The Baptist Courier

I get around a bit ? okay, quite a bit. I have the safety announcement memorized on two major airlines. I can tell you the way T.S.A. procedures vary from airport to airport. I know the best places to... Continue Reading »

Larry Harrison is convinced that churches can reach outside their walls and reach hundreds for Christ through community block parties and by adopting the practice of intentional evangelism.... Continue Reading »

Robert Wallace Lawson Sr., 90, of Rock Hill, a retired pastor and missionary, died March 19, 2011.... Continue Reading »

Nailing gelatin to the wall may be easier than understanding local church autonomy. It's a Baptist hot button, a valued ideal. Even our definition of the church is qualified by the word ?autonomous.? Historically, we guard our autonomy closely.... Continue Reading »

Charles “Buddy” Freeman CHARLES “BUDDY” FREEMAN of Conover, N.C., recently returned to the administration of North Greenville University. Previously, Freeman served as vice president for admissions, but will now work in the office of university advancement in the role... Continue Reading »

William ?Bill? Henry Lee, 84, of Westminster, a long-serving pastor, died March 5, 2011.... Continue Reading »

Eddie Pettit, commander of the South Carolina Disaster Relief medical unit and member of the SCDR task force, was one of two Baptist Global Response (BGR) leaders meeting in Tokyo last week with Japanese Baptists regarding a Southern Baptist... Continue Reading »

Georgia pastor Bryant Wright will be nominated for a second term as president of the Southern Baptist Convention, Alabama pastor David Platt announced March 11. Wright, senior pastor of the Atlanta-area Johnson Ferry Baptist Church in Marietta, will be... Continue Reading »

A young lady approached me with a solemn, somber expression in her brown eyes, trying to hold back the tears, as I left the church auditorium's platform after extending the invitation. ?I have a personal request,? she said in... Continue Reading »

When Jim Burry, of Fountain Inn, traveled with a team of other South Carolina Baptists on mission to East Africa three years ago, he could not have imagined the providential chain of events that would unfold. Today, as a... Continue Reading »

Excitement and happiness fill the air. Smiles and laughter abound and, for some, tears of joy. One week after the onset of Japan's triple disaster, everyone is ready for something to celebrate. For a small group of Japanese Christians,... Continue Reading »

At a beginning sign language course for a church's deaf ministry in the Deep South in 1979, Howard Burkhart III liked his teacher so much he married her. Because of Tina McMillan (Burkhart) and her attentive pupil, untold hundreds... Continue Reading »