In the 1970’s and 1980’s dozens of men and women were baptized in Lake Hartwell and were added to God’s Kingdom and the Foothills Church of Christ. In 2009, after nearly 20 years, the waters of Lake Hartwell have once again been stirred with the Baptisms of Meredith Cole and DJ Alrutz!
In
January of this year, 12 men and women began meeting in the home of
Jarrod & Stacey Robinson and they were all given the charge to
plant a new church and a new campus ministry in Clemson, South
Carolina. After 2 months the group that was meeting in the Robinson’s
home was getting too big so they made arrangements to begin meeting on
the campus of Clemson University at Olin Hall room 200, a small 120
seat lecture room. The week before our first meeting there, some
brothers and sisters placed an invite on the bulletin board in Olin
Hall. Meredith, a student saw the invite and showed up on her own for
service that Sunday. The following week she brought a couple of friends
with her, DJ Alrutz and Blake Bladders. Meredith began studying the
bible with Kristina Kesel and Stacey Robinson.
DJ
is doing a coop in Columbia and so he began studying the bible with the
brothers at University of South Carolina campus ministry. Both were
baptized on May 3rd in Lake Hartwell and are the first two baptisms of
the newly planted Clemson Foothills Church. Blake is also studying the
bible and doing great! God is truly encouraging the brothers and
sisters in Clemson as the waters of Lake Hartwell Stir once again!
For more information on the Clemson Foothills Church, go to www.clemsonfoothillschurch.org.