The Baptist Courier

As the leader of a military wives faith-based support organization and a military wife myself, I?m often asked by women's ministry leaders and churches what they can do to support military wives and their families. You might be unsure... Continue Reading »

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 »

Pakistan's Christian minority spent the weekend paying respect to the man who openly stood for his faith in a nation known for persecuting Christians.... Continue Reading »

Encouraged by her pastor, Sunday school teacher Mary Carter wrote lessons for her class on the parables of Jesus that grew into a recently published book, a ?Layman's (Laywoman's) Study of the Parables of Jesus.?... Continue Reading »

The debate about the Great Commission Resurgence Task Force report seems to be veering off course. This is because we suffer from a strain of spiritual attention deficit hyperactive disorder that distorts our vision. Already much of the grapevine... Continue Reading »

Jim Green* has been on his knees for North Africa, praying for the past five years that God would ?rebuild a highway of righteousness from Gibraltar to Jerusalem.? He's been leading the rest of his prayer network of believers... Continue Reading »

For Jared and Lacy Taylor, the fall of 2008 seemed full of promise. They were expecting their first child when their season of blessing seemed to slip through their hands. Without warning, they found themselves in a season of... Continue Reading »

The general drift of Brad Whitt's first-person article in the March 3 edition of The Baptist Courier was offensive and divisive, and contrary to the standards that South Carolina Baptists expect from our state publication. Dr. Whitt criticized many... Continue Reading »

  CP 1.20 percent below previous year’s pace Year-to-date contributions to Southern Baptist national and international missions and ministries received by the SBC Executive Committee are 1.20 percent below the same time frame last year. As of Feb. 28,... Continue Reading »

Deep Branch Baptist Church, in the Allendale-Hampton Association, celebrated its centennial Feb. 20. The church was organized Feb. 19, 1911, near Cummings.... 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 »

Persecution can discourage even the strongest believer. Elijah, Jeremiah, and Paul, among others, each learned this painful truth (1 Kings 19:3-4; Jeremiah 17:15-18 and 18:18-23; 1 Corinthians 2:3; and Acts 18:6-11). Though all were great men of God, their... Continue Reading »