Born Alone
I had the opportunity to interview Dr. Danny Nicholson last week in what should be one of the final interviews for this documentary...
The Power of the Camera
One of the early sections of "The Connie Maxwell Story" describes the plight of orphaned or impoverished children before the advent of...
Connie Maxwell in the 1940's and 50's
I'm not sure you can ever say that a children's ministry has a "golden age." After all, every ministry would love to work its way out of...
Childcare has come a long way
Here's another little snippet of the rough cut of "The Connie Maxwell Story" documentary I am working on. This segment is from early in...
What's a Rough Cut?
Embedded with this post is the latest rough cut from "The Connie Maxwell Story" documentary project. This cut contains two of the...
Time to Get Back to Work
The photo above shows J.H. Oulla and the first set of printer boys at the Connie Maxwell Orphanage standing in front of trays of type in...
Enter the Baptists
I had long heard that it was an editorial by W.W. Keys, the editor of The Baptist Courier, that had spurred South Carolina Baptists on to...
An Uncivil War
Although the Connie Maxwell Orphanage did not open until 1892, the American Civil War unquestionably had an impact on its founding just...
Hope Out of Grief
This short segment of the rough cut of The Connie Maxwell Story will give you a small taste of the documentary as it is developing. This...
Join me in a special project
The story of Connie Maxwell Children's Home has long fascinated me. Born out of the tragedy of a little girl's death, this ministry in...
