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Frank Zedick of Durham, N.C., died April 3, 2016. He was a former pastor of Durbin Creek Baptist Church and Bethany Baptist Church, both of Fountain Inn, and Dillon First Baptist Church. He also served churches in North Carolina.... Continue Reading »
Jim Wilson, of Anderson, died April 9, 2016. A member and deacon at Anderson First Baptist Church, he served as music minister in several Upstate churches over the past 60 years. He was owner of Jim Wilson Realty and... Continue Reading »
Mario Vargas, 77, of Camden, died March 17, 2016. A native of El Salvador, he studied at the Baptist Seminary in Mexico City, Mexico, and the Hispano-American Seminary in Los Angeles, Calif. Over the course of 50 years, he... Continue Reading »
Leroy McKinley Sheppard II, 45, of Spartanburg, died April 7, 2016. He served as youth and children’s minister at the Laotian Baptist Mission, and founded and directed Shepherd’s Door Ministries for over 10 years. He was a member of... Continue Reading »
Kenneth Wade Rooks, 43, of Simpsonville, died April 4, 2016. He was born in Griffin, Ga., and was a graduate of Georgia Tech and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and was teaching pastor and minister of outreach at Simpsonville First... Continue Reading »
Cooperative Program gifts from South Carolina Baptist Convention churches are $250,408 ahead of last year’s pace but 4.44 percent below budgeted needs through the first three months of 2016. Through March, churches forwarded $6,808,525 to the SCBC, $316,474 short... Continue Reading »
Harold Patrick Perry, 81, of Simpsonville, died March 10, 2016. Born in Monticello, Ga., he was a graduate of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and Furman University. He served as pastor of churches in Greenville and in Kentucky for 23... Continue Reading »
Cynthia Denise Morris, 55, former director of the Childhood Ministry Group of the South Carolina Baptist Convention, died March 27, 2016, in Ocean Springs, Miss., from complications related to diabetes. Morris served the SCBC from 1996-2014. She was a... Continue Reading »
Richard F. Burgess, 83, of Marietta, died April 10, 2016. Born in Pickens County, he served as a minister prior to his retirement, and was a member of Cox Chapel Baptist Church. Survivors include his wife, Callie C. Anderson... Continue Reading »
Most of us were shocked when we saw the video of orange-clad Coptic Christians kneeling in their last moments just before being beheaded by ISIS. We were alarmed when we heard about the Muslim terrorist group Boko Haram kidnapping... Continue Reading »
For Christian music recording artist Laura Story, ministry is a family affair. “I travel doing music, and the kids are able to travel with me,” she said. “Even though that is so different from the way I grew up,... Continue Reading »
After lengthy and often passionate debate over the future of White Oak Conference Center near Winnsboro, the Executive Board of the South Carolina Baptist Convention voted overwhelmingly to “authorize the Properties Committee [of the board] to work with the... Continue Reading »
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