The Rev. Dr. Mack T. Hines was elected to the Morris College board of trustees during the annual convention of the South Carolina Baptist Education and Missionary Baptist Convention earlier this month in Spartanburg.
Convention president Dr. Benjamin Snoody was host pastor. The S.C. Baptist E and M Convention owns and operates Morris College.
Hines also served as assistant and secretary of the S.C. Baptist E and M Convention under three presidents.
Morris is Hines’ alma mater, where he received a bachelor of divinity degree. He said he’s excited about his new role as a trustee board member.
Morris honored Hines in 1990 with an honorary doctor of divinity degree. Hines also earned a doctor of ministry degree from Hood Theological Seminary in Salisbury, N.C., in 2005.
He wrote his dissertation on stewardship, which was transcribed to a book.
He has pastored for 25 years at St. Paul Baptist Church in Mullins. The church is celebrating his silver anniversary this year.
Hines also is moderator of the Pee Dee Baptist Association, which covers 60 churches in five Pee Dee counties.
He is referred to as “Pastor Hines” by Mullins citizens. He has done much to help provide affordable housing by building the Genesis II Housing Apartment Complex. The Genesis Board named the community building in his honor in 2008.
Additionally, St. Paul operates an adult day health care program licensed by the state Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC). Hines started the program.
Hines also served in the S.C. House of Representatives for 12 years. Upon his retirement, he was honored by the S.C. General Assembly, which named a highway after him that begins at Pee Dee in Marion County.
But what keeps Hines working and what are his future plans?
“I just want to serve humankind,” he said. “As Marion Wright Elderman says, ‘service is the rent we pay for living.’”
His other plans are to build a prayer chapel on Laurel Street beside his church. Hines said this came about because of having been sick. He was in and out of the hospital
“This was a way for me to meditate, think and internalize about my expressions to God,” he said, noting he later had a kidney transplant.
Hines thinks his church members and countless others need a place to get away because of job losses, emotional problems, problems with their children and other issues. The chapel will be open for several hours during the day for the community to pray.
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