Recent Past Issues of The Christian View Magazine
Click on the button above or on the front cover to the right to read this 52-page double issue, with 95 photographs, dedicated to all who have served in our nation’s military.
This issue includes:
A 10-page article, including 23 photographs, on the Wreaths Across America ceremony held by the American Legion Easley Post 52 at Robinson Memorial Gardens in Easley, where wreaths were placed at more than 400 gravesites, including the gravesites of Captain Kimberly Hampton and Captain William Kennedy Mauldin, both of whom died while serving our country.
A five-page article, with 12 photographs, on the Wreaths Across America ceremony held by the Pickens County Historical Society and the City of Pickens at Sunrise Cemetery in Pickens,
A wreath-laying at the gravesite of Private First Class Barrett Austin at Hillcrest Cemetery in Pickens for Wreaths Across America,
A seven-page article, including photographs of 23 local World War II veterans honored by the Fort Prince George Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution,
A seven-page article, including 15 photographs, about World War II veteran Raymond Dawkins of Pickens being awarded the French Legion of Honor,
A three-page article, with photographs, in memory of World War II prisoner of war and Bataan Death March survivor Colonel Ben Skardon of Clemson,
A three-page article, with photographs, in memory of Korean War prisoner of war First Lieutenant Bill Funchess of Clemson,
A five-page article on American Legion Easley Post 52’s Veterans Day ceremony, at Robinson Funeral Home on Powdersville Road in Easley (held inside the chapel due to inclement weather),
A five-page article, with 14 photographs, on Pickens County’s Veterans Parade in Liberty.
This 36-page issue features sermon messages from, in alphabetical order: Dr. Danny Akin (“Jesus is Everything to Me! The Glorious Truth of Philippians 1:21 Lived Out in the Life and Death of William Wallace”), Dr. David Gallamore (“Be a Lighthouse for Jesus”), Dr. Junior Hill (“The Valley of Baca”), Dr. Stuart Houston (“Obeying the Heavenly Vision”), Dr. Randall Jones (“How God Spells ‘Go'”), Dr. Herb Reavis (“Faith Among the Faithless”), and Dr. Keith Shorter (“Making God Smile”).
This 32-page In Memory issue is dedicated in remembrance of several preachers (pastors and evangelists) previously interviewed by The Christian View magazine who have since passed to heaven: in alphabetical order, Dr. Sam Cathey, Rev. H.C. Couch, Dr. Jack Hester, Dr. Julius Scipio, Dr. Bill Stafford, and Dr. Fred Wolfe, as well as a guest article written for The Christian View magazine by Will Graham about his paternal grandparents, Dr. Billy Graham and Ruth Bell Graham.
This 28-page issue, with 40 photographs, is dedicated in memory of Bobby Bowden, the legendary Florida State Seminoles Head Football Coach, celebrating his life and his legacy of faith, family, and football, with memories shared by all who spoke at his Celebration of Life service, in order: the Rev. Dr. Bobby Butler, Charlie Ward, Derrick Brooks, Mark Richt, Warrick Dunn, Mickey Andrews, Ginger Bowden Madden, Tommy Bowden, Terry Bowden, and the Rev. Dr. Ronny Raines, with music by Hope Ward, Winnie Heggins, the Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University Gospel Choir, and the Florida State University Marching Chiefs.
Below, The Christian View magazine is making the following past print issues available to read in digital format: a previous Veterans Tribute issue and The Christian View magazine’s Sesquicentennial issue, celebrating Pickens County’s 150th anniversary. These two issues were printed as special supplements to The Christian View magazine’s online magazine at that time.
This 44-page issue, with 58 photographs, the first issue printed by Lighthouse Printing, is dedicated to all who have served in the United States Armed Forces, including those Americans who gave the ultimate sacrifice.
