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Executive Board affirms potential White Oak deal

The South Carolina Baptist Convention is negotiating with a potential buyer for White Oak Conference Center in Winnsboro. The SCBC Executive Board approved a motion in April 2016 to seek a buyer for its conference center, established in 1979,... Continue Reading »

Connecting Men to Christ in the Outdoors

Patrick Tyndall keeps a flash drive containing photos of men being baptized while wearing their Ironman Outdoors T-shirts. “I remember the first picture I received from a guy who had been on one of our retreats,” Tyndall said. “I... Continue Reading »

30-plus profess Christ at NGU chapel service

North Greenville University reported that more than 30 students professed Jesus as savior at the school’s first chapel service on Aug. 23. Clayton King, teaching pastor at NewSpring Church, preached at the service, which also served as the initial... Continue Reading »

Greenwood pastor will be SCBC president-elect nominee

Bryant Sims, pastor of First Mt. Moriah Baptist Church in Greenwood for the last 14 years, will be nominated for the office of president-elect of the South Carolina Baptist Convention at the SCBC annual meeting Nov. 7-8 at Shandon... Continue Reading »

New book: ‘Never, Oh Never, Take a Dinosaur Home’

Seneca resident Timmi Haulbrook Jernigan has combined her love of children, writing and drawing in her first children’s book, “Never, Oh Never, Take a Dinosaur Home” (Courier Publishing, $11.95). A self-taught artist, Jernigan utilized her talent for many years... Continue Reading »

Tony Beam to serve on SBC’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission

Tony Beam, vice president for student life and Christian worldview at North Greenville University, has been appointed by the Southern Baptist Convention’s Nominating Committee to the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission. The commission works to engage the culture with... Continue Reading »

Obituary: Thomas Daum 

Thomas George Daum, 90, of Clinton, died Aug. 10, 2017. Born Nov. 12, 1926, in Marietta, Ga., he was a graduate of Erskine College and Erskine Seminary. He was also a U.S. Navy veteran of World War II. He... Continue Reading »

Obituary: Dock Rabon

Dock S. Rabon, 87, of Aynor, died Aug. 15, 2017. He was born June 28, 1930, and pastored at Camp Branch, Myrtle Head, Lawndale and New Home, and was the current pastor of Pleasant Union Baptist Church, where he... Continue Reading »

Obituary: Ray Rogers

C. Ray Rogers, 84, of Florence, died Aug. 14, 2017. Born in Wilmington, N.C., he was a graduate of Mars Hill College, Wake Forest University and Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. He formerly served Turbeville First Baptist Church in Turbeville... Continue Reading »

Obituary: Rigba Conner Wolfe

Rigba Conner Wolfe, 81, of Columbia, died Aug. 18, 2017. Born June 5, 1936, he served in the U.S. Air Force for four years. He was ordained to the ministry in 1967 and served as a pastor of Beaver... Continue Reading »

Columbia First launches interactive online Sunday school class

For the past 62 years, Columbia First Baptist Church has broadcast worship services on television and advanced the gospel over the public airwaves in South Carolina and in parts of North Carolina and Georgia. More recently, worship services have... Continue Reading »

Energetic nonagenarian presented Baptist Foundation award

Age has never been a hindrance for Franklin G. Mason, a man who ran his first marathon at 60 and who still practices dentistry at 92. He has been on 35 medical mission trips to eight different countries, served... Continue Reading »