The Baptist Courier

Pleasant Hill Baptist Church, Conway, celebrated its 100th anniversary on Oct. 3.... Continue Reading »

LifeWay Christian Resource's True Love Waits ministry has introduced 'true Love Waits 3.0: A Path of Purity.? The new initiative, introduced during the National Youth Worker's Conference held Sept. 13-15, is a result of a study of how the... Continue Reading »

?Reach London and you will reach the world.? That statement is a motto International Mission Board missionaries live by, according to David Bagwell, pastor of Bethel Baptist Church, Westminster. He led a vision trip of 15 people from South... Continue Reading »

In the face of declining church budget gifts, members of the Executive Board of the South Carolina Baptist Convention, meeting Oct. 12 at White Oak Conference Center, approved a leaner state budget for the coming year.... Continue Reading »

Earl Moseley, 83, of Asheville, N.C., died Oct. 2, 2010.... Continue Reading »

Mike Huckabee, former governor of Arkansas and presidential candidate, was guest speaker for a fifth anniversary and fundraising celebration for the Taylors Free Medical Clinic Sept. 28 at Timmons Arena at Furman University.... Continue Reading »

We are busy putting the finishing touches on this year's SCBC Pastor's Conference, and I couldn't be more excited. The Lord has really worked in recent weeks to allow us to catch up from a glitch in our publicity... Continue Reading »

Fourteen-year-old Ariana Iacono is at the center of a controversy reverberating throughout eastern North Carolina. A student at Clayton High School, not far from Raleigh, she has been suspended for 10 days. Her disobedience? She arrived at school with... Continue Reading »

?From My Life's Journey ? with Heaven as My Destination!? is the title of a newly published collection of newspaper columns written by Lloyd Batson, retired pastor of Pickens First Baptist Church.... Continue Reading »

SBC giving down for 2009-2010 The Southern Baptist Convention finished its Oct. 1-Sept. 30 fiscal year 6.18 percent below budget, while Cooperative Program receipts for the year were down 4.03 percent and combined CP and designated giving for the... Continue Reading »

With their faces pointed toward the heavens, the members of Garden City Baptist Church watched as pastor Rich McLawhorn put a cross atop their newly reconstructed church.... Continue Reading »

A surge in communications technology in the past decade has expanded religious dialogue, but the discussions have led to little change in people's lives, The Barna Group found in a recent survey.... Continue Reading »