South Carolina H 3701: Betty Young, service

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2025-2026 Bill 3701 Text of Previous Version (Jan. 15, 2025) - South Carolina Legislature Online 

South Carolina General Assembly
126th Session, 2025-2026

Bill 3701

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A house RESOLUTION

TO HONOR MRS. BETTY F. YOUNG FOR HER MORE THAN FORTY 
YEARS OF DEDICATED SERVICE AS LEADER OF THE GENERAL MISSIONARY MINISTRY OF COLUMBIA'S 
ZION CANAAN BAPTIST CHURCH, INC., AND TO WISH HER CONTINUED FULFILLMENT AND 
SUCCESS IN ALL HER FUTURE ENDEAVORS.

Whereas, the South 
Carolina House is pleased to learn that Mrs. Betty F. Young, leader of the 
General Missionary Ministry of Columbia's Zion Canaan Baptist Church, is 
celebrating over four decades of committed service to that venerable ministry 
and will be honored by her church for her service on January 26, 2025; and

Whereas, Columbia 
native Betty Young retired from Richland School District One in 1997 after 
thirty-two years of service, having been honored as Teacher of the Year in 
1984. In all her labors for church, school, and community, she has found her 
greatest support in her beloved family: her husband, Henry C. Young Sr.; and 
their three sons, five grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren; and

Whereas, with great 
grace, skill, and dedication, Betty Young has worn many hats during her 
lifetime of service at Zion Canaan Baptist. In addition to carrying out her 
leadership duties with the General Missionary Ministry and Missionary Circle 
#4, Mrs. Young served as a Sunday School and Vacation Bible School teacher and 
member of the Senior Musical Choir. Moreover, she has served as a deaconess 
(forty-eight years), church decorator, Communion caretaker, and member of the 
Pastor's Compensation Committee and helped organize her church's Kitchen and 
Food Service departments. She has been chaplain to the State Baptist Youth 
Department, second vice president of the Gethsemane Women's Convention, and 
member of the Gethsemane Convention's executive board (the latter for over 
twenty-five years), and she is presently chair of the Nominating Committee, as 
well as second vice president emeritus of the Gethsemane Women's Association; 
and 

Whereas, among her many 
other church activities, this staunch leader and supporter of home and foreign 
mission work is directly involved in obtaining funding for Gethsemane 
Association mission projects, and she fights hard to support missions in the 
community at large, abroad, and in the mission stations of the National Baptist 
Convention, USA; and

Whereas, Mrs. Young's 
spirit of excellence and dedicated service have not gone unappreciated. In 
addition to many other recognitions, she was featured in Accenting Baptist 
Leadership in South Carolina by the South Carolina Baptist E&M 
Convention. In 2017, she received the Living Legacy Award from the Gethsemane 
Baptist Association as an outstanding missionary of Zion Canaan Baptist Church, 
and Church Women United honored her in 2023 as the Key Baptist Woman of the 
Columbia branch. In that same year, she was presented the Living Legacy Award 
by the Women's Baptist E&M Convention of South Carolina; and

Whereas, those who know 
her will affirm with one voice her exemplification of Proverbs 31:29-31, which 
reads in part, "Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that 
feareth the LORD, she shall be praised"; and

Whereas, the House 
takes great pleasure in adding its voice of commendation to the many encomiums 
honoring this faithful servant of God, Mrs. Betty F. Young. Now, therefore,

Be it resolved by the House 
of Representatives:

That the members of the South Carolina House of Representatives, by this resolution, honor 
Mrs. Betty F. Young for her more than forty years of dedicated service as 
leader of the General Missionary Ministry of Columbia's Zion Canaan Baptist Church, 
Inc., and wish her continued fulfillment and success in all her future 
endeavors.

Be it further resolved that a copy of this resolution 
be presented to Mrs. Betty F. Young.

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