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Bethea Retirement Community to expand in 2O19

Bethea Retirement Community has announced plans to expand its Darlington campus with a state-of-the-art nursing and rehab center and 18 new cottages. Bethea executive director Ben Spurling said the $29 million expansion represents the first new construction on the... Continue Reading »

Daniel Godfrey is new exec. dir. of Broad River Association

Daniel Godfrey has been called as executive director of Broad River Baptist Association. He is a graduate of North Greenville University and Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. Godfrey previously served as pastor of Arrowwood Baptist Church in Chesnee. He and... Continue Reading »

State convention messengers to consider bylaw change

Messengers to the 2O18 annual meeting of the South Carolina Baptist Convention, to be held Nov. 13-14 in North Charleston, will consider a bylaw change that would require individuals considered by the convention’s Nominations Committee to commit in writing... Continue Reading »

Savannah River Assoc. calls Woody Oliver as new DOM

Woody Oliver has been called as director of missions for Savannah River Baptist Association. He previously served Harmony Baptist Church in Edgemoor and Woodfields Baptist Church in Greenwood. He has chaired the Nominations Committee and By-Laws Committee of the... Continue Reading »

Schrieffers honored for legacy giving to S.C. Baptist Foundation

Mary Melle “Met” Burgess Schrieffer recently accepted the South Carolina Baptist Foundation’s Lonnie H. Shull Jr. Legacy Award for her and her late husband’s (George Alan Schrieffer’s) support of the foundation through the establishment of legacy gifts. Her husband... Continue Reading »

Obituary: Glenn Ailshie

Glenn Edgar Ailshie, 79, of Marion, died Aug. 30, 2018. He was pastor of Christian Faith Baptist Church, Marion, where he served for 33 years. He attended the University of Tennessee and Tusculum University, and was called to preach... Continue Reading »

Obituary: Ramon Eugene Ergle 

Ramon Eugene Ergle, 82, of Aiken, died Sept. 3, 2018. Born in Aiken County, he was a graduate of North Greenville Junior College, Furman University and Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. He served as both a full-time and bivocational pastor... Continue Reading »

Obituary: Earl Pitts

Earl Haskel Pitts, 93, of Simpsonville, died Aug. 22, 2018. He served in the Navy during World War II and was a graduate of Furman University and Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. He began Laurel Baptist Mission in Greenville in... Continue Reading »

Religious liberty org. to hold training session Oct. 15 in Columbia

Alliance Defending Freedom will hold a training session Oct. 15 in Columbia for faith leaders, legislators and others interested in learning more about protecting religious liberty. The event will be held at Columbia First Baptist Church, 1306 Hampton St.,... Continue Reading »

Dillon First Baptist Church serves community in Florence aftermath

Southern Baptist Disaster Relief volunteers came to bring help, healing and hope to Hurricane Florence survivors in Dillon, S.C. And they were met with overwhelming support and appreciation from the community and their host, First Baptist Church of Dillon.... Continue Reading »

S.C. Baptist Disaster Relief official sees urgency in getting roofs patched

With many South Carolina communities still plagued by flooding, Southern Baptist Disaster Relief volunteers have been working tirelessly to help survivors of Hurricane Florence since its landfall on Sept. 14. Several flooded rivers were expected to crest Sept. 26,... Continue Reading »

With more Florence-fed flooding likely, S.C. Baptist volunteers remain on the scene

Although South Carolina was spared the worst of Florence’s hurricane-force winds and storm-surge flooding, officials are still concerned that heavy rainfall will lead to freshwater flooding along the Waccamaw and Little rivers in Horry County, and South Carolina Baptists... Continue Reading »