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Martha Franks Baptist Retirement Community residents and staff raised $4,648 for the Mother’s Day Offering, a scholarship fund of South Carolina Baptist Ministries for the Aging. Chaplain Russell Dean organizes the annual in-gathering at Martha Franks, where residents and... Continue Reading »
NewKirk Baptist Church in Rock Hill dedicated its family life center on April 21. Included in the building are a basketball court, fellowship hall, kitchen, conference room, four classrooms and a large upstairs room for the youth. Pastor Charles... Continue Reading »
“I love you, Daddy.” “I’m so proud of you.” “Thank you for being there for me no matter what.” Surreptitiously handwritten expressions, seemingly from the grave. Melissa Page Strange had written the sentiments on yellow sticky notes to her... Continue Reading »
Martin Wiles — author, minister and teacher — has penned a new devotional book. In “Grits & Grace & God,” Wiles takes readers on a journey on how to swim through financial quagmires. Wiles has served as a regional... Continue Reading »
Darleen Sutton and her husband Jimmy teach 1-year-olds in Sunday school at Pickens First Baptist Church, and she teaches first-graders at Pickens Elementary. She is passionate about teaching, and it is more than just a job for her. In... Continue Reading »
Writer: Zeke Beam Charleston Southern University’s men’s basketball program has been rebuilt — in more ways than one. This past season, the Buccaneers claimed their first Big South regular-season title in 26 years and reached the postseason for only... Continue Reading »
The gathering was officially a special called joint-session business meeting. But it wouldn’t have been too out of place if the fellowship time afterwards had included a white-tiered cake and the throwing of rice. The “two became one” in... Continue Reading »
Randy Creamer has begun work as a part-time adviser for the disaster relief office of the South Carolina Baptist Convention. An Anderson native, Creamer previously served with the North American Mission Board as a disaster relief response coordinator. He... Continue Reading »
Churches that break ties with the Boy Scouts of America are choosing “the only option to avoid compromising biblical truth regarding homosexuality,” according to the chairman of the South Carolina Baptist Convention’s Christian Life and Public Affairs Committee. Hal... Continue Reading »
Broad River Baptist Association recently held its spring meeting, where Donnie Padgett, director of missions since 2000, announced that he will retire at the end of 2013. Pictured, from left: newly elected vice moderator Dwight Easler, pastor of Corinth... Continue Reading »
On Feb. 21, Kimmett Lott, pastor of Providence Baptist Church, St. Matthews, representing a group of churches in Orangeburg-Calhoun Association, presented the keys to a 2001 Chevy S-10 to Jim and Grace Davis, missionaries to Oceania, W.Va. The $4,000... Continue Reading »
Imagine getting a brand-new, larger ministry facility in a prime location, opening new doors to reach a large group of unchurched people — and it comes without a penny changing hands. Baptist Collegiate Ministry at Clemson University is getting... Continue Reading »
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