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It was my privilege to serve as the presiding officer for the UPPER SOUTH CAROLINA ANNUAL CONFERENCE Session, May 21st, 2011.

The Conference was hosted in the Tabernacle of the Upper South Carolina Conference Campgrounds, Beech Springs, South Carolina.

When the Annual Session convened on Saturday we had a registration of 232 delegates in addition to visitors in attendance.

Ministerial Credentials were issued as follows:

Ordination (9) –

REV. BRENDA ARNOLD
REV. JOSEPH BOATWRIGHT
REV. KELLY FRANCIS
REV. TERESA FREE
REV. CHRISTINA LANGLEY
REV. SCOTT LOLLIS
REV. DAVID SANDERFORD
REV. DORIS SEASE
REV. WANDA WHITE

License (5) –

REV. BILL KELLY
REV. ZACH METTS
REV. FRANK MUPENDA
REV. JEFF WEAVER
REV. MIRANDA WEAVER

THE CONFERENCE IN SESSION MEMORIALIZED THE FOLLOWING:

MRS. MARGARET WEBB
REV. GARY ARNOLD

It was an honor as the Presiding Officer to recognize the following Conference attendees:

REV. RONALD Q. MOORE, former Conference Superintendent & General Evangelism USA Division Council Member
REV. RAY & WANDA BUCHANAN, former Conference Superintendent
REV. JOHN INGHAM, former Conference Superintendent, Georgia Conference
DR. G. EARL BEATTY, Vice-President for Academic Affairs, Holmes Bible College
MR. BRIAN JAMES, Vice-President for Development, Emmanuel College
REV. BOB RUSSO, General Men’s Ministries Board Member
REV. DAVID RICHARDSON, JR., Conference Discipleship Ministries Director
MS. DONNA LANCE, Secretary to Bishop Boggs & Conference Secretary/Treasurer. [Ms. Lance needs to teach the class on how to prepare Presiding Officers for their annual Presiding assignments. She is simply awesome!]

On August 21st, 2010, [less than nine months ago] Bishop Boggs was elected to serve as the ninth Conference Superintendent of the Upper South Carolina Conference. To have heard his State of the Conference Report one would have thought that he was completing his first term of service rather than his ninth month of service. Bishop Boggs delivered a report that gave attendees an honest assessment of their current condition while speaking optimistically and even prophetically about their future. His sense of courage, wisdom and maturity were what you would expect from a veteran not a “rookie” Superintendent. One of the observations that I made while seated on the platform and taking note of the activities around me was that the ministry team [both Executive Council members and Conference Ministry Directors] he has surrounded himself with is as optimistic about their future as he is. They really appear to be “banded together” in vision, spirit and purpose! Bishop Boggs consented to my attaching a copy of his Report to this COB News Release. It is a “model” State of the Conference Report.



The Annual Conference Session Agenda also included the signing of the IPHC Centennial Covenant by all USC senior pastors and Executive Council members. I honor Bishop Boggs for his desire to have the members of the Upper South Carolina Conference to make covenant with leaders across the IPHC by affixing their signature to this historic document.



Ray and Karen represent the future, not only of the Upper South Carolina Conference, but also the IPHC. They are exceptionally well-grounded and confident that God, who has begun a good work in them, will bring it to completion!



May every benefit and gift that comes from God our Heavenly Father, be graced on Bishop Ray and Karen Boggs, as well as their family, as they provide vision and leadership for our extended family members in the Upper South Carolina Conference.



Bishop Boggs ended his State of the Conference address by asking the members of his Conference “To Pray, to Work and to Dream with him…” I determined that I also would covenant and dream with him so that “every person within the Upper South Carolina Conference will obtain the ENTIRE INHERITANCE that God has for them.”