Butch Blume

At a forum where the dialogue was by turns both plainspoken and conciliatory, about 70 music and worship ministers and church musicians gathered July 13 at the South Carolina Baptist Convention building to talk with leaders about the future... Continue Reading »

Ask Jim Gill to talk about his musical beginnings, and he?ll tell you he was a paid soloist at age 5.... Continue Reading »

When Ronnie Cox describes the innovative way his church is doing apartment ministry, he says he's actually talking about a tried-and-true method as old as the first-century church itself.... Continue Reading »

Ridgeview Baptist Church, a growing upstate congregation ?planted? by Taylors First Baptist Church in 2003, held a constitution service June 4 to commemorate the conclusion of a three-year period of financial support, incubation and nurturing.... Continue Reading »

When SBC president Bobby Welch declared Frank Page the president-elect of the Southern Baptist Convention, he reminded messengers that despite the South Carolina pastor's narrow majority victory in the three-man race, he believes Page will be a convention president... Continue Reading »

Page received 4,546 votes, or 50.48 percent, of the 9,005 votes cast in the three-person race. Floyd and Sutton split the remaining votes almost evenly, with Floyd receiving 2,247 votes (24.95 percent) and Sutton garnering 2,168 votes (24.08 percent).... Continue Reading »

When Michael Hodge tells of introducing Christ to a group of African men who stood on a busy street and called out to him, requesting that he tell them the good news they had seen him sharing with others,... Continue Reading »

What a difference a year makes. In early 2005, South Carolina Baptist Ministries for the Aging was on the ropes, and the talk ? often emotional ? was of selling Bethea Baptist Retirement Community in Darlington and Martha Franks... Continue Reading »

As he nears the first-hundred-days mark in his tenure as president of South Carolina Baptist Ministries for the Aging, Richard McLawhorn has proven himself a tireless and tenacious champion for the cause of ministry to retired senior adults.... Continue Reading »

Anthony Burger, 44, known to gospel music fans as the energetic pianist on Bill Gaither's popular Homecoming television broadcasts, died suddenly Feb. 22 while performing aboard a cruise ship in the Caribbean.... Continue Reading »

Two South Carolinians serving as International Mission Board trustees have voiced differing opinions about a recent IMB board decision that, among other things, prohibits the appointment of missionaries who practice a ?private prayer language.?... Continue Reading »