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Six students with ties to South Carolina graduate from Southern Seminary

Six students with ties to South Carolina graduated from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in the winter commencement ceremony. Southern Seminary conferred degrees to 230 Southern master’s and doctoral students on Dec. 11, 2015. Russell Freeman, pastor of Warrior... Continue Reading »

16 from South Carolina earn degrees at Southeastern Seminary

Update: This story was updated Feb. 17, 2017, to include William Mettauer Crute II of Rock Hill, who earned a master of divinity degree from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in December 2016. Crute’s name was inadvertently left off a... Continue Reading »

Union author publishes storybook to help kids cope with death of sibling

Author and pastor Tommy Mann explains the loss of a baby sibling to young readers in his new children’s book, “Asleep in Heaven’s Nursery for Kids.” More than half a million babies are lost in the womb each year.... Continue Reading »

Connie Maxwell honors “Top 25” churches for financial support

Connie Maxwell is blessed to receive the support it does from faithful churches that see their mission join with ours to reach out to and care for children and families. To celebrate this mission venture with our Top 25... Continue Reading »

South Carolina Baptist Convention

S.C. Baptists to convene Jan. 14 in Columbia to consider candidate for executive director-treasurer

Candidate’s name to be announced Jan. 11 South Carolina Baptists could elect a new executive director-treasurer Jan. 14 when messengers gather for a special called meeting at Shandon Baptist Church in Columbia. In a Dec. 14 letter to the... Continue Reading »

South Carolina Baptists to send $1 million gift to IMB

The South Carolina Baptist Convention has pledged to send a $1 million year-end gift to the International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention at a time when the missionary-sending organization has announced a reduction in its worldwide force... Continue Reading »

Camp Marietta officials seeking buyer to ‘maintain Christian ministry’ of site

Citing increasing regulatory requirements and a decline in financial support, officials of Marietta Baptist Camp and Conference Center have voted to sell the 56-year-old facility. The camp is jointly owned by Greenville and Three Rivers Baptist associations and is... Continue Reading »

Woodruff Baptist Association names Tony Crouch as new DOM

Tony Crouch has been named director of missions for Woodruff Baptist Association. The Greenwood native formerly served as pastor of Fairview Baptist Church in Kinards and Chestnut Ridge Baptist Church in Laurens. Crouch attended the University of South Carolina... Continue Reading »

Courier Publishing releases three new titles

Three new books from Courier Publishing focus on the biblical promise of life to be found in the love and person of Jesus Christ, even as they do so from different approaches. In “You Can Live Until You Die,”... Continue Reading »

Martha Franks marks 30th anniversary of founding

Martha Franks Baptist Retirement Community recently turned 30 years old. The occasion prompted a feature story in the Laurens County Advertiser. The newspaper reported that Martha Franks’ residents said the 55-acre campus elicits a “sense of coming home.” “Just... Continue Reading »

Early SCBC conventioneer

Cory Singleton, pictured with his mom, Connie, was only 5 months old when he attended his first South Carolina Baptist Convention annual meeting 40 years ago, as documented in the Nov. 27, 1975, issue of The Baptist Courier. Today,... Continue Reading »

South Carolina Baptists zero in on personal evangelism at 2015 annual meeting

Writers: Butch Blume & Scott Vaughan In a two-day meeting imbued with a sense of urgency for a return to personal evangelism, South Carolina Baptists gathered for their 195th annual meeting Nov. 10-11 at Spartanburg First Baptist Church under... Continue Reading »