The South Carolina Baptist Convention began the FINISH initiative to encourage and serve churches in helping find, engage, serve, and share the hope we have in Christ with people from diverse groups whether refugees, immigrants, businesspeople, or students. Recent statistics show the foreign-born population is growing faster in our state than the total population. The
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For Tiepeng Lyu, a Chinese church planter with the South Carolina Baptist Convention, the road to ministry was anything but ordinary. His experiences, from attempting to summit Mount Everest to facing unexpected challenges, ultimately led him to plant a church in Columbia, South Carolina. And while summiting Everest was once his dream, Lyu has come
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In the Upstate, Associational Mission Strategist Mike Wallace of the York Baptist Association (YBA) is leading a network of 79 churches, teaching them how to be healthy and on-mission. Through coaching pastors and training churches, Wallace’s desire is to see healthy churches supported by healthy pastors.  Partnering with Churches Abroad For the past seven years,
Research has shown that in the decades to come one of the fastest growth areas for the church in America are ethnic peoples that live in our own communities. From 1990 to 2020, South Carolina’s total popluation grew by 48% – from 3.5 million people to 5.2 million people. In that same period, SC’s foreign-born
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Red Path Baptist Fellowship aims to reach the Catawba Indian Nation located near Rock Hill, South Carolina. Of the 574 federally recognized tribes in the United States, the Catawba Indian Nation is the only one located in South Carolina. There are currently over 3,300 enrolled members of the Nation, and Red Path Baptist Fellowship is
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The Multi-Ethnic Pastors and Wives Retreat gathered pastors from across the state for fellowship, prayer, and encouragement. The retreat, organized by SCBaptist’s Send Team, welcomed ethnic pastors and their spouses from across South Carolina. Pastors hailed from diverse corners of the world, including Cambodia, China, Haiti, Ukraine, Mexico, Peru, and Vietnam. Throughout the retreat, attendees
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A significant milestone has been reached with the establishment of the first-ever evangelical Vietnamese Church in the midlands. Led by Pastor Charlie Nguyen, Good News Vietnamese Church has grown in numbers and is making an impact on the Vietnamese community in the area. In 2019, the Columbia Metro Baptist Association first made contact with Nguyen
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“My life is not my own,” Jonathan Edney said. While many believers may come to this realization at one point or another in their spiritual walk, Jonathan realized this while he was actively going through radiation and cancer treatment. “God had broken me physically through the illness and the treatment,” he said. He felt that
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Seventeen years ago, one refugee family relocated from Myanmar (Burma) in Southeast Asia to Columbia, South Carolina, to begin a new life. The family came with a desire to start a church that would reach other families from their homeland. Ryan Dupree, International Ministries Pastor at FBC Columbia, helped them turn a home Bible study
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