WINNSBORO, S.C. — B. Carlisle Driggers, saying “the time has come for me to announce my retirement,” will step aside as executive director-treasurer of the South Carolina Baptist Convention Feb. 28, 2007, after 15 years at the helm of the nation’s oldest state Baptist convention.
His will be the second-longest tenure for an executive director in South Carolina. Charles Jones held the position for 17 years, from 1925–1942. As executive director, Driggers, 68, focused on Empowering Kingdom Growth (EKG), a strategy for enhancing church growth. The convention’s 10-year EKG emphasis became the centerpiece of the Driggers administration, which was renewed for an extended five-year run in 2002 and gained national prominence when adopted as a strategy by the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC). Driggers co-chaired the SBC’s Empowering Kingdom Growth Task Force from 2002–2005.
Driggers, a native of Hartsville, S.C., served as executive assistant to former executive director-treasurer Ray Rust from 1990–1992 after returning to the state from Conyers, Ga., where he was minister of outreach and pastoral care at Northminster Baptist Church for two years.
Previously he had worked at the former Home Mission Board (now North American Mission Board) for 13 years, first as associate director of the black church relations department from 1975–1978 and as regional coordinator for planning and budgeting for the Eastern seaboard states from 1978–1988.
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