Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D echoed in the sanctuary of Alice Drive Baptist Church’s 11 a.m. service on Sunday as the church celebrated its 20 graduates in a special ceremony. Each graduate was announced and walked across the stage to receive a gift from Lead Pastor Clay Smith. Before the ceremony, most …
Last night, Alice Drive Baptist Church held a family game night at its campuses. As a volunteer on the church’s photo team, I headed south to the Pocalla campus to document their event. Several people of all ages showed up to play card games, Jenga, and other assorted games while enjoying cheese, pepperoni and sausage …
Alice Drive Baptist Church posted a selection of photos I took Friday night at the BLOOM women’s retreat. More than 100 women from the Sumter community attended the two-day event. The church posted the photos from the event in a gallery on its Facebook page. You can check them out here.
I went out to the inaugural event of the Palmetto Shutterbugs photo group in town this morning. It is led by Chris, a fellow former photojournalist. We met at the downtown library location for a short presentation before heading out as a group on a photo walk. A dozen photographers of all skill levels using …
This afternoon, I had the privilege of joining one of the life groups from Alice Drive Baptist Church at a local assisted living facility to photograph their annual Christmas caroling for the residents. People of all ages rode the church bus and sang traditional carols to dozens of residents in both buildings. They also handed …
Image source: Hanukkah. (2023, December 7). In Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanukkah Wishing my Jewish friends a blessed and Happy Hanukkah season, which began at sundown today.
“December 7, 1941—a date which will live in infamy—the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.”— President Franklin D. Roosevelt It was a quiet Sunday morning in the territory of Hawai’i in 1941. People went about with their daily lives: attending church, sleeping …
This evening, the leadership of Alice Drive Baptist Church held an annual ceremony of church deacon ordination. The lighting was a bit of a challenge as the stage lights didn’t illuminate the new deacons who were kneeling and being prayed over in the front of the sanctuary. It reminded me of some of the challenging …
Today was the annual Fall Festival at all three Alice Drive Baptist Church campuses. I was one of three people capturing the event photographically at the main campus. Thousands (my estimate) of people enjoyed a warm South Carolina Sunday afternoon to enjoy the weather, eat cotton candy and popcorn, play in some inflatables and pony …
Our exchange student and I visited the Sumter County Museum this afternoon to check out their Pirate Day festivities. The event seemed geared toward kids and not so much a high school student and her host parent. But we made the best of a beautiful day, walked around, looked at some exhibits, and decided to …
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