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AU professor Chris Neuenschwander receives 2016 teaching award

Chris Neuenschwander, a business professor at Anderson University, has been named the recipient of the Christian Business Faculty Association’s Teaching Award for 2016. The award was established to perpetuate Christlike teaching and to recognize Christian business faculty members who... Continue Reading »

Two pastors vie for office of SCBC president-elect

Pastors Bart Kelley and Marshall Blalock will be nominated for president-elect of the South Carolina Baptist Convention at the denomination’s annual meeting Nov. 15-16 at Riverland Hills Baptist Church in Columbia. The president-elect will serve a one-year term and... Continue Reading »

‘Tidal Shift’: The Case for Bivocational Ministry

Bivocational ministry may be the new normal. More and more, congregations and ministers are seeing the advantages of this style of ministry. For some, bivocational ministry is born of financial necessity; for others, it is a deliberate commitment without... Continue Reading »

State CP giving remains ahead of 2015 pace

Cooperative Program gifts received by the South Carolina Baptist Convention continue to run ahead of last year’s pace, according to information released by Pam Carroll, SCBC chief financial officer. At the three-quarter mark for fiscal 2016, churches had forwarded... Continue Reading »

Bryant Sims to be nominated for SCBC first VP

Bryant Sims, pastor of First Mount Moriah Baptist Church in Greenwood, will be nominated for first vice president of the South Carolina Baptist Convention when church messengers convene Nov. 15-16 in Columbia for their annual meeting. Sims, who currently... Continue Reading »

SCBC Executive Board approves budget, looks to future of ministry in South Carolina

The South Carolina Baptist Convention’s Executive Board adopted a $28.5 million budget for 2017 at its one-day fall board meeting Oct. 18 in Columbia. The board meeting was rescheduled from Oct. 10-11 because of a statewide focus on disaster... Continue Reading »

Blythewood church member to be included as trustee nominee for Baptist Foundation

Donna Thompson, a member of Cedar Creek Baptist Church in Blythewood, has been added to a group of nominees who will be considered as trustees for the Baptist Foundation of South Carolina when messengers to the South Carolina Baptist... Continue Reading »

‘Love where you live’ shown to S.C. storm survivors

Writer: Josie Rabbit Dwight Herring didn’t know the men and women standing next to him as they prepared to make the drive from Greenwood, S.C., across the state to Florence, S.C., on Oct. 14 to serve Hurricane Matthew survivors.... Continue Reading »

NewSpring among largest, fastest-growing churches in U.S

Two other Palmetto State churches included on top-100 list Twenty Southern Baptist congregations are among the 2016 top 100 fastest growing and largest participating churches in the U.S., with NewSpring Church in Anderson, S.C., ranking highest in both categories... Continue Reading »

Wes Brashier to join Anderson Univ. as assoc. VP, campus minister

Anderson University named Samuel Wesley “Wes” Brashier to its Christian Life Team Oct. 17. In the newly created role of associate vice president for Christian life and campus minister, Brashier will assist vice president and senior campus pastor Bob... Continue Reading »

State Baptists respond to South Carolinians affected by Hurricane Matthew

From the South Carolina Baptist Convention website: South Carolina Baptists are responding to meet needs in the name of Christ after the hurricane. All Disaster Relief units are on ALERT to respond, as we expect to be engaged with... Continue Reading »

From SCBC Disaster Relief: Preparing for Hurricane Matthew

From the South Carolina Baptist Convention website: On this anniversary week of the 2015 flood, our state is preparing for impact from Hurricane Matthew. Storm surge will be significant, and is the most dangerous aspect of a hurricane’s effects... Continue Reading »