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S.C. Baptist Ministries for Aging names new president

Richard McLawhorn, a pastor and lawyer with broad administrative and government staff experience, has been named president of South Carolina Baptist Ministries for the Aging.... Continue Reading »

In 2006: Ministries for Aging seeks CEO, ‘new vision’

Following a tumultuous year in which a struggling South Carolina Baptist Ministries for the Aging received a generous outpouring of financial support from churches, individuals and the state convention, the ministry enters 2006 with renewed hope and a plan... Continue Reading »

Murphy gets creative for children’s sake

While 'today? show viewers might ask: ?Where in the world is Matt Lauer??, people who regularly attend the annual meeting of the South Carolina Baptist Convention are more likely to ponder: ?What in the world is Miller Murphy up... Continue Reading »

Upstate pastor, pilot alive after plane clips trees, crashes

It was a routine approach at about 6:30 p.m. on Nov. 7 when pilot Arnold Emery dipped his twin-engine Beechcraft Duchess toward a private landing strip near the base of Glassy Mountain in northern Greenville County.... Continue Reading »

‘Our Heroes’ honors church’s military veterans

Christmas Eve, 1944, somewhere in northern France … Twenty-year-old Lloyd Batson and some of his Army buddies, pausing in their frigid march toward a titanic clash that later will come to be known as the Battle of the Bulge,... Continue Reading »