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Giving to the Cooperative Program budget of the Southern Baptist Convention was 3.85 percent above budget. Of the $194 million budget, the biggest allotment goes to the International Mission Board at 50.41 percent. Budget giving to the South Carolina... Continue Reading »
Sarah Francis Wilson Webb, 89, of St. Matthews, wife of the late Rev. James L. Webb, died March 25, 2019. Born in Williamston, she was a graduate of Furman University and served with her husband in the U.S. Army,... Continue Reading »
Samuel “Sam” McDaniel Pittman, 90, of Texas, longtime Southern Baptist pastor and denominational executive, died Feb. 16, 2019, following a lengthy illness. A native of Greenville, he was a graduate of Furman University (where he played football on a... Continue Reading »
David Mack “Diesel” Haynie, 77, of Belton, died March 22, 2019, after an extended illness. A native of Belton, he attended Anderson College and Erskine College, and was a graduate of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He supported his growing... Continue Reading »
Vernon “Dusty” William Bradshaw Jr., 56, of Summerville, died March 23, 2019, at Palmetto Heart Center, Columbia. A native of Gastonia, he attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and was a graduate of Gardner-Webb University and... Continue Reading »
George Daniel “Dan” Boineau, 90, of Barnwell, died March 26, 2019. He served in the Air Force from 1951 until 1954 in the 40th Fighter Interceptor Squadron in Japan. He accepted the Lord while in Japan and dedicated the... Continue Reading »
Warren Wiersbe, an author and pastor credited with influencing thousands of preachers toward biblical exposition, died May 2. He was 89. “I first heard Dr. Wiersbe at a Bible conference” in Chattanooga, Tenn., in the early 1960s, said Jerry... Continue Reading »
As recent polls put U.S. church membership at an all-time low and anxiety at an all-time high, some Southern Baptist leaders say the numbers are a wake-up call to Christians’ deep need to take the Great Commission personally. A... Continue Reading »
Parker Foster, of Boiling Springs, was among the hundreds of South Carolina students whose hearts were shaped through participating on mission trips during their spring breaks. While the junior secondary math major at North Greenville University previously had been... Continue Reading »
For the past 15 years, Wynness Thomas has been homebound, battling daily pain from arthritis of the spine and Parkinson’s disease. But this former church pianist and choir member at Tilly Swamp Baptist Church hasn’t let her age or... Continue Reading »
Six South Carolinians were among the nominees to serve on the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee, the four denominational boards, the six seminaries, and the Committee on Order of Business. Selected by the 2019 SBC Committee on Nominations to... Continue Reading »
This year’s meeting of the South Carolina Baptist Pastors Conference will see a couple of changes, according to the group’s president. Schuyler Peterson, pastor of Southside Baptist Church in Spartanburg, said the conference will be held over two days... Continue Reading »
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