The Baptist Courier

Seth Buckley, minister to students at Spartanburg First Baptist Church for 14 years, has been using LifeWay Christian Resources? 'true Love Waits? materials since the program began in 1993. The Courier asked Buckley, whose youth group averages more than... Continue Reading »

True Love Waits will launch 'true Love Waits 3.0: A Path of Purity? during the National Youth Workers Conference sponsored by LifeWay Christian Resources in mid-September.... Continue Reading »

International Mission Board trustees moved toward the future while honoring the past during their July 20-21 meeting in Richmond, Va. Trustees voted unanimously to recommend modifying the IMB's primary ministry assignment to reach people groups globally, including North America,... Continue Reading »

In 2001, Geoff and Debbie Hammond were gathered in a Richmond area hotel with other members of the Southern Baptist Conservatives of Virginia (SBCV) staff after a hurricane left their homes without electricity. ?In that hotel, nine years ago,... Continue Reading »

Volunteers from First Baptist Church of Spartanburg first began making mission trips to Bell County, Ky., in 1969, under the leadership of Alastair Walker. Walker, the church's pastor, had formerly served at First Baptist Church of Middlesboro and took... Continue Reading »

I want to thank James Shull (?Your Views,? June 24) for suggesting reading ?Why I Left Christian Contemporary Music,? by Dan Lucarini. After reading this book, I (who would be considered traditional) had to take a long look at... Continue Reading »

This is in response to David Martin's letter in your July 22 issue. He said, ?I believe it is clear who has control.? If that were true, there would have been no need for the article on the problem... Continue Reading »

The College of Christian Studies at Anderson University has added Kris Barnett and Chuck Fuller as the newest members of its growing faculty.... Continue Reading »

A pastor friend was telling me about his arrival at his first church after seminary. In school, he was a stellar student, making A's regularly, writing brilliant theological essays, and learning to parse Greek verbs like a native. But... Continue Reading »

After a Google search led Shur Gopal to North Greenville University in 2001, he began a nine-year quest to become a U.S. citizen. On June 8, in Charleston, the United States granted citizenship to the Madras, India, native. Some... Continue Reading »

FRED KAIGLER began duties as pastor of Denny Terrace Baptist Church, Columbia, on June 1. He and his wife, Pat, have four grown children.   Terry Pleasant TERRY E PLEASANT began duties as senior pastor of Little Mountain Baptist... Continue Reading »

They volunteered to die. The elderly men and women in this famine-wracked West African community knew there was simply not enough food to go around. Unwilling to watch their families starve to death, some made a choice: They would... Continue Reading »