Kershaw Area Church NewsPage 4 THE KERSHAW NEWS-ERA Wednesday, October 17, 2017

Deacon LeadershipTraining

Deacon LeadershipTraining will be heldon Tuesday, October24, at 7 p.m. at theMoriah Baptist Asso-ciation Mission Cen-ter. Rev. Ron Barker,South Carolina Bap-tist Convention, illlead the training.

Supper will beserved. Sign up dead-line is October 22.

All active deaconsare invited to attend.Please sign up by call-ing the Association at803-283-8409 oremailing at Judy-Morhiah@compori-um.net.

Trunk-A-Treat atDamascus

Damascus UnitedMethodist Church,4118 DamascusChurch Road in West-ville, will hold theirTrunk-A-Treat on Sat-urday, October 28,starting at 6 p.m.

Lots of Candy will be

available and wearyour costumes.

This is for kids up to12 years old.

Buffalo BaptistChurch Fall Festival

On Saturday, Octo-ber 28, 2017 from 5p.m. till 7 p.m. TheBuffalo BaptistChurch will have theirFall Festival. Games,Prizes, Trunk or Treatalong with a Hot Dogdinner will be served.

Bring the entirefamily out for somegreat family fun andfellowship.

Trunk or Treat – AFamily Event

First BaptistChurch Kershaw ishaving a Trunk orTreat on Tuesday,October 31, 5:30 p.m.until 7:30 p.m. onCleveland Streetbetween Church andRichland Streets.Everyone is welcomedto join us.

All area churchesare invited to join usin the Trunk or Treat.To participate or formore information con-tact: First BaptistChurch 803-475-3721or office@fbcker-shaw.org.

Harmony BaptistChurch Senior Com-

mittee

The Harmony Bap-tist Church SeniorsCommittee would liketo invite all areaSenior Citizens toattend the next meet-ing of the HarmonySeniors and SeniorFriends Fellowship tobe held 11 a.m.,Wednesday, November1, 2017. Our speakerwill be Rev. WayneWilliams, pastor ofCalvary BaptistChurch of McBee, SC.Special music will beprovided by Mr.James (Peewee) John-son. Lunch will beserved at 12 Noon inour fellowship hall,located directly

behind the churchbuilding.

Donations will beaccepted to coverexpenses associatedwith the meal.

Harmony BaptistChurch is located onHighway 341 at theKershaw County andLee County line eastof Bethune.

Senior Adult FallFestival

The re-scheduledMoriah Baptist Asso-ciation Senior AdultFall Festival is Thurs-day, November 2, at11 a.m. at WhiteSprings BaptistChurch in Lancaster.

Dr. Jim Diehl,Christian Illusionist,

will present the pro-gram and Cater’sTater’s will provide theluncheon.

Tickets for lunchare $5. Deadline tosign up is October 26.If you have alreadysigned up, there is noneed to sign up again.

The Annual FallBazaar

Kershaw SecondBaptist Church willhold their Annual FallBazaar on Saturday,November 4, from 7a.m. until 3 p.m.

There will beChristmas decora-tions, crafts, wooditems, gift ideas, jew-elry and more. Alarge variety of baked

goods, jams, and jel-lies will be availablefor purchase, too.

Breakfast isSausage Biscuits andPancakes and Lunchis Vegetable Soup andCornbread. Price formeals are donations.

Act II from NorthGreenville University

ACT II, the dramateam from NorthGreenville University,will be performing atHeath Springs BaptistChurch on Sundaynight, November 19,at 6 p.m. The publicis invited to attend.For more informa-

tion, contact FrankieMelton at 803-288-6168.

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KC students out-perform stateBy Mary Ann Byrd, KCSD

Information Diretor

This spring more than88 percent of KershawCounty School District’s(KCSD) 11th gradersscored at the bronze levelor better on the ACTWorkKeys exam, certify-ing that they have theessential skills needed forsuccess in the work-place.

Kershaw County’sscore is four percentagepoints better than the

state average of 84 per-cent. In a comparison of16 area school districts,KCSD’s percentage ofstudents earning an ACTNational Career Readi-ness Certificate wasthird, behind only Lex-ington 1 and Lexing-ton/Richland 5.

“This certificate isused nationally byemployers to determine aperson’s level of bothcognitive and soft skillsneeded for a job,” saidKCSD Superintendent

Frank Morgan. “As weare working to prepareour students to be col-lege and/or career-ready,we are pleased to seethese results and recog-nize the important rolethey play in KershawCounty’s efforts toenhance economic devel-opment.”The test includes threetimed parts: Reading forInformation, AppliedMathematics and Locat-ing Information.