A Clear Guide To The South Carolina Baptist Women’s Annual Session

A big church week can feel confusing fast, so we brought in the perfect guide: our sister Antoinette “Sister Toni” Muldrow, longtime leader in Baptist women’s work across South Carolina. She helps us map out what’s happening day by day as the Women’s Baptist E&M Convention of South Carolina convenes at Savannah Grove Baptist Church in Effingham, just outside Florence, SC. If you’ve been searching for a clear schedule and a warm invitation to a meaningful South Carolina church conference, this conversation keeps it simple and practical.

We talk through the 130th annual session from the first registration hour to the final benediction. Monday includes registration and a powerful welcome night featuring guest speaker Lithonia Barnes, mayor of the city of Florence, plus the debut of the Region 6 Women’s Choir. Tuesday brings youth focus and fellowship, a Women in Ministry service, and a unity program led by Kippy Brown, with a community-wide request to wear red (and blue on Monday). Wednesday spotlights YWA fellowship, the president’s annual address, and a Spiritual Life Ministry service where each district represents with color, including District 6 showing up in purple.

We also get into the details that make the week feel like home: food trucks on campus so folks can stay close, vendors traveling in from multiple states, college displays, and yes, the popular sparkly sneakers. The invitation stays wide open: you don’t have to be Baptist, and it’s not just for women, men and youth are welcome to come worship, learn, and connect.

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Transcript

Welcome And Meet Sister Tony

SPEAKER_01 0:04

Hello everyone, welcome to Native Drums. And uh today I have with here my sister, our sister, uh Sister Tony Moldro, Antoinette Muldrow. And um many of you may know and some of you may not know, but the South Carolina Baptist Enum Convention women will be convening here on the beginning the 15th of this month. Well, that's tomorrow. Beginning tomorrow. And um we are delighted to have them come and uh convene here. And uh Sister Moldro here has played many roles uh with the Baptist Baptist women. She has been our president. She has been the president of the missionary here. She's been the president at the Samanga Baptist Church, she's been the president of the district women here um in our district. That's district six. Yeah, PD. PD, all right. And um she is now the secretary, corresponding secretary for um the Baptist women of South Carolina. So, what better person to come and talk about the conference that will be here on next week? Uh so welcome to Native Drums, Tony.

SPEAKER_00 1:23

Thank you. Thank you.

SPEAKER_01 1:23

Yes,

The Week’s Services And Speakers

SPEAKER_01 1:24

yes. So let's talk about um the Baptist women um and what will be taking place here at Savannah Group Baptist Church on this week.

SPEAKER_00 1:32

Okay, starting on Monday, it's our 130th annual session of the Women's Baptist EM Convention. On Monday, we will have registration that will start at 10 o'clock. And following registration, we'll be registration all through the day. At 7 o'clock on Monday night, uh, our very on church member and mayor of the city of Florence, Lithonia Barnes, will be our guest speaker. And we will also have the debut of the Region 6 Women's Choir on Monday night, under your direction. Under your direction. And following the um Welcome Night program, we will have a reception for the president. Uh on Tuesday, our youth will have their annual session starting at 9 o'clock. Well, on Monday night, let me go back. On Monday night, they will have their Monday afternoon they have their pageant and then a welcome uh fellowship for them in the other part of the campus of the um church, in the roots of Savannah. On Tuesday morning, they will open up with their annual session. And then at uh 3 o'clock, the women in ministry will have their service, which will be held in the route, I mean in the sanctuary of the church. And then on Tuesday night, our very own Kippy Brown will bring our unity program. Okay. Uh we are asking everyone to wear red on Tuesday night. And on Monday night, everybody's asked to wear blue. Wednesday morning is the YWA session. I think it's like the 93rd uh session, I may be wrong on that annual session. And they uh everyone's asked to wear white with lavender accessories. Okay. The president, uh Katrina Harrison, will give her annual address. And then again, from three to four of the women in ministry, uh Kathy Charles and Cynthia Walters, they're in charge of that service. They will have their service in the um sanctuary. Then on Wednesday night, the Spiritual Life Ministry will have their service, and we're dividing the church into six um six different colors because each district is to wear their respective color for their district. Okay. The color for our for us, district six, is purple. So we're gonna overflow the church in purple. We're gonna run over in purple Wednesday night. On Thursday morning, the which is um the senior women's day, we will have reports, and then around 11 o'clock, our president, Miss Mary Alice Graham, will give her annual address.

SPEAKER_01 4:07

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 4:08

Thursday night, we will have our annual banquet, which will be held at the Florence Center. And I can't remember off the top of my head who the speaker is, and I know that's bad, but um that's all right, which we know we she'll be there. Yeah, we'll be there. Uh-huh. And then on Friday morning we'll have our business session, and around 11 o'clock, we'll have the closing session with our very own Pastor Ralph Candy giving the closing sermon on Friday afternoon, and Savannah Grove Quiet will render the music.

Food Trucks Vendors And Who Can Come

SPEAKER_00 4:37

So that's a Power Pack week. Yes, fellowship, and we will be having food trucks here on the campus so that people will not have to go all the way back into Florence. They can stay right here, get them a meal, whatever they want to do. And we're just gonna fellowship, have fun, meet old and new friends, yes, and everything.

