The Baptist Courier

Among all the hundreds of places North American Mission Board church-planting missionaries work and minister across the United States and Canada, none is more dangerous than Laredo in south Texas, where Chuy and Maria Avila live and serve.... Continue Reading »

I?m not ?young, restless and reformed.? I guess you?d say that I?m young, Southern Baptist and, it seems, increasingly irrelevant.... Continue Reading »

State convention executive directors have agreed to affirm a portion of the Great Commission Resurgence (GCR) report requesting a 50/50 division of Cooperative Program (CP) receipts ? after consideration for shared ministry funds ? between state conventions and the... Continue Reading »

This year, Sean Vickers, minister of students at Boiling Springs First Baptist Church, wanted to take a creative approach to True Love Waits, the sexual-abstinence-until-marriage emphasis for teenagers. Wanting to make the series fresh and challenging, he came up... Continue Reading »

The years immediately following the Civil War were dark and difficult ones for South Carolina ? and no less so for the churches of the still-young South Carolina Baptist Convention, founded only a few decades before, in 1821. State... Continue Reading »

Donald Dowless, currently serving as vice president for academic affairs at North Greenville University, has been named president of Shorter University, a Georgia Baptist institution in Rome, Ga.... Continue Reading »

Lake Placid is full of people going places and at great speeds. The resort town was made famous by movies, high rollers, Olympic events and now by top-flight winter athletes honing their skills on its bobsled tracks and ice... Continue Reading »

Baptists often define kingdom boundaries too narrowly to affect mission. We love to mark our territory. These lines are many. But, the thing is, they inhibit mission because they hinder cooperation. If we are to be kingdom people, we... Continue Reading »

Joe Mack has joined North Greenville University's Christian Worldview Center as director of public policy, effective Feb. 1. Mack held a similar position with the South Carolina Baptist Convention from 1999 until his retirement in December 2010.... Continue Reading »

CONCLAVE, a worship and training event for student ministry workers, was held Feb. 3-5 at the Chattanooga (Tenn.) Convention Center and involved several South Carolinians. One-third of all full-time youth workers in South Carolina, as well as many volunteers,... Continue Reading »

More than 300 men from churches across South Carolina who gathered Feb. 4-5 for the Salt & Light men's ministries event at White Oak Conference Center heard a presentation from Army Lieutenant General (ret.) Jerry Boykin.... Continue Reading »

What does it look like to be gripped by the kingdom of God? That was the question put to 885 college students, high school upperclassmen, and leaders from Baptist Collegiate Ministry (BCM) groups and local churches at the 2011... Continue Reading »