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Duncan youth work in Alaska

A group of 40 youth and adults from First Baptist Church, Duncan, traveled to Palmer, Alaska, in early June to participate in a World Changers mission project. During the weeklong event, the Duncan group served with 100 other participants... Continue Reading »

South Carolina Showcase for July 12, 2007

Tom Sees, pastor of Smyrna Baptist Church, Smyrna, and his wife Shirley led a missions team in April to the Santa Cruz area of Jamaica. Team members delivered a washing machine they purchased to the infirmary in Santa Cruz.... Continue Reading »

Crossing Carolina for July 12, 2007

Bryan Atkinson BRYAN ATKINSON began duties as student minister at Summerton Baptist Church, Summerton, June 1. He is the first full-time student minister in Summerton’s 148-year history. The son of a pastor, Atkinson grew up in Camden and Darlington.... Continue Reading »

Irene Nunn Cooper

Irene Nunn Cooper, of Spartanburg, wife of retired Baptist pastor Robert Sydney Cooper for 68 years, died July 1, 2007.... Continue Reading »

M-Fuge: Reaching from CSU into Charleston community

There is something about M-Fuge that has kept youth pastor Joe Monk coming back year after year since 1998. ?For youth, M-Fuge is a good introduction to missions and is very relational in its interaction with people,? said Monk,... Continue Reading »

Charleston Southern students treat children’s ailments in Sudan

A little 9-year-old boy sat stoically still while medical missionaries cleaned his wound; a gash on his eyelid that led to infection and fever. It was after the treatment that he finally cried, not because of the pain from... Continue Reading »

Developing?Disciples: Live in the sunshine

Even when we don't understand our present circumstances, we can walk in the light.... Continue Reading »

First Baptist Simpsonville holds baptism on site of future worship center

What if we baptized someone? This was the question Randy Harling, senior pastor of First Baptist Church, Simpsonville, posed to his staff in planning a groundbreaking service. Just one month later, four people were baptized where the baptismal pool... Continue Reading »

Upstate mill church seeks to reverse decades of decay

Sam Lawrence is the pastor at Poe Baptist Church in Greenville. In a sense, he has come home; he was baptized there some 30 years ago. Lawrence says the watchword these days for Poe Baptist is one familiar to... Continue Reading »

Nation, SBC mourn loss of Ruth Bell Graham

Ruth Bell Graham, wife of evangelist Billy Graham, died June 14, surrounded by her husband and five children at her Montreat, N.C., home. She was 87.... Continue Reading »

Cooperative Program definition approved at SBC

A definition of the Cooperative Program was among the recommendations adopted June 12 during the SBC Executive Committee's report at the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting.... Continue Reading »

Capitol View – by Joe Mack

Does your church have a Christian Life Concerns committee? You may call it by a different name ? Community Impact Team, CIA for Christians in Action, Salt and Light committee, or any other name that implies your group is... Continue Reading »