Southern Community Financial Corporation Announces Quarterly Cash Dividend of $0.04 per Share

  Southern Community Financial Corporation
(NASDAQ: SCMF) (NASDAQ: SCMFO) announced that its Board of Directors, at
its regular meeting on January 21, 2009, declared a quarterly cash dividend
of four cents ($0.04) per share on the Corporation's common stock.  The
dividend is payable on February 27, 2009, to shareholders of record as of
the close of business on February 13, 2009.  This is the Corporation's
sixteenth consecutive quarterly dividend, following its former practice of
annual cash dividends.

About the Company

Southern Community Financial Corporation is headquartered in Winston-Salem, North Carolina and is the holding company of Southern Community Bank and Trust, a community bank with twenty-two banking offices throughout North Carolina.

Southern Community Financial Corporation's common stock and trust preferred securities are listed on The NASDAQ Global Select Market under the trading symbols SCMF and SCMFO, respectively. Additional information about Southern Community Financial Corporation is available on its website at www.smallenoughtocare.com or by email at [e-mail].

For Additional Information: F. Scott Bauer Chairman/CEO James Hastings Executive Vice President/Chief Financial Officer 336-768-8500