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Veteran construction superintendent joins SCBC as RebuildSC coordinator

Jack McCormick of Anderson, a Mission Service Corps (MSC) missionary with the North American Mission Board, will serve as the RebuildSC coordinator, providing overall coordination of rebuild efforts from October’s 2015 “thousand year” flooding throughout the state. McCormick will... Continue Reading »

SCBC Executive Board hears from new executive director-treasurer Gary Hollingsworth

Going forward in 2016, South Carolina Baptists will embrace a vision of seeing “every life saturated and transformed by the hope of the Gospel, beginning in South Carolina” and extending to everyone on the globe. That was the message... Continue Reading »

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SCBC official details costs to operate, maintain White Oak Conference Center

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 »

State CP giving ahead of last year’s pace

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 »

SCBC Executive Board seeking buyer for White Oak Conference Center

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 »

SummerSalt impacts lives; reveals ministry plans to staffers

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 »

SCBC accepting recommendations for boards, committees

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 »

Vision casting moves church from divided to united

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 »

Spartanburg pastor touts SCBC church multiplication process

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 »

State leaders discuss church revitalization

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 »

Loving ‘the People Nobody Wants’

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 »

‘Her Way’: How a daughter of the Palmetto State ‘blazed the missions trail’ in the antebellum South

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 »