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Stephen Splawn has joined the staff of the South Carolina Baptist Convention as an evangelism and African-American ministries strategist. His work will focus on relational disciple-making and African-American engagement. Splawn will help facilitate the work of the Immersion Network... Continue Reading »
In 2017, the South Carolina Baptist Convention Executive Board committees will be organized in a way that provides seamless work with the state convention staff toward accomplishing the priorities of evangelism, missions mobilization, church revitalization, and church planting. Approval... Continue Reading »
The South Carolina Baptist Convention has engaged Josh Powell, a Lexington pastor, to write a new history of the state denomination, with an expected release date close to the convention’s 200th anniversary in 2020. The convention’s history committee is... Continue Reading »
John Goudelock (left), associate pastor of Living Water Baptist Church in Longs (Waccamaw Association) was elected chairman of the Executive Board of the South Carolina Baptist Convention Dec. 8. Serving with Goudelock in 2017 will be vice chairman Tommy... Continue Reading »
To make it plain and simple, South Carolina Baptist Disaster Relief needs churches to send missions volunteers for statewide service in the coming year. The effects of flooding in October 2015 are still being felt by dozens of Pee... Continue Reading »
South Carolina Baptists provided 23,957 prisoner packets for state inmates this holiday season. On Monday, Dec. 5, at St. Andrews Baptist Church in Columbia, about 130 volunteers and inmates from four institutions worked together to check the contents and... Continue Reading »
The tiny community of Nichols dodged direct impact from October’s Hurricane Matthew but caught the brunt of tremendous flooding two days later. Water from the Lumber River surged through the town of 400 residents, destroying homes, vehicles and personal... Continue Reading »
South Carolina Woman’s Missionary Union is more actively involved in touching lives than most churches know. A lot of people think WMU, an auxiliary to the Southern Baptist Convention and to state conventions, is dying, but that’s not true.... Continue Reading »
Keith Shorter, pastor of Mount Airy Baptist Church in Easley and new president of the South Carolina Baptist Convention, has had the opportunity to prepare for his assignment by serving over the past year as the first president-elect of... Continue Reading »
Churches are reminded that the South Carolina Baptist Convention will count the following as 2016 contributions: Hand-delivered contributions received by the close of business on Dec. 22; electronic contributions with a transaction date on or before Dec. 31; mailed... Continue Reading »
Editor’s note: This story was updated Nov. 22, 2016, to include the number of churches represented at the SCBC annual meeting. Photos by Burnie Flake With the theme “Launch Out,” South Carolina Baptist Convention church messengers gathered Nov. 15-16... Continue Reading »
South Carolina Baptists Nov. 16 elected new officers and heard from the Southern Baptist Convention’s chief public policy official on the second and final day of the 196th annual meeting of the South Carolina Baptist Convention. Russell Moore, president... Continue Reading »
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