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Richard M. Ellison and Ruby Nell Ellison, a husband-wife teaching duo at Cedar Grove Baptist Church in Belton, were honored recently for a combined 140 years of teaching Sunday school.... Continue Reading »

For the first time since a raging fire destroyed their 103-year-old sanctuary early on the first Sunday morning of November 2007, the members of Sandy Run Baptist Church, Hampton, are worshipping somewhere other than in their fellowship hall.... Continue Reading »

A winter storm on Jan. 31 covered steps and walkways with ice, forcing many churches to cancel services for the day. However, the 'tween-Age? Sunday school class of Liberty Hill Baptist Church in Pageland did not let that keep... Continue Reading »

Long before the surgeon general issued his 1964 report showing the devastating harm of smoking, much of the nation viewed cigarettes as fun and harmless, even cool.... Continue Reading »

Tonight I had the pleasant surprise of being able to stay in the home of one of my personal mentors and pastoral heroes. The time I was able to spend talking and sharing about the Lord, the ministry and... Continue Reading »

Thomas M. 'tommy? Knotts, 79, of Belvedere, an active leader in Baptist denominational life, died March 24, 2010.... Continue Reading »

June Cooper, 81, of Columbia, who answered a call to full-time missionary service while a young woman at Park Street Baptist Church, Columbia, died March 14, 2010, at her residence.... Continue Reading »

Words are so last-millennium, dude. Children of the digital age are growing up with a different kind of literacy, we are told. They learn to understand the world not through complete sentences, paragraphs and books, but through ever-changing sounds,... Continue Reading »

Barbara G. Platt, wife of John V. Platt, director of missions for Columbia Metro Association, died April 17, 2010.... Continue Reading »

In Acts 1:8, Jesus says, ?But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the... Continue Reading »

Last night was not a good sleeping night for me. Our new dog Speckles, although less than a year old, snores. Our two cats Goldilocks and Augustine purr, and my Ed occasionally, although not often, talks in his sleep.... Continue Reading »

The North Greenville University Board of Trustees, meeting April 15, appealed to Southern Baptist leaders at national and state levels to endorse the Cooperative Program as the ?primary means of missions giving? in the denomination.... Continue Reading »