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Lockhart First Baptist honors Hugh Gregory for 30 years perfect Sunday school attendance

Lockhart First Baptist Church recently recognized Hugh Gregory for 30 years of perfect Sunday school attendance. He was baptized at Lockhart First Baptist on May 21, 1950, and has been a faithful member for the past 65 years, serving... Continue Reading »

Fort Mill pastor Tom Tucker leads slate of SCBC officers

New officers for the South Carolina Baptist Convention were elected by messengers Nov. 11 at the SCBC’s annual meeting at Spartanburg First Baptist Church. Tom Tucker, pastor of Sisk Memorial Baptist Church in Fort Mill, was elected president. Tucker... Continue Reading »

S.C. Baptists adopt resolutions on foster care, human trafficking, Emanuel AME Church

South Carolina Baptists adopted resolutions Nov. 10 on the Cooperative Program, foster care, freedom of religious expression, human trafficking, faith-based pregnancy care centers, and the statewide faith community’s response to the June 2015 massacre at Charleston’s Emanuel AME Church.... Continue Reading »

SC Baptist Convention messengers vote to disaffiliate with Augusta Heights Church over same-sex marriage

South Carolina Baptist Convention messengers voted Nov. 10 to disaffiliate with Augusta Heights Baptist Church of Greenville after the church’s pastor performed a same-sex marriage ceremony. Dwight Easler, chairman of the SCBC Executive Board, presented the motion to messengers... Continue Reading »

Officers chosen for 2016 S.C. Baptist Pastors’ Conference

Mike Runion (left), pastor of City View First Baptist Church of Greenville, was elected president of the 2016 South Carolina Baptist Pastors’ Conference Nov. 10 at Southside Baptist Church in Spartanburg. Runion served as vice president of the Pastors’... Continue Reading »

Kenneth Morgan honored for 61 years of teaching Sunday school

Kenneth Morgan has been teaching Sunday school for a long, long time. In fact, over the last 61 years, Morgan has probably opened up God’s Word to the people of Red Oak Grove Baptist Church in Modoc (Edgefield Baptist... Continue Reading »

Kelly announces Committee on Committees members

South Carolina Baptist Convention president Tommy Kelly has announced his appointees to the 2016 Committee on Committees, who will consider and present for approval nominees to the convention’s standing committees at the 2016 SCBC annual meeting: Jimmie Davis (Spartanburg... Continue Reading »

Augusta Heights Baptist Church dismissed from Greenville Association after pastor performs same-sex marriage

Updated Nov. 10, 10:30 a.m. Editor’s note: Messengers to the 2015 annual meeting of the South Carolina Baptist Convention Nov. 10 approved a motion from the SCBC Executive Board that Augusta Heights Baptist Church “be disaffiliated from the South... Continue Reading »

88-year-old Bill Taylor returns to preach at Westside Church in Sumter

Retired pastor Bill Taylor is returning to preach at a Sumter church he helped found many years ago. Taylor, 88, will bring the Sunday morning message at Westside Baptist Church on Nov. 15. He is the former pastor of... Continue Reading »

NGU panel to address preaching in contemporary culture

A Nov. 12 panel discussion at North Greenville University will explore “Evangelical Preaching in Contemporary Culture.” The event will be held from 2:00 to 3:30 p.m. in the university’s Craft/Hemphill Building. Panelists will include Marcus Buckley, pastor of Riverside... Continue Reading »

Ministers with 50 years of service to be honored at SCBC meeting on Tues. evening

The 2015 annual meeting of the South Carolina Baptist Convention will honor paid church ministerial staff with 50 years or more service at the Tuesday evening session, Nov. 10, at First Baptist Church, Spartanburg. A story appearing in the... Continue Reading »

Ridge Spring Baptist WMU project receives award

Several members of Ridge Spring Baptist Church’s WMU were honored at an awards ceremony on Oct. 29, in which Saluda Nursing Center received the “Spirit of Caring” award for the Easter Hat Parade sponsored by Ridge Spring Baptist. The... Continue Reading »