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In its annual October meeting, the South Carolina Baptist Convention Executive Board approved a recommendation from the budget, finance and audit committee to implement a new method for allocating future increases in Cooperative Program budget funds called the Cooperative... Continue Reading »

Bethea Baptist Retirement Community is hosting a free lunch for pastors attending the 2007 South Carolina Baptist Pastor"s Conference Nov. 12 in nearby Florence.... Continue Reading »

Terry Corder, pastor of Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church, Jefferson, will allow his name to be?placed into nomination?for the office of registration secretary of the South Carolina Baptist Convention when the annual meeting convenes in Florence, Nov. 13-14.... Continue Reading »

?It was a day I will never forget,? said Frank Page, pastor of Taylors First Baptist Church, referring to the outdoor baptism of 76 people on Sept. 30 at Paris Mountain State Park in Greenville. For Taylors First, this... Continue Reading »

Members of Park Baptist Church, Rock Hill, celebrated 100 years of ministry on Sept. 16. The congregation's first 50 years were retraced by Alma Steele and Ella Ramsey during the early service, and its past 50 years were recounted... Continue Reading »

Missionaries from all corners of the world were on the North Greenville University campus for three days to interact with students through a global village, lectures and in-between class conversations. From Sept. 10-12, NGU hosted the sixth annual Global... Continue Reading »

Three hundred and eleven years ago, William Screven and 28 others from a 14-year-old congregation in Kittery, Maine, set sail for Charleston in search of religious freedom. On Sept. 30, members of the earliest Baptist church in the South... Continue Reading »

Jeff Futrell was named director of missions emeritus during the September meeting of Ridge Baptist Association, which was held at First Baptist Church, Batesburg.... Continue Reading »

Meeting at Charleston Southern University Oct. 1, members of the South Carolina Baptist Historical Society pondered the question, ?What is a Baptist university??... Continue Reading »

Nursing students at Francis Marion University are getting a taste of what it's like to be nurses at Bethea Baptist Retirement Community in Darlington. The students pair up and go to Bethea once weekly for a month-long clinical rotation... Continue Reading »

Fred Goldman was excited about the prospect of seizing a valuable possession from O.J. Simpson. In 1995, Simpson was famously acquitted of murdering Ron Goldman, Fred's son, and Simpson's ex-wife, Nichole Brown. But following the acquittal, a civil court... Continue Reading »

Markus Gattner has experienced firsthand why sometimes God lets bad things happen to good people. As a German exchange student last year, Gattner was placed in a home in Lyman where the living situation was deemed unfit and he... Continue Reading »