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Resolutions to be considered at the 2017 South Carolina Baptist Convention annual meeting are due by midnight Oct. 8. Submissions must include the author’s name, address, email address (if applicable), daytime and cell phone numbers, plus the name and... Continue Reading »
At 2017’s midpoint, Cooperative Program gifts received by the South Carolina Baptist Convention trailed budgeted needs by $892,700. Through June, churches forwarded $13,357,299 to the SCBC, which is 6.26 percent short of budgeted needs, according to Pam Carroll, chief... Continue Reading »
Scott Smith absolutely loves going to work every day. When he unlocks the door to the Baptist Collegiate Ministries center at Lander University and crosses the 30 steps to his office, he whispers a prayer: “Lord, help me make... Continue Reading »
When he felt God calling him into new work 15 years ago, David Holland was on staff at The Baptist Church of Beaufort. Fulfilled in ministry and content in his church, Holland says he began to recognize spiritual disconnect... Continue Reading »
Bobby Howard has joined the South Carolina Baptist Convention staff as the new associate director for adults, joining the convention’s Generations Group with a goal of “seeing adults make disciples, growing in their faith, and investing in the lives... Continue Reading »
Making Christ Known on Campus When Ryan Williams graduated from high school and turned his sights toward college life at Winthrop University, he wasn’t pondering spiritual things. “I wasn’t really thinking about what God could do in my life,”... Continue Reading »
Out of 33 qualifying people, only eight took the South Carolina Baptist Convention’s early retirement incentive — three at the Baptist Building and five at White Oak Conference Center. Monty Hale, church development, accepted the retirement offer and has... Continue Reading »
Writers: Butch Blume and Scott Vaughan Summertime is camp time, and upwards of 22,000 teens and children will spend a week or more at one of several South Carolina Baptist Convention-related camps in June, July and August. And while... Continue Reading »
Trained literacy missions volunteers from South Carolina and neighboring states are partnering to reach Syrian refugees through a 10-week pilot language project anchored in Europe. Former missionaries and members of the National Literacy Missions organization collaborated to develop the... Continue Reading »
Since 1987, SummerSalt has served as the South Carolina Baptist Convention’s high-energy summer camp designed, per the www.summersalt.org website, to grasp and captivate the next generation with the Gospel. This summer, the five weeks of Summersalt and two weeks... Continue Reading »
Since opening in 1983, Camp La Vida, near Winnsboro, has served South Carolina Baptists as a missions discipleship camp for 35 years. This year, more than 1,300 campers, girls and boys ages 2nd-12th grades, are expected to attend one... Continue Reading »
An early retirement incentive recently offered to 33 employees of the South Carolina Baptist Convention does not reflect immediate serious financial difficulties for the state denomination, even though Cooperative Program support from churches has tumbled over the past decade... Continue Reading »
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