The Baptist Courier

South Carolina Baptists gave $3.9 million to the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering for North American Missions in 2008, placing the Palmetto State squarely among the top 10 givers among all states.... Continue Reading »

The good news raced across Louisville like a thoroughbred at Churchill Downs June 20 when 3,000 Southern Baptist volunteers braved 95-degree temperatures for Crossover ?09, an evangelistic effort prior to the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting.... Continue Reading »

Year-to-date contributions through the Southern Baptist Convention's Cooperative Program are 2.57 percent below the same time frame last year and 2.40 percent off budget for 2009. As of June 30, the year-to-date total of $150,583,883 for Cooperative Program missions... Continue Reading »

Oldest BP articles now available online Baptist Press articles dating to 1948 now are available online in a searchable PDF format following a two-year digitization project by the Southern Baptist Historical Library and Archives. About 8,000 articles on 66,000... Continue Reading »

Not your typical after-school program. One day every week, for nine weeks this spring, a group of Vermont high school students shuffled into a youth center to participate in a partially taxpayer-funded program with a specific purpose. And it... Continue Reading »

Apalache Baptist Church, Greer, held groundbreaking May 17 for a Christian life center. The facility will be more than 19,000 square feet and will include a gymnasium, commercial kitchen, education space and a fellowship hall that will seat approximately... Continue Reading »

?Living Proof Live,? a two-day video simulcast presentation with inspirational writer and speaker Beth Moore, will be held Aug. 28-29 at First Baptist Church, Simpsonville.... Continue Reading »

At a time when many churches arguably shift away from Sunday evening emphases, North Anderson Baptist Church, Anderson, has enjoyed success with a small group focus designed to grow disciples.... Continue Reading »

South Carolina Baptists are invited to meet with Jim Austin, executive director-treasurer of the South Carolina Baptist Convention, to discuss statewide Baptist work at six regional listening sessions.... Continue Reading »

Rich McLawhorn, pastor of Garden City Baptist Church, has no doubt his church will rebound from a fire that engulfed its worship center and education building early Sunday morning, June 28.... Continue Reading »

?We are raising up a generation that is learning that it doesn't matter whether you are part of a church that has beautiful arches or one that meets at the golden arches [of McDonald's],? says Art Fulks, North American... Continue Reading »

On the second day of the Southern Baptist Pastors? Conference at the Kentucky Exposition Center in Louisville June 22, speakers exhorted pastors to lead with ?One Love,? ?One Spirit? and ?One Purpose.?... Continue Reading »