This issue includes articles on:
Flags for Fallen Military and the Patriot Guard Riders honoring the memory of Private First Class Barrett Austin, with an American flag and a flagpole installed at the home of Barrett Austin’s parents, Curt and Yolanda Austin,
The construction of the Memorial Park to honor Captain Kimberly Hampton at the Easley Library named in her memory. (The Christian View magazine’s online magazine also included an in-depth article, with more than 60 photographs, about the Captain Kimberly Hampton Memorial Golf Tournament and an article on Operation Dragonfly),
The Pickens community, including the Boy Scouts of Troop 51, honoring SP4 Charles Johnson, Jr., who was the first person from Pickens County to die in the Vietnam War,
A monument dedicated in the memorial garden at the Boy Scouts Troop 51 scout hut in memory of former Troop 51 Eagle Scout Ephriam Rutledge ‘Rut’ Liles, of Pickens, who died in the Vietnam War,
Quilts of Valor presented to local veterans Bill Duckworth, Milton ‘Milt’ Ponder, Robert Raines, and Steven Raines,
Milton ‘Milt’ Ponder accepting a Quilt of Valor on behalf of his friends ‘Rut’ Liles and John Reaves, who died in Vietnam in 1969,
Honoring former prisoners of war with ties to Clemson: Colonel Bill Austin (former Vietnam War POW), Colonel Ben Skardon (former World War II POW), and First Lieutenant Bill Funchess (former Korean War POW),
World War II veteran John Holcombe and his wife, Rema, sharing memories about their lives and his time serving in the U.S. Army during World War II,
The Vietnam Moving Wall, displayed at the Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative in Westminster,
The National Society Daughters of the American Revolution and the United States Department of Defense honoring Mildred Brewer for honoring Vietnam veterans and their families,
The Pickens County Veterans Parade in Liberty honoring men and women who have served our nation,
South Carolina State Representatives Davey Hiott and Gary Clary presenting former prisoner of war First Lt. Bill Funchess of Clemson with The Order of the Palmetto at Pickens County’s Salute to Veterans Show,
The American Legion Pickens Post 11 dedicating the War Memorial Wall and Flagpole at the Legion hut,
Lt. Clebe McClary speaking in chapel as Southern Wesleyan University honored veterans,
Southern Wesleyan University’s new military monument (the idea for which came from Command Sergeant Major Dr. Robert ‘Bob’ Nash) paying tribute to members of our nation’s armed forces,
From Sassafras Mountain to the city of Pickens, veterans beginning their walk across the state to raise awareness for South Carolina Arrows for Heroes,
Clemson University Military and Veteran Engagement welcoming veterans from South Carolina Arrows for Heroes at Clemson University’s Scroll of Honor Memorial Park,
Honoring Their Service Ride, with Special Operations Command Marines, based at Camp LeJeune, and Wounded Warriors welcomed at Southern Wesleyan University,
When this issue was printed, it was a special edition serving as a supplement to articles in The Christian View magazine’s weekly online magazine at that time.
This 20-page oversized 11″x15″ issue celebrates Pickens County’s Sesquicentennial events and shares local citizens’ memories and photographs from Pickens County’s Centennial celebration 50 years earlier.
This issue includes The Christian View magazine’s photographs from the excavation of the 1968 time capsule, County officials getting the 50-year-old capsule out of concrete and tar, the official ceremony for opening the 1968 time capsule, and The Blue Ribbon Birthday Bash and Pickens County’s Got Talent show.
Local citizens who shared with The Christian View magazine their memories from the 1968 Centennial celebration include, in alphabetical order: JoAnn Gilstrap Brewer, Glenn Brock, Charles Burkett, Vicki Crawford, Charles Dalton, Davey Hiott, Kay Hiott, Dean Holder, Jerry Hughes, Pat Mulkey, Joe Waldrop, Tommy Webster, and Pat Welborn.
When this issue was printed, an additional 1,200 photographs by The Christian View magazine from Pickens County Sesquicentennial events were published in The Christian View magazine’s online magazine.
Since 2004, The Christian View magazine has featured more than 1,700 individuals in hundreds of articles and more than 8,000 photographs, first in printed quarterly issues and then in The Christian View magazine’s former weekly online Christian news magazine. In late 2021, due to the necessity of beginning a new website, The Christian View magazine returned as a printed magazine, and each new print issue will also be available to read online, as a pdf, on The Christian View magazine’s website.
