Pat A. Bishop of Greer has written a six-part Bible study that zeroes in on specific words found in the Scriptures: gentleness, servanthood, humility, speech and trust. “God’s Words Are Something Special” (CourierPublishing, $10.95) is designed to be effective across a wide spectrum of groups — men, women, singles and youth. The book draws on […]
Writer: Mary Jean Baxley Christians United for Israel sponsored Jerusalem Day May 28 at First Baptist North Spartanburg and Brookland Baptist Church in West Columbia. More than 250 attended the Spartanburg breakfast event. Mike Hamlet, pastor of First Baptist North Spartanburg, said the time spent with Ron Dermer, Israeli ambassador to the U.S., and Sen. […]
Jack W. Hester, associate pastor and staff evangelist at City View First Baptist Church in Greenville, will hold a tent crusade in the Conestee community near Mauldin beginning April 27 at 2:30 p.m. The location of the tent marks the spot where Hester played baseball for the textile mill league as a young man more […]
M. Earl Lee has fond memories of growing up in a cotton mill village, and he shares them in a new book: “The Gayle” (CourierPublishing, 105 pages, $12.95). Subtitled “A Personal Account of Living on a Cotton Mill Village in Upstate South Carolina,” Lee takes readers on a journey back to the years surrounding World […]
Speaking for the second time in less than 100 days at Brigham Young University, Southern Baptist leader R. Albert Mohler Jr. told students and faculty at the school, “We may go to jail sooner even than we thought,” recalling his concern about the threat to religious liberty raised in an earlier appearance at the Mormon-owned […]
Eight South Carolina residents were among more than 150 students who received degrees Dec. 13 during commencement ceremonies at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, N.C. Recipients, and degrees, included: Pamela Catoe Moore of St. Matthews and Jeremy McMahan of Belton, master of arts in biblical counseling; Ansley Renee Junkins of Anderson, master of […]
During the opening week of the football season at North Greenville University, after evangelist R.V. Brown spoke to the team, 13 players prayed to receive Christ as Savior. That experience “sparked” something in senior punter Jacob Buckley’s heart, who for a couple of years had been holding a Bible study in the house he shared […]
A North Greenville University student who died Oct. 10 after falling while hiking near a steep waterfall is being remembered by staff and students as a warm and gregarious person who “touched so many for Christ” during his life and in the days following his death. Brent Elrod, 20, of Piedmont, was a Christian studies […]
Editor’s note: On March 19, 2011, 6-year-old Benji Easler of Gaffney died when an amusement train ride derailed and overturned at a Spartanburg public park. Benji’s parents, Dwight and Tabitha Easler, along with his two brothers, Seth and Matthew, were injured, as were other members of Corinth Baptist Church in Gaffney, where Dwight serves as […]
Monet Heyward loves to see college students “get it and run with it” — that is, understand the essence of the gospel and take it to their friends, family and churches. That passion, born out of her own experience when she was a student at Francis Marion University, fuels her new work as campus minister […]