Terry Pleasant, senior pastor of Calvary Baptist Church in Gaffney, will be nominated for second vice president of the South Carolina Baptist Convention at its annual meeting Nov. 11-12 in Columbia.
Terry PleasantThe Gaffney pastor will be nominated by Ron Jackson, the retired senior pastor of East Gaffney Baptist Church.
Pleasant, a native of Spartanburg, has served churches in both Carolinas and is in his seventh year at Calvary, in the Broad River Association. Calvary Baptist contributes 10 percent of undesignated receipts through the Cooperative Program.
He is the founder of the “Promise of Hope Ministries,” a weekly television program produced by Calvary Baptist Church and sent on DVDs to seven prisons in South Carolina and more than 20 nursing homes and retirement communities.
“God has really blessed this ministry,” said Pleasant, who is the author of a book, “Death: Helping People Deal and Cope with Grief.”
Pleasant, who was licensed and ordained to the ministry by Bethlehem Baptist Church in Roebuck, is a chaplain with the Spartanburg County Sheriff’s Department.
A preacher for 31 years, he received his education at North Greenville and Furman universities, and at Fruitland Baptist Bible Institute in Hendersonville, N.C.