PAST ARTICLES
IN THE CHRISTIAN VIEW MAGAZINE:
INTERVIEWS WITH MANY WHO HAVE SHARED ABOUT THEIR LIVES AND FAITH:
pastors and evangelists (local and nationwide),
missionaries,
Christian singers and musicians,
Christian speakers and authors,
veterans,
leaders in sports,
educators,
leaders in government,
artists,
those who have overcome addictions,
those who have faced health trials or have lost family members,
those who have faced natural disasters,
families who have adopted children from other countries,
those who have gone on national and international mission trips.
ARTICLES ON CHURCHES AND THEIR MINISTRIES
ARTICLES ON NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS AND MINISTRIES INCLUDING:
Hope Women’s Center (pro-life crisis pregnancy center),
Operation Dragonfly/Captain Kimberly Hampton Memorial Park,
The Dream Center of Pickens County and homeless shelter program Opportunity Village,
The Parenting Place/Prevent Child Abuse Pickens County,
Helping Hands of Clemson (shelter and home for abused and neglected children),
Connie Maxwell Children’s Home,
MARY’S House (shelter for victims of domestic violence),
Safe Harbor (shelter for victims of domestic violence),
Home with a Heart (Christian rehabilitation home helping men overcome drug and alcohol addiction,
Celebrate Recovery of Pickens County,
Country Santa (providing toys to thousands of children at Christmas),
Feed a Hungry Child Pickens County,
Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals,
Operation Christmas Child,
Fellowship of Christian Athletes,
Good News Clubs,
Released Time for Bible Education/Pickens County Learning Center,
Teens for Christ,
Haven of Rest Ministries (helping people with addictions and homelessness),
Pickens County Meals on Wheels (providing meals delivered to senior citizens),
Camp McCall/McCall Royal Ambassador Camp,
The Gideons Liberty Camp,
The Gideons Pickens Camp,
Pickens County Advocacy Center (supporting survivors of assault and abuse),
Habitat for Humanity (building homes for families in need),
Pickens County YMCA’s Y Mentor Program for mentoring youth,
Pickens County Shelter of Hope (emergency homeless shelter),
Family Promise,
The American Legion Pickens Post 11,
The American Legion Post 52 of Easley,
The American Legion Post 67 of Liberty,
The Marine Corps League of Pickens County,
The Knights of Columbus,
The American Cancer Society,
The Daughters of the American Revolution Fort Prince George Chapter,
The Pickens County Historical Society,
The Pickens County Literacy Association,
The Pickens Lions Club,
The Central Lions Club,
The Easley Lions Club,
The Boy Scouts of Troop 51 in Pickens,
The Boy Scouts of Troop 134 in Central/Six Mile,
The Boy Scouts of Troop 227 in Liberty,
The Boy Scouts of Troop 45 in Walhalla,
The Cub Scouts Pack 130,
American Heritage Girls,
Christian motorcyclist groups,
Friends of the Pickens County Library,
The Pickens County Prison Ministry of local churches,
The Holly Springs Center,
The Hagood Community Center/Pickens Senior Center,
The Pumpkintown Community Club,
Central Railway Model and Historical Association,
Upstate Heritage Quilt Trail,
Upcountry Quilters Guild,
Behavioral Health Services of Pickens County,
Pickens County First Steps,
Clemson Sertoma Club,
Safe Kids Upstate,
Pickens Rotary,
Clemson-Calhoun Rotary Club,
Foothills Civitan Club,
Kiwanis Club,
4-H,
Department of Social Services Foster Care,
Cafe Connections
PLACES OF INTEREST INCLUDING:
Collins Ole Towne in Central,
The Pickens County Museum of Art and History,
The Central Railway Museum,
The Central History Museum,
The historic Bowen house/home to journalist Ben Robertson’s grandparents,
McKinney Chapel in Sunset,
Billy Graham’s childhood home and The Billy Graham Library in Charlotte, North Carolina,
The Lewis Family Homeplace in Lincolnton, Georgia,
Tiny Town in Easley,
Pickens Doodle Park and Doodle Trail,
Easley Doodle Park and Doodle Trail,
Pickens’ Town Creek Bike Park,
the Sign Barn in Pickens.
