The Baptist Courier

First Baptist Church, Pacolet, celebrated Carl Rogers Day Feb. 22.... Continue Reading »

I encourage churches to teach Dave Ramsey's Financial Peace University. Our church, Redd's Branch Baptist Church, Aiken, completed our first class the week after Christmas 2008. If taught in consecutive weeks, a class would finish in 13 weeks (91... Continue Reading »

Pinewood Baptist Church (Santee Association) will soon officially turn 100 years old. While our yearlong centennial celebration has been very exciting thus far, the best is yet to come.... Continue Reading »

There are so many things wrong with the world today. Where do we start to look for change? We are to start with ourselves.... Continue Reading »

These are the things that happen when God comes to church, and he was definitely in attendance Jan. 25 at Whitefield Baptist Church in Belton. Charles Strickland, Whitefield's pastor since 2007, said that Sunday began like any other. The... Continue Reading »

With the whimsically titled book ?Orchids in a Jelly Jar,? May Bailey Dixon tells the story, by way of letters to home, of a missionary couple serving in a foreign land. The letters span the entire 30-plus years she... Continue Reading »

On Feb. 19, Billy Mew, director of missions for Barnwell-Bamberg Baptist Association, was given a lively send-off at a surprise retirement banquet at Double Pond Baptist Church in Barnwell County.... Continue Reading »

The Taylors Free Medical Clinic is hosting a benefit on April 4 at the Greenville Downtown Jetport. The event will begin at 6:30 p.m. and will include a barbecue dinner and bluegrass music.... Continue Reading »

Major General Douglas L. Carver, chaplain for the U.S. Army and chief of chaplains, has issued a "Proclamation of Prayer and Fasting," to fellow chaplains to be observed April 8.... Continue Reading »

Greenville Baptist Association has collected previously worn prom dresses to donate to junior and senior high school girls in Lee County, Va., one of the five poorest areas in the nation.... Continue Reading »

The members of Sandy Run Baptist Church, Hampton, held an emotional groundbreaking ceremony on March 8. Sixteen months after the church's 103-year-old sanctuary was destroyed by fire, members held a worship service in the social hall that survived the... Continue Reading »

Four prominent South Carolina Baptists ? Jim Austin, South Carolina Baptist Convention executive director-treasurer; Rudy Gray, SCBC president; Hal Lane, a trustee of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention; and Joe Mack, director of... Continue Reading »