The Baptist Courier

The 2010 Church Weekday Education Workshop was held July 29-30 at White Oak Conference Center in Winnsboro. Under the theme, 'start Right with the Right Start,? more than 570 teachers and directors from South Carolina Baptist church preschools and... Continue Reading »

?Discovery? is the name of a new worship service at Berea First Baptist in Greenville. ?Discovery? also describes the experience that led the church to begin a new service, said pastor Ronald D. Vaughan.... Continue Reading »

WHF helping desperate Pakistani families About 600 families in Pakistan’s Sindh province are receiving desperately needed food supplies, thanks to the generosity of Christians who have donated to the Southern Baptist World Hunger Fund. Bags of staple foods are... Continue Reading »

A church in Taiwan submitted the winning photo in this year's Facts & Trends Vacation Bible School photo contest.... Continue Reading »

Southern Baptist Convention president Bryant Wright is challenging individual churches around the convention to set record goals for this year's Lottie Moon Christmas Offering.... Continue Reading »

?Churches need to exercise due diligence by running background checks,? said Jennie Taylor, marketing coordinator in LifeWay's direct marketing department. 'there is a $10 base-level background check option that includes a national criminal and sex offender search. It's a... Continue Reading »

The small Lowcountry town of Varnville and the Eastern European country of Albania have little in common. What they do share, however, is Kjihad Sinai.... Continue Reading »

Joe Pace JOE PACE, pastor of Refuge Baptist Church, Central, retired Aug. 1 after 43 years of ministry. During his ministry, he was pastor of four churches and served as minister of music at three churches. Refuge Church honored... Continue Reading »

The youth of Centenary Baptist Church, in Marion Association, performed a “service of love” on July 24 by washing church members’ cars and trucks free of charge.   Three young people at Padgett’s Creek Baptist Church, Union, recently were... Continue Reading »

Since 1998, Ron Nief and Tom McBride of Beloit College have released their ?Mindset List.? The Mindset List offers insight into the world of the high school grads entering as freshmen in the nation's colleges. McBride and Nief first... Continue Reading »

Alvin Jackson is the new director of missions for Carolina Baptist Association, which serves churches primarily in southern Horry County. He began duties in May.... Continue Reading »

?He's not just a South Carolina God or just a USA God ? he's a whole-world God, and I saw that this summer in a powerful way.? So says Elizabeth Pruett, a student at Greenville Technical College and a... Continue Reading »