IN-DEPTH COVERAGE OF EVENTS INCLUDING:
Pickens County’s Sesquicentennial events with more than 1,200 photographs (online),
Child Evangelism Fellowship’s fundraising banquet (including Good News Club),
veterans’ events of local American Legions including during Memorial Day and Veterans Day and the Dedication of the War Memorial Wall and Flagpole at the Post 11 Legion Hut,
Vietnam Moving Wall display, opening and closing ceremonies at Blue Ridge Electric,
Honoring Their Service Ride for Marines from Camp LeJeune,
Captain Kimberly Hampton Memorial Golf Tournament fundraiser for Operation Dragonfly/Captain Kimberly Hampton Memorial Park,
The dedication of the Captain Kimberly Hampton Memorial Park,
Pickens community honoring Charles Johnson, first person from Pickens County to die in the Vietnam War,
DAR Fort Prince George chapter’s honoring Vietnam veterans and their families,
DAR Fort Prince George chapter’s honoring veterans of World War II,
Flags for Fallen Military and Patriot Guard Riders honoring the memory of PFC Barrett Austin,
Ephriam Rutledge ‘Rut’ Liles Monument dedication at Boy Scouts Troop 51 Scout Hut,
Quilts of Valor presentations to local veterans,
Milton Ponder’s receiving Quilt of Valor on behalf of his friends Rut Liles and John Reaves, who died in Vietnam in 1969,
Pickens County Veterans Parade in Liberty and ‘A Salute to Veterans’ event at the Pickens County Performing Arts Center,
Colonel Bill Austin, Colonel Ben Skardon, and First Lt. Bill Funchess (former Prisoners of War) speaking at Clemson University,
Clemson University’s 100th birthday celebration for Colonel Ben Skardon,
Former Prisoner of War 1st Lt. Bill Funchess presented The Order of the Palmetto,
Lieutenant Clebe McClary speaking in chapel service at Southern Wesleyan University,
Southern Wesleyan University’s new military monument paying tribute to Armed Forces,
Veterans begin walk across state to raise awareness for S.C. Arrows for Heroes,
Clemson University Military and Veteran Engagement welcoming veterans from South Carolina Arrows for Heroes at Scroll of Honor Memorial Park,
Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative’s Blue Ridge Fest fundraiser for local charities,
Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative’s annual meeting,
The Pickens Azalea Festival,
The Central Railroad Festival,
Relay for Life of Pickens County fundraiser for The American Cancer Society,
Relay for Life of Oconee County fundraiser for The American Cancer Society,
The Dream Center of Pickens County’s fashion show fundraiser,
The Six Mile Issaqueena Festival,
Easley’s Spring Fling Festival,
Liberty’s Celebrate Liberty Spring Festival,
Pumpkintown’s Pumpkin Festival,
Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative’s annual Christmas tree lighting,
The Brandon Reunion,
The Model Train Expo,
The Senior League Baseball World Series and Fan Fest in Easley,
The National Christian College Athletic Association Baseball World Series in Easley,
Events at The Hagood Mill,
The Ride for the Child Motorcycle Run fundraiser for The Parenting Place,
The Run for the Younguns fundraiser for Hope Women’s Center,
The Wings and Wheels fundraiser for Pickens County Meals on Wheels,
Partners for Prevention annual event to kick off Child Abuse Prevention Month,
Haven of Rest’s annual fundraising concert,
The Walk for Life annual fundraiser for Hope Women’s Center,
The Doodle Trail Fun Run fundraiser for MARY’S House,
Get Colored Purple Fun Run fundraiser for MARY’S House and Safe Harbor,
Upcountry Quilters Guild quilt show,
filming of The Gaithers’ Homecoming Tent Revival at The Billy Graham Library,
Events at Clemson University,
Events at Southern Wesleyan University,
Events at The Pickens County Performing Arts Center,
Events at The Pickens County Museum,
Pickens’ Mountain Bike Race, 5-K Trail Run, and Doodle Trail Half-Marathon.
GUEST WRITERS FOR THE CHRISTIAN VIEW MAGAZINE HAVE INCLUDED:
preachers and evangelists,
missionaries,
Christian speakers and writers,
leaders from charitable organizations,
leaders in education,
individuals who have written inspirational articles or about mission trips or about missionaries,
and more.