Stories tagged with: south carolina

• South Carolina Baptists give every inmate a gift

  by Tess Schoonhoven, posted Wednesday, December 11, 2019 (4 years ago)

  

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  COLUMBIA, S.C. (BP) -- Sharing the love of the Christmas season came through individual gifts to every inmate in South Carolina this year, provided by churches and associations in the South Carolina Baptist Convention (SCBC).

  The prisoner packet ministry has been going on for the past 40 years.

  Jon Jamison, serve team leader of South Carolina Baptist Convention, said the point of the ... Read More

• S.C. convention elects first African American president

  by Todd Deaton, posted Monday, November 18, 2019 (4 years ago)

  

  MOORE, S.C. (BP) -- The 759 registered messengers to the South Carolina Baptist Convention's 199th Annual Meeting made history Nov. 12 by electing a Simpsonville pastor as the first African American to serve as president.

  Meeting at the Church at the Mill in Moore, under the theme "Engage," South Carolina Baptists were challenged by keynote speakers -- Brentwood, Tenn., pastor Mike Glenn; Chattanooga, Tenn., pastor Micah Fries; Jacksonville, Fla., pastor H.B. Charles Jr.; and Edgar Aponte of Lutz, Fla., -- to actively engage the culture, the lost, the nations and the future. Read More

• S.C. Baptists build Gospel bridges spanning barriers

  by Butch Blume/Baptist Courier, posted Tuesday, November 20, 2018 (5 years ago)

  

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  CHARLESTON, S.C. (BP) -- Holding their 198th annual meeting under the theme of "Building Bridges," South Carolina Baptists committed to advancing the Gospel and healing racial divisions in their home state and beyond.

  An emotional high point of the Nov. 13-14 gathering was an evening worship service at Charleston's Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, also known as Mother Emanuel, a church revered as one of the oldest independent black congregations in the South.

  Mount Moriah Missionary Baptist Church, a historically African-American congregation in ... Read More

• At Mother Emanuel, S.C. Baptists seek racial unity

  by Butch Blume/Baptist Courier, posted Tuesday, November 20, 2018 (5 years ago)

  

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  CHARLESTON, S.C. (BP) -- About 300 worshipers filled the sanctuary of historic Mother Emanuel Church Nov. 13 for a session of South Carolina Baptists' annual meeting, held at the site of the 2015 massacre of nine black worshipers by a self-avowed white supremacist. An overflow crowd of 400 watched from closed-circuit TV at the nearby Citadel Square Baptist Church.

  South Carolina Baptist Convention (SCBC) President Marshall Blalock had arranged for SCBC messengers to hold evening worship at the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in keeping with the annual meeting theme, "Building Bridges." Read More

• 400 S.C. Baptists 'Unite' for citywide evangelism

  by Butch Blume, posted Monday, November 20, 2017 (6 years ago)

  

  Photo by Burnie Flake/Baptist Courier

  COLUMBIA, S.C. (BP) -- Gathering under the banner of "Unite," messengers to the 197th annual meeting of the South Carolina Baptist Convention sang, prayed, conducted business and fanned out across the city of Columbia for a "One Day" missions and evangelism effort.

  Keith Shorter, SCBC president and pastor of Mt. Airy Baptist Church in Easley, opened the Tuesday morning session of the Nov. 7-8 meeting by encouraging Christ's followers to unite as one "so that … a lost and divided world may believe that God sent [Jesus]." Read More

• S.C. Baptists urged to 'launch out' with Gospel

  by Butch Blume, posted Friday, November 18, 2016 (7 years ago)

  

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  COLUMBIA, S.C. (BP) -- Churches were urged to "launch out" and spread the Gospel as messengers gathered for the South Carolina Baptist Convention annual meeting Nov. 15–16 at Riverland Hills Baptist Church outside Columbia.

  "'Launch Out' is not a suggestion, it is a command from our Lord," 2016 convention President Tom Tucker told messengers at the outset of the SCBC's 196th annual meeting, taking his inspiration from Luke 5, where Jesus said to Peter, "Launch out into the deep, and let down your nets for a great catch."

  "We're sitting on the dock of the bay, wasting time," Tucker said, invoking a popular song from the 1960s. "We're told to launch out and tell someone that Jesus loves them. If you are saved, you've got a story." Read More

• S.C. joins 13 states banning abortion at 20 weeks

  by Diana Chandler, posted Thursday, May 26, 2016 (8 years ago)

  COLUMBIA, S.C. (BP) -- South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley has signed into law a bill banning most abortions in the state at 20 weeks of pregnancy, joining 13 other states where such limitations currently stand.

  Haley signed the South Carolina Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act May 25 after the Legislature sent it to her desk a week earlier. Read More

• Proposed S.C. refugee registry draws criticism

  by Tom Strode, posted Wednesday, March 30, 2016 (8 years ago)

  "Whatever one thinks about refugee policy, this bill is a step backward on religious freedom."

  -- Russell Moore

  WASHINGTON (BP) -- Evangelical advocates for religious liberty and refugee resettlement are dismayed by proposed legislation in South Carolina that could penalize churches that aid exiles from other countries.

  The South Carolina Senate passed legislation March 23 to require a sponsoring organization to register a refugee with the state's Department of Social Services within 30 days after he or she enters the state. In addition, the sponsor would be "strictly liable" in civil court if the refugee commits an act of terrorism or another violent crime. Read More

• Gary Hollingsworth elected exec. director in S.C.

  by Butch Blume/The Baptist Courier , posted Friday, January 15, 2016 (8 years ago)

  

  Photo by Burnie Flake

  GREENVILLE, S.C. (BP) -- Gary Hollingsworth, a long-serving pastor and denominational leader with a record of church planting and international missions support, has been elected executive director-treasurer of the South Carolina Baptist Convention.

  He received the unanimous support of more than 330 SCBC messengers who convened Thursday (Jan. 14) for a special called meeting of the state convention at Shandon Baptist Church in Columbia. Read More

• S.C. Baptists tap reserves to send $1M gift to IMB

  by Scott Vaughan/South Carolina Baptist Convention, posted Wednesday, December 16, 2015 (8 years ago)

  

  COLUMBIA, S.C. (BP) -- The South Carolina Baptist Convention has pledged to send a $1 million year-end gift to the International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention at a time when the missions entity has announced a reduction in its worldwide force due to budget shortfalls.

  The IMB announced earlier this year that it would need to reduce its total number of missionaries and staff by 600-800 due to expenditures that exceeded revenues by $210 million over the past six years. Read More