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North Greenville University
North Greenville University is a private Baptist university in Tigerville, South Carolina. It is affiliated with the South Carolina Baptist Convention (Southern Baptist Convention). It is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. The institution awards bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees. History NGU was founded in 1892 and named North Greenville High School, the first high school in the northern portion of Greenville County. Land for the school was donated by Benjamin F. Neves. It was operated by the North Greenville Baptist Association, and was set up to expand educational offerings in the mountainous northern portion of Greenville County. The school received a state charter in 1904. It was taken over by the Southern Baptist Convention's Home Mission Board a year later, and renamed North Greenville Baptist Academy in 1915. The North Greenville Baptist Association reassumed control of the school in 1929. In 1934, the academy was expanded to i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Private University
Private universities and private colleges are institutions of higher education, not operated, owned, or institutionally funded by governments. They may (and often do) receive from governments tax breaks, public student loans, and grant (money), grants. Depending on their location, private universities may be subject to government regulation. Private universities may be contrasted with public university, public universities and national university, national universities. Many private universities are nonprofit organizations. Africa Egypt Egypt currently has 20 public universities (with about two million students) and 23 private universities (60,000 students). Egypt has many private universities, including The American University in Cairo, the German University in Cairo, the British University in Egypt, the Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport, Misr University for Science and Technology, Misr International University, Future University in Egypt and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WYFF
WYFF (channel 4) is a television station licensed to Greenville, South Carolina, United States, serving Upstate South Carolina and Western North Carolina as an affiliate of NBC. Owned by Hearst Television, the station maintains studios on Rutherford Street (west of US 276) in northwest Greenville, and its transmitter is located near Caesars Head State Park in northwestern Greenville County. History The station first signed on the air on December 31, 1953, as WFBC-TV; it was the fifth television station to sign on in South Carolina, and transmitted its signal from a tower located on Paris Mountain. The station was owned by the Peace family and their News-Piedmont Publishing Company alongside local newspapers ''The Greenville News'' and ''The Greenville Piedmont'', and was a sister station to WFBC radio (1330 AM, now WYRD, and 93.7 FM). For its first two years on the air, the station operated from studio facilities located on Paris Mountain before moving to its current location o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Freddie Martino
Freddie Martino (born September 7, 1991) is a former American football wide receiver. He played college football at North Greenville University and attended North High School in North, South Carolina. He has been a member of the Atlanta Falcons, Philadelphia Eagles, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Arizona Hotshots, Tampa Bay Vipers, and Dallas Renegades. College career Martino played for the North Greenville Crusaders football, North Greenville Crusaders from 2010 to 2013. He recorded 296 receptions for 3,766 yards and 26 touchdowns while scoring 5 rushing touchdowns in 48 career games. He was also named the Conference Carolinas Track Athlete of the Year for the 2013 indoor season. His track coach was Michael Bayne. Professional career Atlanta Falcons Martino was signed by the Atlanta Falcons on May 13, 2014 after going undrafted in the 2014 NFL Draft. He was released by the Falcons on August 29, 2014 and signed to the team's practice squad on September 1, 2014. He made his NFL debut on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Carolina Legislature
The South Carolina General Assembly, also called the South Carolina Legislature, is the state legislature of the U.S. state of South Carolina. The legislature is bicameral and consists of the lower South Carolina House of Representatives and the upper South Carolina Senate. All together, the General Assembly consists of 170 members. The legislature convenes at the State House in Columbia. Prior to the 1964 federal ''Reynolds v. Sims'' decision by the U.S. Supreme Court, each county doubled as a legislative district, with each county electing one senator and at least one representative. Moreover, each county's General Assembly delegation also doubled as its county council, as the state constitution made no provision for local government. The "one man, one vote" provision of ''Reynolds v. Sims'' caused district lines to cross county lines, causing legislators to be on multiple county councils. This led to the passage of the Home Rule Act of 1975, which created county counc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josh Kimbrell
Joshua Brett Kimbrell (born December 18, 1984) is an American aviation leasing operator and politician. He is also a former Christian talk radio host. Kimbrell has served as a member of the South Carolina Senate from the 11th District since his 2020 election. He is a member of the Republican Party. Politics Kimbrell unsuccessfully ran for the United States House of Representatives from South Carolina's 4th congressional district in 2018, finishing fourth in a 13-candidate Republican primary. In 2020, Kimbrell unseated incumbent Democrat Glenn G. Reese, who had held the seat in the South Carolina Senate The South Carolina Senate is the upper house of the South Carolina General Assembly, the lower house being the South Carolina House of Representatives. It consists of 46 senators elected from single member districts for four-year terms at the sa ...'s 11th District since 1991. Personal life In October 2014, Kimbrell was arrested and charged with sex crimes against his 3 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clayton Holmes
