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The South Carolina Baptist Convention Executive Board, meeting April 25-26 in Columbia, directed its Properties Committee to work with SCBC executive director-treasurer Gary Hollingsworth to pursue finding buyers for the White Oak Conference Center near Winnsboro. At the heart... 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 »
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 »
Registration for the South Carolina Baptist Convention’s 2016 SummerSalt was sold out in early March, a record for the summer youth camp. Staff members anticipate 3,000 students will attend this year’s camps, held at White Oak Conference Center near... Continue Reading »
The South Carolina Baptist Convention is accepting recommendations for persons to serve on the state denomination’s standing committees, on the boards of trustees of the convention’s institutions, and on the SCBC Executive Board. The deadline for receiving recommendations is... Continue Reading »
When Chris Peagler was called to pastor Victory Baptist Church in Bonneau a decade ago, he arrived on the heels of a painful period when the church had gone through nine pastors in 11 years. “People were hurting, and... Continue Reading »
Fountain of Life Church in Spartanburg is primarily an African-American congregation that formed following a church split a decade ago. It had been without a pastor for about a year when the church, with 44 members, called Rickie Sarratt... Continue Reading »
Church growth is a “supernatural event, and therefore church revitalization is more of a spiritual issue than a mechanical one,” said Ken Hemphill, director for North Greenville University’s Center for Church Planting and Revitalization, during a meeting of leaders... Continue Reading »
Grant and Amber Hinson forsake comfort and security to live among the residents of Countryside mobile home park Imagine quitting your job, putting your roomy home up for sale, paring down your possessions by way of a yard sale,... Continue Reading »
Before there was Lottie Moon, Annie Armstrong or Woman’s Missionary Union, there was Hephzibah Jenkins Townsend, who overcame the societal constraints and paternalistic attitudes of her day to found the South’s first missionary society in 1811. In “Her Way:... Continue Reading »
Cooperative Program giving from South Carolina Baptist Convention churches increased in 2015, marking back-to-back years of modest growth. Churches forwarded $27,988,055.32 in CP gifts in 2015, an increase of $362,646.25 (1.31 percent) over 2014, according to information released by... Continue Reading »
At a gathering in late January of Southern Baptist Disaster Relief leaders from several state Baptist conventions, three South Carolina volunteers were recognized for their service. Receiving awards were Steve Shumake of Grace Baptist Church in Sumter, Avery Fox... Continue Reading »
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