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Bill Ellison

Obituary: John William “Preacher Bill” Ellison

John William “Preacher Bill” Ellison, 73, of Williamston, died Feb. 15, 2014. Born March 21, 1940, he was a Southern Baptist minister for 50 years, having served Friendship Baptist Church, Abbeville, for 18 years, Bountyland Baptist Church, Seneca, for... Continue Reading »

Obituary: Luther Jarvin Shuman Jr.

Luther Jarvin Shuman Jr., 99, of Kingstree, died Feb. 28, 2014. Born Feb. 3, 1915, in Vidalia, Ga., he was a graduate of Statesboro High School and Southern Seminary. He served as pastor of numerous churches, his last being... Continue Reading »

Obituary: Eldon Leroy Hayes

Eldon Leroy Hayes, 93, of Anderson, died Feb. 6, 2014. Born in Pickens, he earned a master of religious education degree from Southwestern Seminary. He retired from Union Baptist Church in Iva after serving 33 years as pastor and... Continue Reading »

Tony Eubanks

Eubanks is new evangelism minister at Simpsonville FBC

Tony Eubanks of Pendleton has been called as minister of evangelism at Simpsonville First Baptist Church. He begins his work April 1. Since 2009, Eubanks has run a spiritual mentoring program called “Spiritual 2-A-Days,” which he founded. He served... Continue Reading »

Singing Churchmen

South Carolina Singing Churchmen share music, engage Londoners with gospel

In March, the South Carolina Baptist Singing Churchmen partnered with the International Mission Board to present a mission tour to London and surrounding areas. Representing churches from across the Palmetto State were 25 members of the Singing Churchmen and... Continue Reading »

Are you a Christian counselor? Do our readers know how to find you?

The May issue of the Courier will focus on Christian counseling. We look forward to providing our readers with information about this valuable resource. If you are a credentialed Christian counselor and would like to advertise information about your... Continue Reading »

Jack Hester

Tent crusade returns preacher to baseball field of his youth

Jack W. Hester, associate pastor and staff evangelist at City View First Baptist Church in Greenville, will hold a tent crusade in the Conestee community near Mauldin beginning April 27 at 2:30 p.m. The location of the tent marks... Continue Reading »

Ronald “Dee” Vaughan

St. Andrews pastor is writer for Open Windows magazine

Ronald “Dee” Vaughan, pastor of St. Andrews Baptist Church, Columbia, is writer of the May 11-20 devotionals in LifeWay’s devotional magazine, Open Windows.

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Steven Eudy family

New Hope calls Steven Eudy as associate youth pastor

New Hope Baptist Church, Pelzer, recently called Steven Eudy as an associate youth pastor. Eudy grew up in the Fountain Inn/Simpsonville area and was ordained Feb. 16 by Pelzer First Baptist Church, where he and his wife, Dana, have... Continue Reading »

Roger Childers licensed to ministry

Southside licenses Roger Childers to ministry

Southside Baptist Church, Gaffney, recently licensed Roger Childers to the ministry. Pictured at right is Childers receiving the certificate from chairman of deacons Joe Brown.

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Deane Harrison ordination

Rockvale Baptist Church ordains Deane Harrison to the ministry

Rockvale Baptist Church, Piedmont, recently ordained Deane Harrison (center) to the ministry. He is a graduate of Liberty University Theological Seminary, having earned a master of divinity degree. Harrison is serving as associate pastor at Rockvale while seeking his... Continue Reading »

Great Commission Living SCBC

With ‘Great Commission Living’ as guide, panel to develop proposals for ‘enhancement of cooperative work’

In light of the “Great Commission Living” vision theme adopted last fall by messengers to the South Carolina Baptist Convention annual meeting, a subcommittee of the SCBC Executive Board has been tasked with bringing recommendations “regarding the enhancement of... Continue Reading »