Pastor Jordan Bird began serving at Talatha Baptist in Aiken, South Carolina in 2015. Since then, the church has sought ways to intentionally raise up pastors to launch into church revitalization or replanting. Pastor Bird suggested that churches of any size looking to hire another full-time staff person should “consider looking for somebody who already
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The South Carolina Baptist Disaster Relief deployed units to both Louisiana and Pennsylvania after Hurricane Ida made landfall in the fall of 2021. The Laurens Baptist Association sent a team to Horsham, Pennsylvania. While the team worked on an extensive mudout job, the chaplain on duty was able to speak with the elderly homeowners. After
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“I couldn’t believe that God already had a plan for me. Before I even came to the US, before I became a believer, God already prepared everything in my heart.” In 2005, Tao Sun came to the United States to study at Iowa State University. A Taiwanese couple opened their home to host him for
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After Hurricane Ida’s devastation hit Louisiana in August of 2021, an SCBC Disaster Relief Chainsaw Unit from Shandon Baptist Church moved in to assist. As the unit shared the Gospel with homeowners impacted by the hurricane, one couple made life-transforming decisions. The husband, a local deputy sheriff, accepted Christ as Savior, and his wife, a
Trudy Crittendon and her husband served several longterm missions with the International Mission Board. Hear Trudy’s story of a life on mission. A native of South Carolina, Trudy grew up in Abbeville Country where she attended Midway Baptist. It was there that her experiences as a GA opened her heart to missions. She married my
In November of 2020, Steadman Baptist Church began the revitalization process in partnership with the Lexington Baptist Association. Just two months prior, interim pastor Johnny Rumbough baptized seven individuals, which was more than the last five years combined. In May of 2021, Pastor Neal Smith was called to lead the church. Since then, the church
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This story comes from International Mission Board writer Caroline Anderson. Women in the slum brothels of Kampala, Uganda, are learning God has not forgotten them, there is hope and redemption in their life stories, and He has given them a new name. IMB missionary Allie White remembers riding in motorcycle taxis past slums housing brothels,
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Charles and Wynelle Middlebrooks, a retired couple living in Chapin, SC, led their church to begin an international missions partnership in Athens, Greece. They went ahead of their team and lived in Athens for three weeks to pilot a “re-hired” mission pathway for retirees to serve on mission. They are a great example of leveraging
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Whitney Jones is a South Carolina native now serving full-time in Africa with the International Mission Board. We were able to sit down with Whitney and hear how the Lord used her time as an intern at the South Carolina Baptist Convention and as a Journeyman with the IMB to call her to the mission
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Robbie McAlister is the People Group Strategist at the South Carolina Baptist Convention. He has heard hundreds of stories of Christians facing persecution in their home countries after accepting Christ as Savior, but one story stands out to him. *Omar is a young Central Asian man. He hopes to better himself, attend college, and become
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