The Baptist Courier

The Fellowship of Native American Christians has installed its first executive director, Gary Hawkins.

Hawkins, a church planting associate with the Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma, was called by FoNAC"s executive committee as the group"s executive director.... Continue Reading »

About 800 people from 600 Korean Baptist churches in 40 states including Alaska and Hawaii gathered for the Council of Korean Baptist Churches" annual meeting.... Continue Reading »

Chinese pastors are working to reach outside the traditional church setting to reach fellow Chinese in America and start new churches.... Continue Reading »

Filipino Southern Baptist leaders focused on strategies for church planting and training disciples for cross-cultural international missions via tent-making during their June 19 meeting held in conjunction with the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting in New Orleans.... Continue Reading »

"We"re planting churches that will continue to reach people year after year after year."... Continue Reading »

Called the "Iron Men of the SBC," some 180 bivocational pastors and their wives from 17 states attended the third annual Bivocational Luncheon Wednesday, June 20, during the SBC annual meeting in New Orleans.... Continue Reading »

Arizona Head Coach Andy Lopez led his team to Children"s Hospital and Medical Center in Omaha on June 19.... Continue Reading »

The U.S. Supreme Court has delivered another setback -- though not a final one -- to the effort to preserve a cross in a southern California veterans memorial.... Continue Reading »

After the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program became an issue in the presidential campaign, the Obama administration finally agreed to preserve the program that provides education vouchers for low-income parents for at least another year.... Continue Reading »

Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary President Paige Patterson invited Southern Baptist Convention messengers to come experience the Dead Sea Scrolls at the seminary during his report to the convention June 19.... Continue Reading »

BP Ledger carries items for reader information each week from various Southern Baptist-related entities, and news releases of interest from other sources.... Continue Reading »

Tears welled up in my eyes when I stood applauding the election of Fred Luter as the new president of the Southern Baptist Convention.... Continue Reading »