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Roger Orman, associate executive director for the South Carolina Baptist Convention, has announced his retirement effective Nov. 30. Orman, who joined the state convention staff in 2000, is relocating to his home state of Mississippi, where he will serve... Continue Reading »
The South Carolina Baptist Convention has hired Thomas Truitt as executive director of camps and conference centers, a new position that represents a consolidation of management responsibilities for Camp McCall and White Oak Conference Center. Truitt will begin his... Continue Reading »
Richard Harris, a retired vice president with the North American Mission Board, was elected interim executive director-treasurer of the South Carolina Baptist Convention by the convention’s Executive Board. The action occurred at the board’s fall meeting, Monday-Tuesday, Oct. 6-7,... Continue Reading »
When Charlene Bowling opened a small package from the South Carolina Baptist Convention a few weeks ago, she immediately thought of her granddaughters. The secretary at Mt. Carmel Baptist Church in Easley had received sample LiveIT wristbands sent to... Continue Reading »
Mt. Airy Baptist Church, Easley, and a new church plant near Cleveland, Ohio, signed a partnership covenant during a worship service on Sept. 21. The signing was a culmination of months of prayer and planning and began with a... Continue Reading »
Editor’s note: For security reasons, last names of missionaries in this story are omitted. In 1999, Jeff and Cyndi were raising their family in the Lowcountry of South Carolina. Jeff had worked for 20 years in corporate banking, and... Continue Reading »
Messengers to this year’s annual meeting of the South Carolina Baptist Convention will vote on separate recommendations to change the convention’s bylaws. The changes would allow for the election of a president-elect and give clarification to what it means... Continue Reading »
Richard Kelly serves as an International Mission Board (IMB) Mandinka team leader in the country of Senegal — a position he never dreamed of when he began his work as a maintenance manager at Camp LaVida, just outside of... Continue Reading »
Teenagers from across the state gathered in Columbia May 3 for the 2014 State Youth Bible Drill. As families and church leaders looked on, the teens demonstrated their prowess at handling and memorizing the Bible. After preliminary drills, the... Continue Reading »
In his report at the April 7-8 meeting of the Executive Board of the South Carolina Baptist Convention, SCBC executive director-treasurer Jim Austin expressed optimism in the face of declining Cooperative Program gifts from churches. Austin noted that CP... Continue Reading »
Dwight Easler, pastor of Corinth Baptist Church in Gaffney, was elected chairman of the South Carolina Baptist Convention’s Executive Board for 2014 at its year-end meeting on Dec. 12 at the convention building in Columbia. Easler, who has served... Continue Reading »
This fall, the South Carolina Baptist Convention held regional fellowship events for wives of pastors, ministers and church planters. The dinners were held in Greenville in September, in Charleston in October, and during the Pastors’ Conference in Columbia in... Continue Reading »
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