The Baptist Courier

MICHAEL and NATLIE BOYER of Easley will soon move to Cuenca, Ecuador, to begin language and cultural studies in preparation to serve as full-time missionaries to the peoples of the Andes Mountains in Ecuador and Peru. The Boyers are... Continue Reading »

Arthur Pruitt Martin Sr., 86, of Columbia, died Feb. 25, 2013.... Continue Reading »

A trio of evangelical groups, including the Spartanburg County Baptist Network, will hold an ?Immigration Awareness? briefing and luncheon April 29. The event is designed to explore the role of evangelicals ?in helping mold a policy that is biblical... Continue Reading »

Big Creek Baptist Church, Williamston, will celebrate its 225th anniversary in the coming months, capped with a homecoming service on Aug. 4.... Continue Reading »

Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, has been selected president of Southern Evangelical Seminary.... Continue Reading »

George Beverly Shea, 104, of Montreat, N.C., soloist of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, died Tuesday evening, April 16, following a brief illness.... Continue Reading »

He has risen. Amen. The Easter sermon is over. Everyone has gone home. The Easter dinner is put away in the fridge. A new day is dawning. Now what?... Continue Reading »

Jack Cauley JACK CAULEY recently concluded 44 years of service with Connie Maxwell Children’s Home and retired as director of special services. Cauley was presented the 2013 Distinguished Service Award by the Palmetto Association of Children and Families at... Continue Reading »

I agree with the March 28 article by Ed Stetzer ('the Media's Yearning Desire for Catholics to ?Get with the Times???). We as Southern Baptists need to get back to being the biblical church.... Continue Reading »

First Baptist Church in Dallas celebrated the grand opening of its $130-million, 500,000-square-foot campus in downtown Dallas on Easter Sunday.... Continue Reading »

Lives are being saved and families are finding hope for the future in a Zimbabwe village at a time when the country as a whole is battling one of the worst HIV/AIDS epidemics in the world. In a partnership... Continue Reading »

Cindy Winters didn't set out to write a book. But as she journaled about her grief and pain after her husband Fred was killed in his Maryville, Ill., pulpit four years ago, she realized how healing the writing process... Continue Reading »