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Last Word - Receiving and Giving Care

Editor’s Word: Receiving and Giving Care

My dad passed away a few years ago. Today, my mom, who has Alzheimer’s, lives in an assisted living home near us. Neither of my parents ever wanted to be a burden to anyone, but we wanted to provide... Continue Reading »

Robert Jackson - EA McDowell Award

A Man and His Mission: The Sanctity of Human Life

Robert Jackson is a family physician in Spartanburg who, for more than 30 years, has faithfully followed his mission: to promote the sanctity of human life. A dedicated Christian and Southern Baptist, Jackson said that during his second year... Continue Reading »

Lottie Moon Christmas Offering for International Missions - December 2013

Editor’s Word: A Christmas Tradition

Have you ever heard the complaint, “Christmas has become too commercial”? I am pretty sure I have echoed that sentiment myself. In 1996, Washington Times writer Larry Witham, in an article entitled “Rescuing Christmas From Its Pagan Beginnings,” wrote:... Continue Reading »

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The Pulse of Missions

“I have been involved in missions my entire life,” says Laurie Register, executive director-treasurer of South Carolina’s Woman’s Missionary Union. She trusted Christ as Savior as a child and participated in Mission Friends, Girls in Action, Acteens, youth choir... Continue Reading »

Connie Maxwell Children’s Home - Christmas Store

From the Editor: The Christmas Store

Each Christmas since the mid 1970s, the children at Connie Maxwell Children’s Home have shopped for gifts for their families from what has come to be known as the Christmas Store. A joint ministry of Connie Maxwell and Connie... Continue Reading »

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Finding Assurance at the Foot of a Cedar Cross

Just before Mike and Debbie Baker left home for a three-year appointment by the International Mission Board to serve in Southeast Asia, he went out to his game preserve — not to hunt, but to pour his heart out... Continue Reading »

Thanksgiving —The Holiday and the Practice

I really enjoy the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays. The commercialism overshadows the spiritual substance in both, but I still enjoy them. The fourth Thursday in November, Thanksgiving Day, is a legal holiday in our country. Thanksgiving has been an... Continue Reading »

Church reaches out to golfers with gospel, ‘My Hope America’ tourney

Oak Crest Baptist Church, Greenville, has applied the My Hope America Billy Graham crusade strategy in a unique way by holding a service one Sunday a month at a local golf course. For the past six months, pastor Kyle... Continue Reading »

Servant Leadership

Editor’s Word: Servant Leadership

The phrase “servant leader” was created by Robert K. Greenleaf in his book, “The Servant Leader,” in 1970. He called a servant leader “a curious and meaningful paradox.” After a 38-year career with AT&T, he started his second career... Continue Reading »

Leaders Must Lead

Leaders Must Lead

It has been observed that the main thing is to do the main thing. Leaders, for example, must lead. Yet there appears to be a lack of good leadership in nearly every strata of our society. It seems there... Continue Reading »

Amy and Ed Sturkie

God’s Miraculous Grace

He kept praying over and over, “Dear Jesus, help me.” That was back in February. Today, Ed and Amy Sturkie are rejoicing in the miraculous grace of God. A member of First Baptist Church in Columbia, Ed, a retired... Continue Reading »

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Awana: A Ministry of Evangelism and Discipleship

Tanglewood Baptist Church in Greenville was the first South Carolina Baptist Convention church to start an Awana Club 26 years ago. Today there are more than 350 Awana clubs in churches across the state, with 307 of them located... Continue Reading »