TY - MANSCPT AU - Rogers,Andre TI - An investigation into the funding of African-American church plants in the South Carolina Southern Baptist Convention AV - BV4070.R724.I584 2011 PY - 2011/// KW - Church finance KW - United States N1 - 1; CD-R, PDF file; 2 N2 - This dissertation's focus explores the funding of African-American church plants within the Southern Carolina Baptist Convention (South CarolinaSBC). The primary research question is, "How does external SCSBC funding affect the success and health of African-American church plants?" The principal beneficiaries of this work are church planters who are either initiating their first work or are experienced and planting again. The factors critical in planting may have value in revitalizing declining or plateaued churches ER -