SPEAKER_01 4:58

Yes, and um vendors will be here.

SPEAKER_00 5:01

Yeah, we have at least 10 vendors along with uh three other colleges, Mars, Benedict, and Erskine. They will have displays here, and we have vendors from North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia that's coming.

SPEAKER_01 5:12

I know someone was asking me about the vendors with those um sparkly shoes. Yes, are they coming? Yes, she will be here.

SPEAKER_00 5:18

Also, ladies, she will be here.

SPEAKER_01 5:21

She will be here with those sparkly sneakers. Yes, so come, come, hey, come and check them out because um that has been a popular um item. It has been. Yes, yes. So um, and anyone is welcome to come.

SPEAKER_00 5:35

You don't have to be Baptist, you can be Methodists, you can be whatever. And you don't have it's not just for the ladies, it's for the men too. Okay, even though we say the women's Baptist EM, but we have we always have men come and fellowship with us. So men come on out and um fellowship with us, but you don't have to be a Baptist.

SPEAKER_01 5:52

Right, that's right, that's right.

SPEAKER_00 5:53

Anybody can come in. We are, you know, like I said, we're inviting the young people to come fellowship, and especially the young ladies from 18 to 45 to um fellowship on that Wednesday.

SPEAKER_01 6:02

On that Wednesday. So um, everyone, you can bring your youth to the session. And that's um Monday night. No, no, no. Monday night is a welcome program, Tuesday.

SPEAKER_00 6:13

But too, but Monday night they will have like their pageant at four o'clock. Okay. They have a pageant over in the roots, and then they will have a fellowship in the roots also. Okay. They'll play games and different activities they'll be having. Oh, awesome, awesome. I think they're gonna do like a one-on-one or mic, some type of mic, you know, everybody, what you call it now?

SPEAKER_01 6:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 6:31

Get up and do their own little thing in the mics. So you know, not dropping the mics, but you know, uh having some type of fellowship with the mics.

SPEAKER_01 6:39

That's great, because we need that for our youth for them to come together and do something different for the Lord. Right. Amen, amen. So um, everyone, you said that's the 10th.

SPEAKER_00 6:51

38th session of the women. And I think it's like the 75th, and I mean we wrote these numbers, 75th, and I shouldn't know it as much as I went through the minutes. 75th for the youth and the 93rd for the white. YWA.

SPEAKER_01 7:08

Yeah. Okay. So um, as she said, everyone is invited. You can bring your youth to the youth sessions and um young women. Uh, the YWA is for you to come and to fellowship and to um uh do ministry with the women of the state of South Carolina. They're coming from all over the state, correct? Right. Yes. All right, and Dr. Mary Ellis Graham is the president. Right. Um, some of you may remember Reverend L. P. Graham. He was the pastor of the New Ebenezer Baptist Church uh years ago, as well as the Metabron Baptist Church. Yes. And so this is his wife. And uh so come on out, even if you just come out and support her on that Thursday uh as she gives her presidential

Tony’s Years In Women’s Ministry

SPEAKER_01 7:56

message. Well, Antoinette, you have been working with uh women's ministry for how long?

SPEAKER_00 8:04

We won't go there. It's been a long time, even before I became a member here at Savannah Grove. Right, I was working with it. So it's been because I was a district president from 88 to 1990. So even before then, I was working with um for BTU and all that. So yeah, so it's been a while. It's been a while, and now grew up in it by itself while in a grandma and all that. We didn't have no other choice.

SPEAKER_01 8:29

We had no other choice. You are exactly right. You're right. And now you are the administrator of the um PD Bats Association.

SPEAKER_00 8:37

Yes, yes. Been there 12 years.

SPEAKER_01 8:40

Wow, it's been that long.

SPEAKER_00 8:41

It's been that long through three administrations. Wow.

SPEAKER_01 8:45

Oh my, how the time flies.

SPEAKER_00 8:47

Yes, and I'm also the administrative specialist for the region, for the region six, um Dr. Leonard King's existing vice president.

SPEAKER_01 8:56

Oh my goodness. So, yeah, they keep you busy. Yes, yes. Well, that's what they do for good people. People who get the job done. Yeah, they keep them busy. And so um, that's a blessing. Yes. You're a blessing to the kingdom. Thank you. We thank God for you. Thank you,

Dates Location And Final Invitation

SPEAKER_01 9:12

thank you. All right, so remember everyone, uh beginning tomorrow, uh the Baptist EM Women's Convention of South Carolina will be here um convening uh the 15th through the 19th. Right, which is Juneteenth on the 19th. So uh doors swing open, Savannah Gold Baptist Church, 2620, Alligator Road, right here in Effingham, South Carolina, which is a rock throw across the ditch to Florence where the pastor is the Reverend Dr. Ralph WCanty Sr. All right, thanks again, Tony, for coming to share with us. We really appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you. All right, everyone, we will see you on next Sunday uh with Native Drums. Have a blessed week.