The Baptist Courier

The 23rd annual ?Bring-a-Kid? race night at Darlington Raceway will be held Friday, May 8, with the running of the NASCAR Diamond Hill Plywood 200.... Continue Reading »

Mark Bordeaux MARK BORDEAUX was recently honored by Westside Baptist Church, Sumter, on his 10th anniversary as pastor. Hal Mayer, lead pastor at The Church at the Bay in Tampa, led in a roast of Bordeaux. “I am unworthy... Continue Reading »

Jim Austin, executive director-treasurer of the South Carolina Baptist Convention, was guest lecturer in a recent evangelism class at Charleston Southern University.... Continue Reading »

Dina Hair, executive director of Martha Franks Baptist Retirement Community, recently hosted a luncheon for a group of people who assisted with refurbishing the historical Villa and a guesthouse on campus.... Continue Reading »

The Coastal Educational Foundation of Coastal Carolina University has received a pledge of $25,000 from the recently organized Georgetown Baptist Historical Society to establish a church history fund.... Continue Reading »

When Lisa and David Barron's daughter Madison was born in 1994, Lisa assumed her precious little baby would ?one day grow into a little girl, then to sweet 16, on to a young lady and then to a woman.?... Continue Reading »

Ministers’ wives luncheon slated June 23-24 The Southern Baptist Convention Ministers’ Wives will give away 200 complimentary luncheon tickets to wives of seminary students when the group meets in conjunction with the annual gathering of the Southern Baptist Convention... Continue Reading »

For Fred Funk, a 1985 trip to Hattiesburg, Miss., for a stop on the old Tournament Players Series was just one more to a distant outpost on a professional golfer's lonely frontier. It was a scratch-and-claw existence back then... Continue Reading »

John Dill, director of missions, Saluda Baptist Association, said, ?When the word discipleship comes to mind, I think of David Blizzard.? Blizzard is the 20-year pastor at Oakdale Baptist Church, Townville, in the Upstate of South Carolina.... Continue Reading »

The Bangladeshi tribals left their shoes just outside the threshold and entered the small Baptist church with a genuine eagerness to learn. As they introduced themselves, they said not only their names but also noted when they had become... Continue Reading »

Four mission teams from North Greenville University plan to leave the country over spring break. ?I think the mission trips are going to give us some amazing opportunities to share the gospel,? said Allen McWhite, director of global missions.... Continue Reading »

Young people will not come to Southern Baptist Convention meetings to hear preachers put down what they?re doing, says SBC researcher Ed Stetzer. Ed Stetzer, president of LifeWay Research and missiologist in residence at LifeWay Christian Resources, said the... Continue Reading »