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During the opening week of the football season at North Greenville University, after evangelist R.V. Brown spoke to the team, 13 players prayed to receive Christ as Savior. That experience “sparked” something in senior punter Jacob Buckley’s heart, who... Continue Reading »
A North Greenville University student who died Oct. 10 after falling while hiking near a steep waterfall is being remembered by staff and students as a warm and gregarious person who “touched so many for Christ” during his life... Continue Reading »
Newly elected officers of the South Carolina Baptist Convention, from left, are: Verla Bennie, member of Mauldin First Baptist Church, recording secretary; Shane Donald, pastor of Cedar Shoals Baptist Church, Belton, second vice president; D.J. Horton, pastor of Anderson... Continue Reading »
D.J. Horton, pastor of Anderson Mill Road Baptist Church near Spartanburg, has been elected president of the South Carolina Baptist Convention. Horton, 36, received 244 of 407 votes cast by messengers to the SCBC’s 193rd annual meeting, held Nov.... Continue Reading »
Messengers to the two-day 193rd annual meeting of the South Carolina Baptist Convention will reconvene Wednesday at Shandon Baptist Church in Columbia to elect a state convention president and other officers. The Courier is posting live updates from the... Continue Reading »
In the few months since Baptist Courier editor Rudy Gray began quietly sharing his vision for “Friends of the Courier,” more than $10,000 has been given by donors to support the newsmagazine’s ministry of Christian journalism. Now, Gray hopes... Continue Reading »
Cletus Lynch knew from the time he was a boy that he had a younger sister. Barbara Mapes grew up knowing she was adopted, but she always felt she had a big brother out there somewhere, just beyond her... Continue Reading »
When the girls from Brown Cottage at Connie Maxwell Children’s Home go out to eat, they link pinkie fingers and ask the blessing. The endearing ritual, which they call “praying the Brown way,” was started by a girl who... Continue Reading »
Cooperative Program giving from South Carolina Baptist churches improved in July but still trails budgeted goals for the year. Gifts received through the first seven months of 2013 totaled nearly $16 million, which was 3.91 percent short of budgeted... Continue Reading »
Glenn Thomason, who believes “age is just a number, not a hindrance,” recently completed a Ph.D. at the age of 72. Pursuing an advanced degree in pastoral ministries was on the vocational evangelist’s “bucket list,” and he says it... Continue Reading »
Churches that break ties with the Boy Scouts of America are choosing “the only option to avoid compromising biblical truth regarding homosexuality,” according to the chairman of the South Carolina Baptist Convention’s Christian Life and Public Affairs Committee. Hal... Continue Reading »
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