The Due West Retirement Center, established in 1983, will celebrate its 25th anniversary today, with activities beginning at 11 a.m. Oct. 11. Full story »

Barbara Stamps Whitfield recently received a degree of Bachelor in Biblical Studies from Covenant College. Full story »

Historic Trinity Episcopal Church in Abbeville will host a community-wide hymn sing at 3 p.m. Sunday. Full story »

Mr. Tom DeRosa, executive director and founder of the Creation Studies Institute of Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., will give two Biblical creationism sessions at Oakwood Christian School on Friday.
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Loss is a part of every person’s life at every stage of life. I lost my Dad a few weeks ago. It was sudden and unexpected. Jerry C. Chapman Sr. was a man whose life touched many people. Full story »

Callie Hanley, 6, cleans her room and feeds the dogs to earn money so she can donate it to a program that provides books to underprivileged children. Full story »

From Sept 29-Oct. 3, the 7th District of the African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church, which encompasses the state of South Carolina, convened in Bradley for the fifth of its 2008 annual conferences titled the Piedmont Annual Conference. Full story »

Escalating prices are having a negative effect on just about everything these days. A project to move an old church in Oconee County is also a victim to rising prices. Full story »

God is always in control even in the unstable times that we are in. Now more than ever we need to continue the race that has been set before us. Full story »

As a minister, I have learned that I walk a very fine line between what I and my congregation can do and cannot do in our house of worship. Full story »

Former Andersonian Marion “Marty” Soards, professor of New Testament studies at Louisville Theological Seminary and an ordained Presbyterian minister, is the guest speaker for the Anderson School of Theology for Laypersons Sunday and Monday. Full story »

Reflective because on Sunday he will deliver his last sermon at the church that he has called his pastoral home for 28 years, Tom Richie has been the longest-serving minister in this church’s 104-year history.
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“The Half-Inch Prophecy” focuses on the following prophecy of the Old Testament: “In that day also he shall come even to thee from Assyria, and from the fortified cities, and from the fortress even to the river, and from sea to sea, and from mountain to mountain.” (Micah, 7:12). In William Sears’ version of the King James Bible this prophecy measures exactly one half an inch, but it contains a world of information. Full story »

Say what you want about sheep’s intelligence and ability to discern. They will not follow the voice of a stranger. When one comes teaching and preaching peculiar doctrine, it will be called into question. Full story »

On Wednesday, July 29, 18 dedicated men, women and children piled into a car, a van, and two trucks, towing a work trailer full of tools, to make a nine-hour, 420-mile trip to the mountains of West Virginia, to a little town called Tornado. Full story »