Clayton Holmes (born August 23, 1969) is a former professional American football cornerback in the National Football League (NFL) for the Dallas Cowboys. He was drafted in the third round of the 1992 NFL draft. He played college football at Carson-Newman College. Early years Holmes attended Wilson High School where he was a wishbone quarterback. He received All-conference honors at both quarterback and defensive back. He also lettered in baseball, track (long jump) and tennis. He set the state record in the Long Jump. College career Because of grades he enrolled at North Greenville Junior College where he was the starting quarterback and a Junior College All-American. After 2 years, he transferred to Carson-Newman College where he was converted into a cornerback. As a junior, he contributed to a 10-0 regular season record. He led the team in both interceptions (6), passes defensed (17) and interceptions returned for a touchdown (2-school record). He established a school a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elevation Church
Elevation Church is a Baptist Evangelical multi-site megachurch pastored by Steven Furtick, based in Charlotte, North Carolina, affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention.Southern Baptist ConventionElevation sbc.net, USA, Retrieved January 14, 2018 Weekly church attendance was 27,408 people in 2021. Elevation has 23 locations. History The church began as a church plant of the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina, with Steven Furtick and seven other families from Christ Covenant Church in Shelby, North Carolina, relocated to Charlotte, North Carolina, meeting in Providence High School. On February 5, 2006, the first Sunday worship service, 121 people attended.Funk, Tim"A Cool Pastor, and a Hot Church" ''Charlotte Observer'', September 14, 2008. Accessed October 15, 2015. By 2013, the church's regular attendance had grown to nearly 15,000 people weekly. According to a 2018 church census, it claimed a weekly attendance of 25,317 people and 16 campuses in different cities ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steven Furtick
Larry Stevens "Steven" Furtick Jr. (born February 19, 1980) is an American Baptist evangelical Christian pastor, author, and songwriter of Elevation Worship. He is the founder and senior pastor of Elevation Church, based in Charlotte North Carolina . Early life and education Furtick was born and raised in Moncks Corner, South Carolina, and attended Berkeley High School. At the age of 16, after reading the book ''Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire'' by Jim Cymbala, he felt called to pastor a church in a major city. Furtick received a Bachelor of Arts in communication from North Greenville University and a Master of Divinity from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Ministry In 2004, Furtick served as worship leader at Christ Covenant Church in Shelby, North Carolina. In 2006, he moved to Charlotte, North Carolina and founded Elevation Church with seven families and his own. The church had their first service on February 5, 2006. In 2007, he helped found the music group Eleva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rutherford County, Tennessee
Rutherford County is a county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee. It is located in Middle Tennessee. As of the 2021 census, the population was 352,182, making it the fifth-most populous county in Tennessee. A study conducted by the University of Tennessee projects Rutherford County to become the third largest county in Tennessee by population by 2050. Its county seat is Murfreesboro, which is also the geographic center of Tennessee. As of 2010, it is the center of population of Tennessee. Rutherford County is included in the Nashville-Davidson–Murfreesboro–Franklin, TN Metropolitan Statistical Area. History Early history Rutherford County was formed in 1803 from parts of Davidson, Williamson and Wilson counties, and named in honor of Griffith Rutherford (1721–1805). Rutherford was a North Carolina colonial legislator and an American Revolutionary War general, who settled in Middle Tennessee after the Revolution. He was appointed President of the Council of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donna Scott Davenport
Donna Scott Davenport (born Scott) is the first judge to have overseen the Rutherford County, Tennessee juvenile justice system, filling the newly created position in 2000. She is also a former adjunct professor at her ''alma mater'', Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU). She presided over the juvenile court and legal system for the county, appointed magistrates (formerly, referees), set protocols, directed police and heard cases involving minors, including parents charged with child neglect.''Black Children Were Jailed for a Crime That Doesn’t Exist. Almost Nothing Happened to the Adults in Charge"'' Meribah Knight and Ken Armstrong, ''ProPublica'', Dece ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Music
Christian music is music that has been written to express either personal or a communal belief regarding Christian life and faith. Common themes of Christian music include praise, worship, penitence, and lament, and its forms vary widely around the world. Church music, hymnals, gospel and worship music are a part of Christian media, and also include contemporary Christian music which itself supports numerous Christian styles of music, including hip hop, rock, contemporary worship, and urban contemporary gospel. Like other forms of music the creation, performance, significance, and even the definition of Christian music varies according to culture and social context. Christian music is composed and performed for many purposes, ranging from aesthetic pleasure, religious or ceremonial purposes, or with a positive message as an entertainment product for the marketplace. Worship services Among the most prevalent uses of Christian music are in church worship or other gathering ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seth Condrey
Seth Brandon Condrey (born November 24, 1983) is an American Christian musician, who is a GMA Dove Award-winning artist, and a worship leader at North Point Community Church in Alpharetta, Georgia. He has released four Latin Albums, and two English-language albums. The 2007 album, ''De Corazon a Corazon'', won him the 39th GMA Dove Awards for Spanish Language Album of the Year. Early and personal life Condrey was born, Seth Brandon Condrey, on November 24, 1983, in Greenville, South Carolina. He was homeschooled, until he went to college, at North Greenville University. His collegiate studies lead him to spend a year in Argentina to attend Bible school. He now spends some of his time spreading the word in San José, Costa Rica, and is married to a Puerto Rican, Jessica Condrey. Seth and his family now reside in Woodstock, Georgia, where Seth is now on staff at Woodstock City Church, a campus of North Point Ministries. Music career His music recording career started in 2002 or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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