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South Carolina Baptist Convention messengers voted Nov. 10 to disaffiliate with Augusta Heights Baptist Church of Greenville after the church’s pastor performed a same-sex marriage ceremony. Dwight Easler, chairman of the SCBC Executive Board, presented the motion to messengers... Continue Reading »
Kenneth Morgan has been teaching Sunday school for a long, long time. In fact, over the last 61 years, Morgan has probably opened up God’s Word to the people of Red Oak Grove Baptist Church in Modoc (Edgefield Baptist... Continue Reading »
South Carolina Baptist Convention president Tommy Kelly has announced his appointees to the 2016 Committee on Committees, who will consider and present for approval nominees to the convention’s standing committees at the 2016 SCBC annual meeting: Jimmie Davis (Spartanburg... Continue Reading »
Updated Nov. 10, 10:30 a.m. Editor’s note: Messengers to the 2015 annual meeting of the South Carolina Baptist Convention Nov. 10 approved a motion from the SCBC Executive Board that Augusta Heights Baptist Church “be disaffiliated from the South... Continue Reading »
Retired pastor Bill Taylor is returning to preach at a Sumter church he helped found many years ago. Taylor, 88, will bring the Sunday morning message at Westside Baptist Church on Nov. 15. He is the former pastor of... Continue Reading »
On Sunday morning, Oct. 4, Rosewood Baptist Church pastor Bob Morgan and a few lay leaders met to check the church building following overnight flooding. Morning services were cancelled, and the group tended to minor leaks and reinforced other... Continue Reading »
Alissa Cooper Sande, founder of Heart for Uganda, will be the guest speaker on Sunday, Nov. 22, at Red Dam Baptist Church in Hardeeville, S.C. Sande will talk about her Clarion County, Pa.-based organization during the Sunday school hour... Continue Reading »
Five years ago, Central Baptist Church in Gaffney was a completely different church than what it is today. Its fractured congregation struggled with financial debt from a building project, a painful experience with former leadership, and declining attendance. Today,... Continue Reading »
Several members of Ridge Spring Baptist Church’s WMU were honored at an awards ceremony on Oct. 29, in which Saluda Nursing Center received the “Spirit of Caring” award for the Easter Hat Parade sponsored by Ridge Spring Baptist. The... Continue Reading »
The youth group of Hunt’s Memorial Baptist Church, in the Dacusville community, collected enough items during Vacation Bible School this summer to fill 50 shoeboxes for Operation Christmas Child.
Churches experience fluctuations in attendance throughout the year, with some Sundays higher than others as part of a normal, healthy pattern. Yet, sometimes, a gradual decline in attendance can turn into a steep drop, leaving a church in a... Continue Reading »
After years of prayer, pastor Jamey Collins was thrilled to see God open a door at Jamestown Baptist Church in Conway. He and his wife, Paula, had been praying for 18 years for an opportunity to move to the... Continue Reading »
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