The Baptist Courier

AGAPE, a Bible institute designed to train Spanish-speaking Christian leaders, awarded certificates in Christian ministry to six students this spring.... Continue Reading »

Beth Boyle has been named director of alumni relations and annual giving at Charleston Southern University. A 2008 Charleston Southern graduate with a major in communication, Boyle has served in the athletics department at the university. She previously worked... Continue Reading »

Hearing passionate pleas to view the people of the world as God sees them, attendees of the 2011 Southern Baptist Pastors? Conference were challenged to take action. Following the conference's theme of ?Aspire: Yearning to join God's Kingdom Activity,?... Continue Reading »

Working as a member of the South Carolina Great Commission Resurgence Task Force appointed by 2010 convention president Fred Stone has raised my personal learning curve to a steep incline. The diversity and size of the group have been... Continue Reading »

Before changes were instigated within our Southern Baptist churches during the decade of the 1980s, the doxology was sung as part of our worship services. Things began to turn back positively in the 1990s, except for one important item... Continue Reading »

I read with great interest Dewitt Lemmond's recent letter (?Plea for complete gospel,? June 9). I agree with him totally and do not understand why pastors and leaders do not recognize this basic error of not giving people the... Continue Reading »

In reference to your article, ?American Idol winner is a Southern Baptist? (June 9), I would like to express my concern.... Continue Reading »

Johnny Rumbough, DOM of Lexington Association, was elected president of the Southern Baptist Conference of Associational Directors of Missions June 13 by attendees at the organization's annual meeting in Phoenix, Ariz.... Continue Reading »

While a recent cover of Newsweek magazine asserted that massive natural disasters are 'the new normal? and ?we?re hopelessly unprepared,? Eddie Fulmer and dozens of other volunteers from South Carolina were busy cutting fallen trees out of people's homes... Continue Reading »

The South Carolina Baptist Convention Office of Public Policy commends the South Carolina House of Representatives for recently passing a bill that would make it illegal for retail liquor stores to be open on Thanksgiving and Christmas.... Continue Reading »

South Carolina pastor Bill Curtis has recently completed work on a new book on homiletics entitled ?Engaging Exposition.? Curtis, who is the senior pastor at Cornerstone Church in Florence and an adjunct professor of homiletics at Southeastern Seminary, co-authored... Continue Reading »

This summer, North Greenville University is hosting Centrifuge, a youth camp sponsored by LifeWay Christian Resources, and M-Fuge, a sister camp that adds mission involvement to the camp experience.... Continue Reading »