Southern Baptists are responding to the humanitarian crisis caused by the war in Ukraine. The compassion ministry organization of the North American and International Mission Boards (NAMB and IMB) is “Send Relief.” Send Relief is responding through partners on the ground (national and other trusted partners). They continue to ramp up response to this major
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We are very pleased to announce that Susan Peugh is now the third director in the 33-year history of SCBC Disaster Relief. Peugh (pronounced PEW) is uniquely qualified to lead in DR ministries. At a recent meeting with DR leaders, she stated that she could see God bringing together her various past ministry experiences to
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Last fall, Origins Church provided breakfast for Legacy Early College and had a meeting with their principal. As a result, they learned that their recently opened K-4 school did not have a church partner. They met with the principal of 4K Center who shared some needs with them. Initially, they provided monthly breakfast for teachers,
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Randy Creamer, director of Disaster Relief for the South Carolina Baptist Convention (SCBC) since 2014, announced his retirement last fall, effective at the end of January 2022. An Anderson native, Creamer served as pastor of three SC Baptist churches for a total of 23 years, during which time he was a DR volunteer and coordinator.
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Heart4Schools aims to make relationships with local schools, teachers, staff, and students. For Stony Fork Church, one of their main efforts in their partnership with Mount Holly Elementary School is teacher and staff encouragement. As part of this initiative, they arranged to have the Coffee Bus from Knowledge Perk in the parking lot when teachers
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Following the devastating tornadoes in Kentucky in December, KY Baptist Disaster Relief responded in several towns, including Mayfield. They asked adjacent states to assist but did not request help from states further away. Per the agreement between all state conventions that DR teams do not deploy across state lines unless requested by the affected state,
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Over the last year, there have been at least six specific ethnic churches begun in SC through churches stepping up, embracing God’s heart for the nations, doing the work involved in recruiting and supporting trained ethnic church planters, and seeing them begin to reach people in their own languages. The best way to see unreached
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