage Ministry #Revive Marriage Conference #small groups #Summerville campus
Pastor Bryan and Chelsie Hill share what they learned at the Revive Marriage Conference, and how couples can "start small" to begin loving each other [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 On Your Own

#Connect Weekend #Grow Your Faith #Johns Island Campus
When David Sohns was diagnosed with cancer, he and his wife Erin shared the news through tears with their Seacoast Johns Island family. They were [...]

Not Really an Empath

#Counseling #Couples #Empathy #Grow Your Faith #Jeremy Black #Marriage #Married
For the longest time, I perceived that empathy was the ability to feel what other people feel. In fact, my relationship with my wife, Julie, [...]

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; [...]

Our Foster Care Story

#foster care #Greenville Campus #Grow Your Faith #Local Missions
After our daughter, Karsyn, turned 6, my husband, Zack, and I were ready to expand our family. Shortly after, we were excited to find out [...]

Out Of The Mouth Of Babes

#find god #Grow Your Faith #kids
Last week we were having dinner and recapping our days when my 7 year-old son, Miles, announced that he needed my advice on something. At [...]

Praying For A Miracle – Kevin and Amy’s Story

#Amy Slater #easter #Grow Your Faith #Healing #Kevin Slater #miracle #prayer
December 7, 2021  An ordinary morning.   A 5:00 a.m. start and a shower, as usual—until…  as the steaming water fell on Kevin’s shoulders, his heart [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

She Is There

#find god #Grow Your Faith
John and Lorri’s Story A husband grieves, and hopes, as his wife battles cancer and comes to terms with her Savior.

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 Importance of Connection

#Columbia Campus #Grow Your Faith #Small Group
Sometimes it seems like no one could possibly understand what you’re going through—but then you join a small group. God is a pro at bringing [...]

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 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 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 Dandelions Can Teach You About Parenting

#Children #custom #Grow Your Faith #Kidscoast #NextGen #NextGen Weekend #Parenting #Serve #Terri Stuckey
It’s spring! I love the burst of new leaves on the trees and the smell of jasmine in the air here in the Carolinas. But [...]

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 To Do When You Face Divine Delays

#Delays #Grow Your Faith #Josh Surratt
Lead Pastor Josh Surratt shares a little history on Paul’s time in Caesarea and some perspective on tackling the divine delays in your own life.

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 [...]

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 [...]

Why Does Jesus Speak First to a Woman on Easter? 

#easter #Easter At Seacoast #Grow Your Faith #Healing #Jesus #Marney McNall #Mary Magdalene #resurrection #women of the bible #womens history #womens history month
All but one of the disciples had fled, fearing for their lives. Only John and a few women stayed with Jesus as he was crucified [...]

Worship Center Construction to Begin

#Grow Your Faith #Josh Surratt #new building