Greg Koukl, CEO of Stand to Reason, an online Christian education resource, spoke to students at Charleston Southern University Sept. 28. As part of the university’s vision to integrate faith in the classroom and community, Koukl led three additional discussions designed specifically for faculty, staff and students.
Union Church, Marion, hosted its first monthly Mission Action Night on Sept. 14. Special guests were members of the Marion Association disaster relief team. The church presented a love offering to the team members to help with their travel expenses to disaster sites.
Beulah Church, Branchville, held a baptism service on Aug. 21 at the Edisto River home of members Robert and Peggy Barker. Ken Frederick (left), pastor of Blackville First Church and son of Beulah pastor Robert Frederick, baptized Rhonda Dukes, Hannah Tollison, Ashley Green and Emily McAlhany.
Memorial Church, St. George, sent a 16-member mission team to University Baptist Church in Anchorage, Alaska, to help with construction projects during the month of August. The team represented six St. George area churches.
Rock Springs Church, Easley, has completed a new facility for youth and college students that includes worship space and fellowship areas. New Sunday school space was added in the former children’s building next door. The church also has opened “Kidz Town,” a new worship area for children that features an imaginative downtown setting where leaders and the puppet ministry team conduct children’s worship on Sunday evenings.
The children and youth of Flat Rock Church, Saluda Association, recently participated in the State Mission Study. Their activities included placing flowers at the Anderson gravesite of Janie Chapman, for whom the state missions offering is named. Ed Hunsinger is pastor and Thelma Brown is WMU director at Flat Rock Church.