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North Greenville University celebrated its 116 years of existence on Wednesday, Sept. 17, with a Founder's Day chapel service on the northern Greenville county campus. Richard Blackaby, author, international speaker and president of Blackaby Ministries International, was the keynote... Continue Reading »

The first-grader just had one question when Vacation Bible School was over. ?You mean we don't come back tomorrow?? No, VBS only lasts a week. But what the children learned lasts forever: God's truth is unshakable.... Continue Reading »

Don Matthews has been called as the South Carolina Baptist Convention revitalization director. Matthews, who is from Midlothian, Va., began his duties Oct. 1.... Continue Reading »

What does a church do when it can't host its own Vacation Bible School? It gets creative!... Continue Reading »

Steve Cloud has joined the South Carolina Baptist Convention staff as interim associate executive director of the church vitalization team. Cloud will serve on a temporary basis while the administrative committee of the convention's Executive Board continues to review... Continue Reading »

A mission team from Millers Creek (N.C.) Baptist Church decided to go to Hawaii to help with Vacation Bible School and to work at Hawaii Baptists? Pu?u Kahea Conference Center. They heard things like, ?Oh, a mission trip to... Continue Reading »

Dear Dr. Graham: I have asked God to give me the Holy Spirit, but how can I be sure he has? Maybe I don't understand why God promised to give the Holy Spirit to us. ? J.R.R.... Continue Reading »

Memphis in late spring can be a muggy place. Let your imagination take you back to 1925 (yes, before air conditioning). Fifty-six hundred messengers were meeting inside the city's brand new convention center for the annual meeting of the... Continue Reading »

Even though sharp drops in the stock market have many Southern Baptist pastors worried about their retirement funds, making an emotional decision to get out of the market is unwise, the president of GuideStone Financial Resources told members of... Continue Reading »

Baptists make 2 million meals in hurricane relief Southern Baptist disaster relief volunteers surpassed the milestone of preparing more than 2 million hot meals in the wake of Hurricanes Ike and Gustav. More than 100 units from 19 state... Continue Reading »

If you feel jittery after the events of the week of Sept. 15, you are not alone. The sell-offs we experienced and then the buy-backs show how quickly many people react to the changing news regarding the market. However,... Continue Reading »

Evergreen Baptist Church in Effingham recently welcomed this family of six, and on Sept. 21 pastor Quinn Hooks baptized five of them. From left are Joseph Pack, Daren Pack, Vonda Pack (who joined by transfer of membership from another... Continue Reading »