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Rocky Springs Church, Aiken, commemorates 200th anniversary

Rocky Springs Baptist Church, located beside the Edisto River in rural Aiken County near Wagener and New Holland, will celebrate its bicentennial Oct. 21.... Continue Reading »

Church members move prayer from sanctuary to the streets

Members of Williamston First Baptist Church recently put feet to their prayers ? all over town.... Continue Reading »

Family shares encouragement ‘Through the Storms’

November 20, 2001. It was a day that Ken Petrus says seems like yesterday and yet like a lifetime ago in a strange way. It's the day that he says gave his family a ?new normal.? Nearly 11 years... Continue Reading »

Doctor’s Creek to celebrate 175 years

Doctor's Creek Baptist Church in Walterboro will observe its 175th anniversary on Oct. 21.... Continue Reading »

Upstate pastors to be nominees for SCBC president

Two Upstate pastors ? Ralph Carter and Ty Childers ? will be nominated for president of the South Carolina Baptist Convention when messengers gather for this year's annual meeting at the TD Convention Center in Greenville Nov. 13-14.... Continue Reading »

Intersections: Where Faith Meets Life – by Bob Weathers

Not a fan of those spontaneous love offerings for missionaries, traveling evangelists, or the pastor's favorite local ministry? Consider this recently published research, found at sciencemag.org.... Continue Reading »

Pastor compensation slightly ahead of inflation

Compensation for full-time Southern Baptist pastors increased at a rate slightly faster than inflation nationally over the past two years, yet many churches continue to struggle in providing pastors with adequate medical insurance.... Continue Reading »

Among Mongolia’s nomads, water wells lead to Living Water

The World Hunger Fund, a separate fund, provided the money for eight wells for eastern Mongolia nomads and their goat herds. Each well costs $3,250 and will help around 480 people in the Asian country.... Continue Reading »

Church planter reaches Africans in Chicago

"God laid on my heart that there are no Ghanaian African Baptist churches [SBC] in all of Chicago," said Aidoo, a North American Mission Board church planter.... Continue Reading »

NAMB to boost planters’ retirement accounts

The North American Mission Board is providing a one-time deposit of $1,200 into the retirement accounts of Southern Baptist church planters who have joined its Send North America Support Network.... Continue Reading »

Panel addresses new challenges to inerrancy

In a panel discussion concerned with "Revisiting Inerrancy" at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Bruce Ware, a professor at Southern who attended Fuller Seminary during the height of the inerrancy debates in the mid-20th century, explained the conflict of authority.... Continue Reading »

FIRST PERSON: Will Southern Baptists rise to the challenge?

Is this how Southern Baptists will be remembered? Will it be said of us that at the hour of greatest need for the Gospel we did not rise to the challenge?... Continue Reading »