Never been poor, until now

Many formerly middle-income Greenville residents now find themselves seeking help to pay the bills.

JANUARY 24, 2010 10:11 a.m. (0)

It took Mark Davis and Donna Stolba about six months to join the ranks of the newly poor in Greenville.

Their story, say social workers, is depressingly familiar.  Continue reading...

 

United Ministries' poverty tour, it changes lives

JULY 27, 2010 7:33 a.m. (0)

From the window of a 10-passenger van, life can move by pretty fast.

For Reggie Ellison, the view from her seat on the United Ministries Poverty Tour slowed it to a halt.  Continue reading...

 

Giving back

It fills the heart of our community

NOVEMBER 29, 2010 1:50 p.m. (0)

A Spartanburg County schoolteacher recently walked into the Total Ministries office, but this time he didn’t have a donation.

He needed help to pay for a prescription. He told Total Ministries executive director Karen Bradley when his wife was laid off, they lost their company health insurance. The higher cost of insurance made it impossible to pay for the medicine.

“They have this look in their eyes of such brokenness,” she said.  Continue reading...