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EDITOR’S NOTE: Please see additional story featuring inmate’s testimony below this article. Robed in caps and gowns over their white prison uniforms, 33 inmates in Texas’ maximum security Darrington Prison Unit made history May 9 as they received bachelor’s... Continue Reading »
Daniel Dickard, a native of South Carolina, has received the 2015 LifeWay Pastoral Leadership Award and the G.R. and Jessie Klempnauer Memorial Academic Award at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. The LifeWay award is given in recognition of outstanding achievement... Continue Reading »
Richard McWhite has been called as pastor of Redd’s Branch Baptist Church in Aiken. He previously served as an interim pastor in Greenville and as a senior pastor in Barnwell. He also has served churches in South Carolina and... Continue Reading »
Shiloh Baptist Church in Aiken held a mortgage-burning service on April 12. The church paid off a $250,000 loan for an “Extreme Church Makeover.” The 10-year note was paid off four years early thanks to the faithful giving of... Continue Reading »
John D. Chambers has been called as pastor of Ridge Spring Baptist Church in Ridge Association. He formerly served as pastor of Rocky Springs Baptist Church in Wagener. He and his wife, Stacy, are the parents of sons John... Continue Reading »
The restaurant walls are covered with Scripture verses. A Bible and calendar with daily devotions sit on each table. The sign outside the building says Barry’s Cheese Steaks — a restaurant in Louisville, Ky. — but the employees and... Continue Reading »
After Gardner-Webb University alumnus Frank S. Page lost his daughter to suicide, he discovered a calling to help others battling mental health illnesses. Page, now president of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee, visited GWU March 17 to encourage... Continue Reading »
Southern Baptists planted 985 new churches in 2014 — a 5 percent increase over 2013 church starts. This is very good news as we work toward diminishing the church-to-population deficit that steadily grew larger over the last century in... Continue Reading »
Lt. Col. Derrick Riggs’s life is not boring. Today he is serving in Afghanistan as command chaplain for NATO Special Operations and the Special Forces Joint Task Force. Riggs’s parents, retired Col. Dwight Riggs and his wife, Kathy, reside... Continue Reading »
North Greenville University’s board of trustees has named Randall Pannell as interim president. The decision is in response to Jimmy Epting’s announcement of his sabbatical and retirement effective June 1. Pannell came to the institution in 2011 when he... Continue Reading »
Al Phillips, former associate pastor of First North Spartanburg Baptist Church, has been called as director of missions for Greenville Baptist Association. Phillips, who was elected at a called meeting of the association on Jan. 27, succeeds Ron Davis,... Continue Reading »
EDITOR’S NOTE: Jim Burton says he never set out to be a Korean church planter, but God orchestrated the opportunity with a multi-generation congregation in metro Atlanta. Burton shares his story of leading the church to plant new churches.... Continue Reading »
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