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SCBC messengers approve GCR task force report

Messengers to the Nov. 15-16 annual meeting of the South Carolina Baptist Convention have overwhelmingly approved the report of the SCBC's Great Commission Resurgence Task Force.... Continue Reading »

S.C. Baptists approve GCR Task Force report

Messengers to the 191st annual meeting of the South Carolina Baptist Convention overwhelmingly approved the report of the state convention"s Great Commission Resurgence Task Force Nov. 15.... Continue Reading »

Hearing God in the Crowd

When Don Chasteen was a seminarian, he learned from an older pastor ?how to walk slowly through the crowd.? The teacher was Fred Wolfe, who was pastor of Woodlawn Church in Decatur, Ga., where Chasteen spent the summer of... Continue Reading »

Hendrick new public policy liaison for SCBC

Mark Hendrick, a 2008 graduate of Clemson University, has joined the staff of the South Carolina Baptist Convention as associate director of the office of public policy. The Conway native began work March 2 and will coordinate with the... Continue Reading »

South Carolina task force to develop response to GCR recommendations

Messengers to the South Carolina Baptist Convention annual meeting authorized outgoing SCBC president Fred Stone to appoint a South Carolina Great Commission Resurgence Task Force. On Nov. 19, Stone released the names of appointees to the task force. Ralph... Continue Reading »

Messengers trim budget, send more to SBC

South Carolina Baptist Convention messengers, gathering Nov. 16-17 in Columbia for the convention’s 190th annual meeting, adopted a 2011 operating budget of $29.54 million that includes an increase in the percentage of funds to be forwarded to the Southern... Continue Reading »

New SCBC president says Baptists need to ‘get serious,’ define mission

Sonny Holmes, 61, pastor of Northwood Baptist Church, North Charleston, has been elected president of the South Carolina Baptist Convention. Of 569 ballots cast by messengers at the SCBC annual meeting in the Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center on Wednesday... Continue Reading »

SCBC begins Great Commission ‘Conversation’

Late into the afternoon of Aug. 24, as the South Carolina “Great Commission Resurgence Conversation” drew to a close, Ed Carney counted to three, and the several hundred people who had remained for the entire day – scattered now... Continue Reading »

Family experiences God’s ‘appropriate timing’ in adoption

During a mission trip to Russia in 2000, Joey Hawkins began to feel God ?pressing? upon him to welcome a new child ? by adoption ? into his home. His wife, Gena, who was holding down the fort with... Continue Reading »

Easley man returns to scene of ‘the Lord’s business’ in Southeast Asia

Why would a man return to a country where he was kidnapped by an armed band of drunken marauders and dragged into the jungle for what he thought would be his execution? For retired missionary Jack Mahaffey, the answer... Continue Reading »

SCBC president Fred Stone on GCRTF progress report: ‘I like what I heard’

Fred Stone, president of the South Carolina Baptist Convention, says he "likes what [he] heard" from Great Commission Resurgence Task Force chairman Ronnie Floyd.... Continue Reading »

McAlister combines love for outdoors with evangelistic ministry

?I am more alive outdoors than anywhere else,? says Chuck McAlister. 'the outdoors draws us because that is where we can get in touch with something, or Someone, much bigger than ourselves.?... Continue Reading »

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