The Baptist Courier

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 »

North Greenville University's Christian Worldview Center will hold its fifth annual Christian Worldview Conference March 21-23.... Continue Reading »

Hubert ?Hugh? Garrell, 82, of Columbia, a retired military chaplain and pastor, died Jan. 16, 2011.... 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 »

Gary C. Redding will retire March 31 after serving 22 years as pastor of First Baptist Church, North Augusta.... Continue Reading »

Thomas Houston Hawkins, 92, of Seneca, a retired pastor, died Feb. 13, 2011.... 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 »

KENNY OWEN was called as pastor of First Baptist Church, Westminster, on Feb. 6, after serving as interim pastor since last November. Prior to that, he served as pastor at Earle’s Grove Baptist Church, Westminster, for 27 years, and... Continue Reading »

James E. Holder, 82, of Gaffney, a pastor for 63 years, died Feb. 3, 2011.... 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 »

Glenwood Baptist Church, Easley, honored pastor Dale McCoig and his wife, Marianne, on Jan. 9 with a trip to the Holy Land. Pictured with the McCoigs are the Glenwood deacons and staff, who presented the gift on behalf of... Continue Reading »

William Crate Murphy, 93, of Anderson, a retired pastor, died Feb. 7, 2011, at Rainey Hospice House.... Continue Reading »