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Retirees launch TV/telephone ministry

Writer: Dina Hair A ministry that began after a simple prayer is becoming a God-sized ministry at Martha Franks Baptist Retirement Community in Laurens, and it is having a positive effect on people from all across North America. I... Continue Reading »

Martha Franks presentation

Retirement residents support Mother’s Day Offering

Martha Franks Baptist Retirement Community residents and staff raised $4,648 for the Mother’s Day Offering, a scholarship fund of South Carolina Baptist Ministries for the Aging. Chaplain Russell Dean organizes the annual in-gathering at Martha Franks, where residents and... Continue Reading »

Radebaugh

Christ-centered Bucs program resurges

Writer: Zeke Beam Charleston Southern University’s men’s basketball program has been rebuilt — in more ways than one. This past season, the Buccaneers claimed their first Big South regular-season title in 26 years and reached the postseason for only... Continue Reading »

SCBC Executive Board

Discipleship, pastoral health on Executive Board agenda

At its spring meeting, the Executive Board of the South Carolina Baptist Convention celebrated a supplemental gift from South Carolina Baptists to the International Mission Board and heard reports from the state’s ministry partners. Executive Board members conducted the... Continue Reading »

Connie Maxwell honors volunteers

Approximately 120 volunteers from Greenwood and across the state were on hand recently for a recognition dinner at Connie Maxwell Children’s Home. Polly Davis, director of volunteer services, welcomed the group and thanked them for their assistance. A wide... Continue Reading »

NGU students commissioned

A large number of North Greenville University students were commissioned for summer missions work during an April 29 chapel service. “You don’t need to be a Christian studies major or intercultural studies major to give a significant amount of... Continue Reading »

Whitaker marks 10th anniversary as Anderson University president

As a boy growing up in the 1960s in rural Cleveland County, N.C., Evans Whitaker enjoyed the same things other boys did: jumping creeks, fishing in farm ponds, rummaging through barns, exploring the woods or cutting through a neighbor's... Continue Reading »

Don Kirkland to retire as editor of The Baptist Courier

Don Kirkland, editor and president of The Baptist Courier for the last 16 years, has announced that he will retire at the end of 2012.... Continue Reading »