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State convention executive directors have agreed to affirm a portion of the Great Commission Resurgence (GCR) report requesting a 50/50 division of Cooperative Program (CP) receipts ? after consideration for shared ministry funds ? between state conventions and the... Continue Reading »

Looking for some help preparing your income tax returns but can't afford the cost? The IRS sponsors two programs that may help.... Continue Reading »

Thomas Houston Hawkins, 92, of Seneca, a retired pastor, died Feb. 13, 2011.... Continue Reading »

Frank Page, president of the Executive Committee, cast a ?Christ-centered, Bible-based? vision Feb. 22 for how Southern Baptists can work with God to accomplish his purposes in North America and around the world during the next decade. ?I simply... Continue Reading »

North Greenville University's Christian Worldview Center will hold its fifth annual Christian Worldview Conference March 21-23.... Continue Reading »

James E. Holder, 82, of Gaffney, a pastor for 63 years, died Feb. 3, 2011.... Continue Reading »

This year, Sean Vickers, minister of students at Boiling Springs First Baptist Church, wanted to take a creative approach to True Love Waits, the sexual-abstinence-until-marriage emphasis for teenagers. Wanting to make the series fresh and challenging, he came up... Continue Reading »

Gary C. Redding will retire March 31 after serving 22 years as pastor of First Baptist Church, North Augusta.... Continue Reading »

William Crate Murphy, 93, of Anderson, a retired pastor, died Feb. 7, 2011, at Rainey Hospice House.... Continue Reading »

The years immediately following the Civil War were dark and difficult ones for South Carolina ? and no less so for the churches of the still-young South Carolina Baptist Convention, founded only a few decades before, in 1821. State... Continue Reading »

KENNY OWEN was called as pastor of First Baptist Church, Westminster, on Feb. 6, after serving as interim pastor since last November. Prior to that, he served as pastor at Earle’s Grove Baptist Church, Westminster, for 27 years, and... Continue Reading »

Charles Henry Rabon, 80, former director of pastoral ministries for the South Carolina Baptist Convention, died Feb. 8, 2011, at Presbyterian Hospital, Charlotte.... Continue Reading »