WELCOME
Hello and welcome to the new website of the Carolina Christian Writers Conference. We are so glad you are here and hope you will join us in March.
In case you are not familiar with our conference, let me give you a little backstory. For 12 years the conference took place in Anderson, SC led by Elva Martin. When she was ready to turn it over to someone else, she asked me if I would be willing. I immediately said, “No!” because I was already directing the CLASS Christian Writers Conference and the Glorieta Christian WritersConference, and I thought two was enough. However, I decided I really thought I should pray about it and came up with a fleece to lay before God. Our church rarely had outside events such as the writers conference so I would talk to our assistant pastor about it.
And I was pretty certain he would say no. However, when I went to talk to him, he got very excited at the possibility of our church ministering to writers in this way. He immediately began giving me names of possible keynote speakers, telling me he thought our pastor would be very strongly behind this. So I went back to Elva and said, “Yes!, we would love to move the conference to Spartanburg.”
So began 13 years of wonderful ministry to writers at First Baptist Spartanburg and our country.This past year there were many changes at First Baptist Spartanburg, which created the need for the conference to move to a new location.
So after 25 years, we began to look around Spartanburg County for a new location. After much searching and many churches who were anxious to have us, we have decided to partner withBurnsville Baptist Church between Spartanburg and Simpsonville. It is very easy to get to and abeautiful facility with an amazing staff who shares our excitement about being part of this exciting ministry. We look forward to another quarter century serving God in this way and equipping others to write words that will take His message of love around the world. Oh, how our world needs Him.
My prayer is that every writer in our area will make a special effort to attend this year as web and together to share God’s love with everyone we can, through the spoken word and the written message as we are His hands and feet here. And we want to do that with excellence and passion. Scholarships are available. We have a faculty of wonderful writers to help you take your writing to the next step. We have fun activities with a message to them, one-on-one appointments, contests, and so much more. Don’t miss these exciting few days of learning. We also have a special day for pastors and ministry leaders on Thursday, March 6 so they can talk to publishers how to get their books in print. There is an early bird price that expires mid-February so don’t miss that!
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God bless you and your writing. And if you can’t join us this year, please keep us in your prayers as we follow God’s calling with this conference.
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God bless you in the name of Jesus,
John and Linda Gilden, Conference Directors
info@carolinachristinwritersconference.com
864-309-8644
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