The Baptist Courier

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 »

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 »

Connie Maxwell Children's Home celebrated its 34th biennial alumni reunion recently on the main campus in Greenwood, where 600 alumni and family members shared stories that brought laughter and tears.... Continue Reading »

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 »

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 »

In November 2009, the WMU members of Brownsville Baptist Church, Pee Dee Association, were planning their annual meal for the shut-ins and talked about volunteering at a soup kitchen during the holidays. Church member Kitty Carabo spoke up and... 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 »

My guess is that my church is not the only one in the South Carolina Baptist Convention that has had to make some very difficult decisions in these tough economic times.... Continue Reading »

At 102 years old, Ruth Carlisle still knew the power of prayer. When one of the hospice workers tending to Carlisle told her about a grandchild who had been diagnosed in the womb with a serious birth defect, Carlisle... 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 »