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Campers converge for missions rally

Published on April 25, 2013

The athletic complex of Anderson University was transformed into a temporary campground April 11-14 when about 60 South Carolina Baptist Campers on Mission parked their trailers and motor homes at the AU campus for their biannual state rally. Twice... Continue Reading »

Former addict seeks to reach Anderson’s ‘forgotten people’

Published on April 25, 2013

Tyus Butler is dialed in to the conversation. Cheerful chattering workers come and go from the room ? rooting around amid a tangled pyramid of power tools, lugging awkward clutches of two-by-fours ? but the noise might as well... Continue Reading »

Whitaker marks 10th anniversary as Anderson University president

Published on February 14, 2013

As a boy growing up in the 1960s in rural Cleveland County, N.C., Evans Whitaker enjoyed the same things other boys did: jumping creeks, fishing in farm ponds, rummaging through barns, exploring the woods or cutting through a neighbor's... Continue Reading »

S.C. pastors weigh in on ‘1% CP Challenge’

Published on January 31, 2013

Fewer than one in five pastors who responded to an informal online survey told The Baptist Courier their churches have accepted or plan to accept the 1% Cooperative Program Challenge. The 1% Challenge was launched by the Executive Committee... Continue Reading »

Listening for God on a Frozen Utah Mountainside

Published on November 22, 2012

Three years ago, Zack Williams, a struggling drug addict and alcoholic wandering through a spiritual void, found himself alone on a barren Utah mountainside in the bitter, sub-zero cold of November. The York native, after 10 years of addiction... Continue Reading »

Messengers approve task force to chart SCBC focus

Published on November 15, 2012

South Carolina Baptist Convention messengers Nov. 14 approved the creation of a Seeking the Kingdom Task Force to begin determining the future focus of the state convention, but not without some discussion.... Continue Reading »

Carter leads slate of newly elected SCBC officers

Published on November 14, 2012

South Carolina Baptist messengers elected a new slate of officers Nov. 14 at their annual meeting at the TD Convention Center in Greenville.... Continue Reading »

‘Guilty as charged,’ Cathy says of Chick-fil-A’s stand on biblical & family values

Published on July 17, 2012

Dan Cathy"s success has not erased the biblical values he learned as a child in a Baptist church.... Continue Reading »

Singing Churchmen bridge language divide with ‘music of the heart’

Published on May 24, 2012

For Robert Beaver, a recent mission trip to the Dominican Republic with the South Carolina Baptist Singing Churchmen offered a hopeful glimpse of the hereafter. Beaver, minister of music at Belton's First Baptist Church, sang with 36 of his... Continue Reading »

Two congregations covenant to form new church

Published on May 10, 2012

Covenant Grace Baptist Church pastor Ben Skaug preached to a near-capacity crowd on Easter Sunday. Two Greenville County congregations located less than three miles apart (as the crow flies) have combined to form Covenant Grace Baptist Church. More... Continue Reading »

S.C. Baptists feeling impact of mission board’s restructuring

Published on April 26, 2012

Even as some Southern Baptist state convention leaders are expressing concerns about the new initiatives of the North American Mission Board, the chief executive of the South Carolina Baptist Convention feels most state executives support a refocused emphasis on... Continue Reading »

Don Kirkland to retire as editor of The Baptist Courier

Published on March 14, 2012

Don Kirkland, editor and president of The Baptist Courier for the last 16 years, has announced that he will retire at the end of 2012.... Continue Reading »