S.C. convention extends Empowering Kingdom Growth
COLUMBIA, S.C. (BP)-The South Carolina Baptist Convention's "Empowering Kingdom Growth" emphasis will be extended through 2007, as a recommendation from the state convention's executive board was approved by messengers to the Nov. 13-14 annual meeting at First Baptist Church, Columbia.
Church celebrates God’s blessings with extra Cooperative Program gift
COLUMBIA, S.C. (BP)--God was good to First Baptist in 1999, and the church celebrated the blessings by sending an extra one-12th of its Cooperative Program commitment to the South Carolina Baptist Convention and an additional one-12th of its commitment to the Lexington (S.C.) Baptist Association.