South Carolina Baptists to serve Columbia area during their annual meeting Nov. 7-8
Messengers to the annual meeting of the South Carolina Baptist Convention will gather Tuesday and Wednesday, Nov. 7-8, at Shandon Baptist Church in Columbia. Under the theme “Unite,” South Carolina Baptists will meet to celebrate the previous year’s ministries and to conduct business. As part of the meeting on Tuesday afternoon, state Baptists will serve […]
Bobby Howard to lead revived emphasis on adult discipleship, Sunday school, missional communities
Bobby Howard has joined the South Carolina Baptist Convention staff as the new associate director for adults, joining the convention’s Generations Group with a goal of “seeing adults make disciples, growing in their faith, and investing in the lives of others.” Howard is no stranger to South Carolina Baptists, serving from 2008 to 2017 as […]
More than 3,500 children, students will attend S.C. Baptists’ Summersalt and Kidsalt
Since 1987, SummerSalt has served as the South Carolina Baptist Convention’s high-energy summer camp designed, per the www.summersalt.org website, to grasp and captivate the next generation with the Gospel. This summer, the five weeks of Summersalt and two weeks of Kidsalt are estimated to reach almost 3,700 campers with the gospel. This year’s theme will be […]
After 35 years, Camp La Vida continues decades of WMU camping ministry
Since opening in 1983, Camp La Vida, near Winnsboro, has served South Carolina Baptists as a missions discipleship camp for 35 years. This year, more than 1,300 campers, girls and boys ages 2nd-12th grades, are expected to attend one of 10 sessions scheduled for June and July. The camp is owned and operated by South […]
First Baptist Church of North Augusta partners with local school
Dena Riley was thrilled when she and two others attended a South Carolina Baptist Convention “Heart 4 Schools” seminar last year. First Baptist Church of North Augusta, where Dena serves as director of children’s ministries, already had a relationship with area schools, providing shoes for students through a Laces of Love project. The Heart 4 […]
SCBC Executive Board concludes year with restructuring, reports, election of 2017 officers
In 2017, the South Carolina Baptist Convention Executive Board committees will be organized in a way that provides seamless work with the state convention staff toward accomplishing the priorities of evangelism, missions mobilization, church revitalization, and church planting. Approval of the reorganization came at the board’s Dec. 8 meeting in Columbia. The new organization alongside […]
Plain and simple: Flood relief volunteers needed in 2017
To make it plain and simple, South Carolina Baptist Disaster Relief needs churches to send missions volunteers for statewide service in the coming year. The effects of flooding in October 2015 are still being felt by dozens of Pee Dee residents, and disaster relief service has been complicated by the October 2016 flooding brought on […]
Woman’s Missionary Union executive reflects on S.C. mission agency’s 2016 work, future emphases
South Carolina Woman’s Missionary Union is more actively involved in touching lives than most churches know. A lot of people think WMU, an auxiliary to the Southern Baptist Convention and to state conventions, is dying, but that’s not true. In South Carolina, where an estimated 75 percent of churches (more than 1,575) have some involvement […]
SCBC Executive Board approves budget, looks to future of ministry in South Carolina
The South Carolina Baptist Convention’s Executive Board adopted a $28.5 million budget for 2017 at its one-day fall board meeting Oct. 18 in Columbia. The board meeting was rescheduled from Oct. 10-11 because of a statewide focus on disaster relief following Hurricane Matthew’s landfall Oct. 8. Rescheduling the meeting allowed the board to give up […]