The Baptist Courier

North Greenville University is winding down a summer of hosting Centrifuge, a youth camp sponsored by LifeWay Christian Resources of the Southern Baptist Convention, and M-Fuge, a sister camp that adds missions involvement to the camp experience.... Continue Reading »

For one week in mid-June, nine Lexington County residents put feet to Philadelphia's nickname: the ?City of Brotherly Love.? Could a group of such modest size leave even a tiny mark on the Pennsylvania city of about 3 million?... Continue Reading »

Compensation for full-time Southern Baptist pastors is rising slightly faster than inflation, but the mounting cost of benefits is forcing churches to provide fewer pastors with medical insurance.... Continue Reading »

TransformationalChurch.com is live. Last winter, LifeWay announced Transformational Church, a new ministry focus and initiative based on one of the largest and most significant research projects ever conducted on the American church.... Continue Reading »

The handbell ringers of Ashley River Baptist Church, Charleston, launched a weeklong mission trip June 19, fulfilling a challenge that began four months ago on another continent.... Continue Reading »

Block parties, festivals and other evangelistic events are essential ingredients for effective churches, according a study by the Scarborough Center for Baptist Church Planting at Southwestern Seminary in conjunction with the North American Mission Board.... Continue Reading »

Robert Phillips Dukes Sr., 78, of North Charleston, a retired Lowcountry pastor, died June 18, 2010.... Continue Reading »

A group of 13 adults and youth from West Side Baptist Church, West Columbia, went to Iquitos, Peru, June 3-12. The group traveled by boat six hours down the Amazon River to the village of Huanta, which served as... 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 »

My ?Great Commission resurgence? came in a 1998 seminar at the South Carolina Baptist Convention church I pastored. ? Since 1998, I have sensed that the most practical way for disciples to advance the Great Commission is by following... 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 »

Don Matthews pointed to a white physician's coat and an old-fashioned medical bag as he began talking about the South Carolina Baptist Convention's Church Health Assessment and Mobilization Planning Strategy (CHAMPS) ? an ?initiative to assist the local church... Continue Reading »