South Carolina Baptists attending the 2007 Pastor’s Conference at Calvary Baptist Church in Florence contributed $9,058 to the Gideons.
The Gideons were honored at the meeting as “partners” with South Carolina Baptists in spreading the gospel through their distributions of copies of the Bible and the New Testament.
Danny Burnley, 2007 Pastor’s Conference president, said that normal conference expenses had been covered by March, and the Gideons’ offering “exceeded anything we would have imagined.”