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Bill Pfister

Bill Pfister accepts position with Samaritan’s Purse

Bill Pfister, who served as senior pastor of Locust Hill Baptist Church in Travelers Rest for five years, has accepted a position as international regional director for Samaritan’s Purse/Operation Christmas Child. He has previously served churches in North Carolina... Continue Reading »

Chris Yeargin commissioned as Army chaplain

Chris Yeargin was commissioned recently by Ridge Spring Baptist Church, Ridge Association, to serve as a chaplain in the United States Army. Yeargin, 40, who served as Ridge Spring’s pastor for seven years, is completing training at Fort Jackson,... Continue Reading »

Tony and Mary Ann Crouch

Fairview calls Tony Crouch as pastor

Tony E. Crouch has been called as pastor of Fairview Baptist Church, Kinards. He formerly served as senior pastor of Chestnut Ridge Baptist Church, Laurens. A graduate of Erskine Theological Seminary, Crouch has been in the ministry for more... Continue Reading »

Bryan Cox

Pastor hopes bike ride will spur churches to cooperate in evangelism

Bryan Cox believes churches can work better together to reach people for Christ, and he plans to pedal from one end of the state to the other to make his case. Cox, pastor of New Hope Baptist Church in... Continue Reading »

Small, rural S.C. church typifies ‘the backbone’ of SBC, Page says

It’s fitting that Josh McClendon should pastor 200-year-old Philippi Baptist Church in quaint, rural Johnston, S.C. The 33-year-old said he senses a spiritual calling to the small-town setting. McClendon said his burden for rural communities began during his senior... Continue Reading »

Ken Howell

Men find good food, gospel at ‘The Barn’

On an unseasonably mild late afternoon in February, a setting sun expends the last of its warmth on a red barn in southern Greenville County, about five miles west of Fountain Inn. Two chattering boys toss a football near... Continue Reading »

Hebron calls Bill Greene as pastor

Bill Greene became pastor of Hebron Baptist Church in Scranton on Feb. 2. Joining him are his wife, Lila, and son, Dennis.

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Philippi Baptist Church celebrates 200 years of service

On Feb. 23, Philippi Baptist Church of Johnston celebrated 200 years since the church was organized to serve a rural area of the Johnston community. The bicentennial celebration began with the regular Sunday morning worship services by Philippi pastor... Continue Reading »

Tony Eubanks

Eubanks is new evangelism minister at Simpsonville FBC

Tony Eubanks of Pendleton has been called as minister of evangelism at Simpsonville First Baptist Church. He begins his work April 1. Since 2009, Eubanks has run a spiritual mentoring program called “Spiritual 2-A-Days,” which he founded. He served... Continue Reading »

Are you a Christian counselor? Do our readers know how to find you?

The May issue of the Courier will focus on Christian counseling. We look forward to providing our readers with information about this valuable resource. If you are a credentialed Christian counselor and would like to advertise information about your... Continue Reading »

Ronald “Dee” Vaughan

St. Andrews pastor is writer for Open Windows magazine

Ronald “Dee” Vaughan, pastor of St. Andrews Baptist Church, Columbia, is writer of the May 11-20 devotionals in LifeWay’s devotional magazine, Open Windows.

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Steven Eudy family

New Hope calls Steven Eudy as associate youth pastor

New Hope Baptist Church, Pelzer, recently called Steven Eudy as an associate youth pastor. Eudy grew up in the Fountain Inn/Simpsonville area and was ordained Feb. 16 by Pelzer First Baptist Church, where he and his wife, Dana, have... Continue Reading »