The Baptist Courier

Training church leaders has historically meant that a church leader ? a Sunday school teacher, for example ? would find a course that he or she wanted to take; leave home and go to, say, another church in that... Continue Reading »

In his blog, Albert Mohler called it the ?next step along a leftward progression set decades ago? and away from the exclusive claims of the Christian faith. Last month the Claremont School of Theology in California, a graduate school... Continue Reading »

Slide after slide, images on a PowerPoint presentation flashed across the screen; reflections of life in Guatemala, some fun and others simply heartbreaking. Five years after Hurricane Stan leveled Guatemala with 40-foot-high mudslides, burying homes and lives, where more... Continue Reading »

Carlisle Driggers, retired executive director of the South Carolina Baptist Convention, currently serves as interim pastor at Manley Memorial Baptist Church in Eatonton, Ga. The church is growing, and Driggers has led the church to see the need to... Continue Reading »

South Carolina Campers on Mission have had a busy spring, readying Ridgecrest Conference Center and a youth camp for summer residents. Now, as temperatures in the South hover in the 90s, the volunteers have pointed their RVs northeast, and... Continue Reading »

A growing number of pastors are being forced to leave their churches over what a South Carolina Baptist Convention official calls ?control issues.? In fact, said Monty Hale, the question of who is going to run the church has... Continue Reading »

First Baptist Church in Springdale, Ark., is suspending its national and international television broadcast to increase contributions through the Southern Baptist Convention's Cooperative Program by 25 percent. Ronnie Floyd, First Baptist's senior pastor and chairman of the Great Commission... Continue Reading »

Sixty percent of Mission:Dignity recipients are widows. One of four recipients is a pastor's widow age 85 or older. Through its Mission:Dignity ministry, GuideStone Financial Resources assists retired Southern Baptist ministers and their wives who have significant financial needs.... Continue Reading »

More than 500 people gathered May 6 for a National Day of Prayer event at the Myrtle Beach Speedway. The prayer event was sponsored by Waccamaw Baptist Association in cooperation with the Myrtle Beach chapter of Raceway Ministries.... Continue Reading »

At a garbage dump on the northern outskirts of Port-au-Prince, gaunt and weary Haitians formed two lines to wait in the searing sun June 20 for Buckets of Hope to be unloaded from a truck near Eglise Baptiste Canaan.... Continue Reading »

Just like a boomerang that returns when it's thrown, LifeWay's ?Boomerang Express? Vacation Bible School curriculum returned, bringing new Christians and church prospects with it. ?Vacation Bible School consistently returns a statistic that says the number of professions of... Continue Reading »

DON CULBERTSON was called as pastor of Cedar Grove Baptist Church, Belton, on June 13 and was to begin duties July 4. A graduate of Fruitland Bible Institute, he received his doctor of ministry degree from Covington Seminary. He... Continue Reading »