William Screven of Kittery, Maine, uproots his small congregation and moves to South Carolina. They become First Baptist Church of Charleston, the first Baptist church in the South.

Oliver Hart, pastor of First Baptist Church of Charleston, has a vision of churches coming together to bring the Gospel to pioneers and Native Americans. The Charleston Baptist Association, the South's first cooperative association, was born.

Philip Mulkey, a Separate Baptist, moves from North Carolina to South Carolina to start new churches. These "New Lights," as they were called, spread across the Upstate, starting churches in many communities.

Richard Furman joined Oliver Hart in Charleston to petition for religious freedom from the Anglican Church. After the war, Furman's vision for missions and education led to a love for foreign missions and educational opportunities for pastors.

Hepzibah Jenkins Townsend created the first women's missions organization in the South. The Wadmalaw and Edisto Female Mite Society baked bread to raise money for foreign missions already supported by Furman.

Furman's vision for statewide cooperation between churches led to a convention plan, pulling three state associations together. That year, the South Carolina Baptist Convention was organized at First Baptist Church, Columbia. It was the first Baptist convention in the South.

William Bullein Johnson, who was present at SCBC's organization, attended a convention to discuss a cooperative organization of Baptist churches in the South. The vision gained support, and Johnson became the first president of the Southern Baptist Convention.

A group of women, led, in part, by Martha McIntosh, wanted to organize missionary and mite societies into a statewide women's missions organization. Their efforts launched the Central Committee of the Baptist Woman's Missions Societies (Woman's Missionary Union) at Welsh Neck Baptist Church in Society Hill.