• Strengthen professional women’s beliefs in God and their commitments to serve him in the work place, home and in the community.
• Compel business women to develop the passion and skills to be women of spiritual influence in their work settings.
• Reach women who do not have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.

Please RSVP to Belinda Doss at bdoss@lckcs.com or call 401-4219. To expedite check-in, payment in advance is appreciated. Checks should be made payable to Palmetto Center for Women and mailed to Belinda Doss, LCK Construction Services, P. O. Box 11610, Columbia, SC, 29211.

Seating is limited, so please RSVP now. The cost is $20 per person.

Listen to Our Past Trinity Focus Luncheon Speakers (MP3 Download)

Heather Matthews - "Believing Versus Knowing Jesus" - December 2009

Hats Off to Women 2010 - Spring Fashion Show & Luncheon

Our event this year took place on April 20th and we would like to thank everyone who made Hats Off to Women 2010 a great success.

View a slide show of the event by clicking on the image below:

Hats Off to Women 2011 will be held on Wednesday April, 27 noon at 300 Senate. The event will be $40.00 per person and $250.00 for a reserved table of six.

Annual Prayer Breakfast

The Annual Prayer Breakfast was held in May, honoring women in business. We would like to thank all who attended and the sponsors who made the breakfast possible.

Listen to the guest speaker for the event, Dawndy Mercer Plank's talk.

Dawndy Mercer Plank - "What is Your First Line of Defense?"

Speaker Bio
“Feels like home.” That’s how Dawndy Mercer Plank describes living in South Carolina. Dawndy anchors WIS News 10 at 5 and WIS News 10 at 7. She is also the health and medical reporter covering everything from open-heart surgeries and medical advances in fighting cancer to ways to stay fit and trim. As a marathon runner and fitness buff, reporting on health issues is a perfect fit for Dawndy.

Dawndy’s awards include Best Anchor Personality for 2009, 2008, 2005 and 2004 by Free Times, and Best Local TV Personality for 2009, 2008 and 2003 by Columbia Metropolitan Magazine. In 2002, the South Carolina Governor’s Council on Physical Fitness awarded her with its Media Fitness Award. In December 2001, Dawndy was given the honor of running as a torchbearer for the 2002 Winter Olympic Games.

In 1994, she received the South Carolina Broadcaster’s Association Personality of the Year Award, as well as the National Journalism Award for Best Television Coverage of Leukemia. And readers of the Free-Times Newspaper in both 1994 and 1995 voted her Best Local TV Personality.

Dawndy’s television career began in 1989 when she left her hometown of Indianapolis, Indiana, for a reporter position at WBAY TV in Green Bay, Wisconsin. In 1992, she flew south to co-anchor WIS News Sunrise. She was later promoted to co-anchor WIS News 10 at 5.

In 1996, Dawndy moved to Houston, Texas where she entered the freelancing business. She was with Pastorini-Bosby Talent Agency and starred in commercials, print ads and industrial films. She spent time at Houston’s KNWS News, KTRK TV, KSBJ Christian Radio, and later hosted both a horse and travel show. Dawndy returned to WIS Television in 2001.

Dawndy is a frequent speaker at churches throughout the state and is an active member at Shandon Baptist Church. She is involved in programs that prevent child abuse, prevent cancer and promote healthy living. One of her greatest passions is helping stray animals be adopted into good homes.

Dawndy Mercer Plank graduated with a BS in Telecommunications in 1989 from Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, after an internship in Washington, D.C.

Dawndy is married to Craig Plank and has three stepchildren.

Gold Sponsors

• BB&T
• Colliers Keenan
• LCK Construction Services
• Progress Energy
• Kathryn Williams, PA, Greenville, SC

Silver Sponsors

• Claude M. Walker, Jr.
• First Community Bank
• Palmetto Automatic Sprinkler Company, Inc.

Table Sponsors

• Rogers, Townsend and Thomas, P.C.
• Long’s Drugstore of SC, Inc.
• The Rountree Group
• Nexsen Pruet, LLC.
• Faith Concepts, LLC.
• YMCA of Columbia, SC
• Progress Energy
• AgFirst Farm Credit Bank
• Kris Cato
• Rep. Harry Cato
• W.O. Blackstone & Company, Inc.
• S&ME, Inc.
• WIS TV
• Bruce Williams
• Weathers Contracting
• M.B. Kahn Construction Co., Inc
• Columbia Cardiology
• Hood Construction
• SCANA
• Robinson, McFadden & Moore, P.C.
• Stevens & Wilkinson
• South Carolina Manufacturers Alliance
• Time Warner Cable
• Jennifer C. Perritt, CFP, CPA
• Ameriprise Financial Services, Inc.
• Kelley, McCain & Smith Owens, LLC
• McCrory Construction Company, LLC
• Direct Buy