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 […]
Charleston Southern University’s annual SYNC conference will be March 20 in the Whitfield Center for Christian Leadership. “SYNC ’14 offers insight and inspiration at the cross-section of theory and practice,” said Rick Brewer, vice president for student affairs and athletics. “Pastors, pastoral staff and marketplace leaders will be challenged and encouraged to stretch their visions […]
South Carolina Woman’s Missionary Union has announced the 2014-2015 nominees for executive board positions and the 2015 nominees for nominating committee positions. Election of executive board members will take place March 21 during the WMU annual meeting at Calvary Baptist Church in Florence. Nominations for the executive board are made by the nominating committee, which […]
South Carolina Baptists were $1.14 million shy of funding the state convention budget in 2013, marking the fourth budget shortfall in the last five years. Budget receipts from churches totaled $27,458,991, about 4 percent below the $28.6 million targeted in the SCBC spending plan. The state convention budget, which is supported primarily through Cooperative Program […]
Roland Dry Jr. has been called as senior pastor of Orchard Street Baptist Church in Mayo and began work Jan. 1. He previously was senior pastor of Community Baptist Church in Clinton for six years. He received his doctorate from Southern Seminary in 1998. Dry is married to Allison Brock Dry, and they have two children.
A discussion of the state of the church in South Carolina would be incomplete without a look at NewSpring Church, based in Anderson. Not only is NewSpring the largest church in South Carolina, it is also one of the largest and fastest-growing churches in the United States. NewSpring tops all Southern Baptist-affiliated churches among the […]
Nothing struck her as wrong, not until she was around 6 years old and wore shorts to a local Walmart. Another young girl, a stranger, asked: What’s wrong with you? Betsy Bolick’s mother, a nurse, took her home and sat her down to explain — not what was wrong, but what had happened. Bolick had […]
Kyle Turner was getting ready for an early Saturday morning My Hope with Billy Graham golf tournament in November when his wife, Darlene, came running to him with panic in her eyes. Her father, Bramlett Moore, who was staying with them for a few days, had slept in the back bedroom the prior evening and […]
Have you had a life-changing experience associated with Easter so that the Resurrection became intensely personal for you? Do you know someone else who has had such an experience? We want to hear your stories. Please share them with us no later than March 5 using the form below. Some stories may be selected for […]