The Baptist Courier

Discipleship is the priority at First Baptist Church in Columbia, Ill., and discipleship fuels the church"s passion for cooperative world missions and giving through the Southern Baptist Convention"s Cooperative Program.... Continue Reading »

Chinese Christians rejoiced at the release of five house church leaders from labor camp, only to hear shortly thereafter on Aug. 30 that an opponent of forced abortion will be sent to a prison built specifically for him.... Continue Reading »

Affiliates of Susan G. Komen for the Cure continue to give money to Planned Parenthood, the country"s leading abortion provider, and those grants have prompted Roman Catholic bishops in Ohio to order their dioceses" institutions to no longer raise... Continue Reading »

A federal district judge has blocked enforcement of a Texas law passed in May requiring women seeking abortions to undergo a sonogram at least 24 hours prior to the procedure and to hear the baby"s heartbeat and a description... Continue Reading »

Abortion rights advocates have taken aim at draft regulations released by the Virginia Department of Health for a new law requiring abortion clinics to abide by the standards expected of hospitals.... Continue Reading »

Today"s "From the Seminaries" relays reports of fall convocations as written and edited from four of the Southern Baptist Convention"s six seminaries -- Golden Gate, Midwestern, Southeastern and Southern.... Continue Reading »

Through Creative Missions, his goal is to help churches remove the barriers for outsiders looking in and help churches be effective communicators of the Gospel.... Continue Reading »

Eddie and Frances Willis will soon become church planters in the metropolitan Atlanta area. He is currently pastor of Friendship Church, North Charleston. He and his wife will plant a church through the Urban Atlanta Church Planting network. The... Continue Reading »

Wynn already had plenty of opportunities to listen in three days of helping coordinate Hurricane Irene relief efforts in New Bern, N.C.... Continue Reading »

A Facebook group page created to ?encourage discussion? among South Carolina Baptists about the GCR report's recommendations has attracted nearly 200 members and sparked a series of discussion threads centered mostly around the issue of trustee selection for the... Continue Reading »

From Sept. 18-25, Pleasant Grove Church, Fountain Inn, will celebrate 50 years of ?Learning from the Past,? (Sept. 18) ?Living in the Present? (Sept. 19-22) and ?Looking to the Future? (Sept. 25).... Continue Reading »

Sensing God's call of salvation on their lives, dozens of students took their stand for Christ during this summer's Summersalt youth camps held at White Oak Conference Center. Many hundreds made recommitments to Christ, and several indicated their response... Continue Reading »