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University of Florida fans would have you believe that Gainesville is the new Smallville or at least the new Metropolis. It's hard to argue against their enthusiasm.... Continue Reading »

PrayerGates.com, an online social networking community to minister to women around the globe, has been launched by the B&H Publishing Group.... Continue Reading »

This is final report of the 2009 Committee on Committees. If approved by messengers to the 2009 annual meeting, members begin serving Jan. 1, 2010. Mike Hamlet, pastor of North Spartanburg First Baptist Church, is chairman.... Continue Reading »

The Bylaws Committee of the South Carolina Baptist Convention will present the following amendment to the messengers at its annual meeting Nov. 10-11. (Proposed new language is set off by brackets.)... Continue Reading »

Faith Baptist Church of Swansea has established a church in Romania by purchasing a building for Christian gypsies to use as a place of worship.... Continue Reading »

EC declines to appoint CP task force During the final business session of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee’s Sept. 21-22 meeting in Nashville, Tenn., members declined to recommend the appointment of a task force to examine Cooperative Program... Continue Reading »

As thousands of families across America gather around their dinner tables tonight, bow their heads and thank God for the meal they?re about to receive, a Mexican family will be sending their children to bed hungry.... Continue Reading »

? 36.2 million Americans – that’s 11.1 percent of American households – suffer from food insecurity, meaning their access to enough food is limited by a lack of money and other resources. ? 17.5 percent of all rural households... Continue Reading »

NewSpring Church, based in Anderson but with three satellite campuses across the state, baptized more than 900 believers Sunday, Sept. 13.... Continue Reading »

More than 2,500 students are involved in one of 31 South Carolina Baptist College Ministry groups and Bible studies on college and university campuses.... Continue Reading »

Fresh from a two-day meeting with 26 fellow state Baptist executives and North American Mission Board staff members, South Carolina Baptist Convention executive director-treasurer Jim Austin offered optimistic but tempered comments about two Southern Baptist initiatives.... Continue Reading »

Weldon Fallaw, president of the Baptist Foundation of South Carolina, has announced plans to retire effective Dec. 31. At his retirement, he will have served the foundation for more than 28 years.... Continue Reading »