Carlisle Driggers, retiring South Carolina Baptist Convention executive director-treasurer, was honored Tuesday, Nov. 14, at the evening service of the 2006 Annual Meeting.

Driggers, along with his wife Jeanette and other family members, received numerous accolades and awards from across the state and nation.?Earlier during the convention, Driggers was presented with framed plaques and resolutions from GuideStone, the SBC Executive Committee, history committee and others.

Reiny Koschel, chairman of the Carlisle Driggers appreciation committee, presented Driggers and his wife with several gifts, including tickets to an Atlanta Braves spring training game, a 2007 Mercury Montego, a new Bible and a book of letters written by his colleagues from around the country.

The state’s highest honor, the Order of the Palmetto, was presented to Driggers by Sen. Larry Martin on behalf of Gov. Mark Sanford.

The M.E. Dodd Cooperative Program Award, a sculpture entitled “The Sower,” was also presented to Driggers by Morris Chapman, president and chief executive officer of the SBC Executive Committee.

Driggers thanked the “hundreds of staff, board members and church staff” with whom he worked during his tenure at the state convention.?

He spoke to those in attendance on the continued importance of the Cooperative Program, the main funding source of the convention, saying that “the Cooperative Program works too well to not be God-ordained.”

Driggers began working at the convention in 1992.?He will retire in February 2007.

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